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Nasal allergies and OSA

4 July 2024 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
The first day of June is the meteorological start of summer. As a moderately wet spring slowly blurs to (a damp UK) summer, we can look forward to holidays in the countryside, enjoying the changing pollen seasons from tree to...

Primary ossicular chain reconstruction in open-cavity mastoidectomy

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
The authors performed a retrospective analysis of 21 patients who had undergone primary reconstruction of the ossicular chain during canal-wall-down mastoidectomy. The ossiculoplasty technique used consisted of removal of the malleus head and division of tensor tympani, and rotation of...

What works better for type 3 tympanoplasty?

1 January 2019 | | PORP, Type III tympanoplasty, incus, ossicular chain, ossiculoplasty
This is a systematic review comparing incus transposition (IT) and partial ossicular replacement prosthesis (PORP). There is a total of 14 articles, obtaining 1055 patients: 614 for the IT group and 441 for the PORP group. All included patients had...

Cell therapies for hearing loss

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Cell therapies could offer a way to repair damage to the auditory system and reverse many types of hearing loss. This article looks at the progress being made.

KTP laser in the office

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
KTP laser surgery offers a new way of selectively targeting microvasculature within laryngeal lesions and leaving normal surrounding tissues like epithelium and lamina propria intact – and thus preserving physiological phonation. This kind of selective photoangiolysis can be performed in...

Temporoparietal fascia flap for blind sac closure

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
Chronic ear disease can be challenging to manage and difficult for patients to live with. In this article, the authors describe their technique for otomastoid obliteration and blind sac closure of the external canal allowing for a more tolerable situation...

What’s new in the cochlea?

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Prof Furness in this article rounds up the steps and leaps being made by the scientific community to develop therapies to support, rejuvenate and / or replace the cochlear structures. David’s electron microscope images of the cochlear structures are world...

Central auditory changes in SNHL

1 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
Robert Harrison discusses some of the most obvious ways in which cochlear hearing loss has central consequences. It is convenient to classify hearing loss according to the most obvious site of lesion, for example, conductive, cochlear, retro-cochlear, or central hearing...

Salivary duct clipping for drooling

1 November 2017 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Drooling can be a challenging problem to manage in paediatric ENT. The variety of medical and surgical treatments suggests that there is no gold standard treatment. Nicola Stobbs and Ravi Thevasagayam describe an approach to ligating the salivary ducts. Drooling...

Ossicular reconstruction

27 February 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Ossicular reconstruction often yields disappointing results, even for the most experienced and skilled of otologists. John Dornhoffer and David Walker explain that the most important determinant of outcome is the patient’s middle ear environment, and offer some valuable words of...

Role of interventional neuroradiology in otorhinolarygological pathology 
– a brief review

1 May 2014 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Neurotology
Introduction Since its advent in 1964 when Dotter percutaneously dilated a stenosed femoral artery [1], interventional radiology has undergone tremendous advancement in both imaging and devices that have enabled the operator (interventional radiologist) to access very distal small vasculature and...

German Society Annual Congress DGHNO-KHC 2024

8 May 2024 -11 May 2024
The 95th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (DGHNO-KHC) was a great success under the forward-looking motto ‘Crossing Borders’