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The European TINNET COST Action BM1306

1 January 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Tinnitus
Winfried Schlee describes how a major European funding award is bringing together experts who are committed to collectively developing a better understanding of tinnitus. This work is vital if we are to pioneer effective treatments for the condition in its...

Clinical Otology, Fourth Edition

1 May 2015 | | Otology
Seven years after publication of the third edition, this latest edition of Clinical Otology brings the reader right up to date with developments within this constantly evolving field. Maintaining the same format as the previous edition, it concentrates on four...

Scientific Foundations of Audiology: Perspectives from Physics, Biology, Modeling and Medicine

1 March 2018 | | Audiology - Diagnostic, Audiology - Adult, Otology
Scientific Foundations of Audiology – Perspectives from Physics, Biology, Modeling and Medicine is a unique textbook which discusses a wide range of state-of-the-art topics in hearing, vestibular and brain science. The editors purport that this book is geared towards doctoral...
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Anatomy and Physiology of Speech and Hearing

27 February 2020 | | Vestibular Disorders, Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
This American book is written for students “in the field of communication sciences and disorders”, however, this is a very useful text for anyone wanting to understand the underpinning science behind speech, swallowing and hearing and balance. The book is...
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Molecular and genetic nature of skull base tumours drives management

3 May 2022 | | Skull Base Surgery | Adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma, Chordoma chondrosarcoma, Endolymphatic sac tumor, Granular cell tumor, Langerhans cell histocytosis, Meningioma, Neuropathology, Papillary craniopharyngioma, Paraganglioma, Pituicytoma, Pituitary adenoma, Pituitary blastoma, Schwannoma, Skull base tumors, Solitary fibrous tumor, Spindle cell oncocytoma
This article reviews the molecular basis and paradigm shift in the diagnosis and management of skull base tumours. It is now known that the phenotype of meningiomas is influenced by their genotype. Endolymphatic sac tumours are observed in up to...

Evolution of salivary gland pathology classifications

8 January 2024 | | Head and Neck, Rhinology / Sinus | Classification, Genetic alterations, Salivary gland cancers, Salivary gland pathologies, Salivary gland tumours
Targeted therapies for malignant salivary gland tumours have changed the treatment paradigm and therapy approaches. Better outcomes are now feasible. Choosing the treatment method requires a clear classification of the lesions. The authors of this paper reviewed the World Health...

Harnessing head and neck cancer genomics for personalised medicine

1 March 2016 | | ENT, Head and Neck
Luc Morris updates us on the future of cancer diagnosis and treatment, which lies in “personalised oncology”, where specific molecular alterations of each tumour will be identified, and matched with actionable alterations in existing therapies, ushering in the era of...

Database WG2. The Tinnitus Patient Database in the TINNET COST Action BM1306

1 January 2016 | | Audiology - Adult, Tinnitus
Berthold Langguth describes an innovative project that is creating the world’s largest multi-national patient database containing standardised information on tinnitus and medical history, otological examination and psycho-acoustic measures of tinnitus. A challenge for tinnitus treatment and tinnitus research is the...

Physician illness

1 September 2018 | | ENT
Getting in the zone, recognising our personal stress limits and looking after ourselves are vital components in our efforts to stay healthy advises Abbie Lane, after almost a generation of de-stressing others. They say a rugby player like Brian O’Driscoll...

The structure and function of DNA

1 November 2014 | | ENT
DNA structure and replication Genetic information within multicellular organisms, including man, is stored in molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which reside within the chromosomes of each cell nucleus. A DNA molecule consists of two very long chains, or strands, of...

From India to Bonnie Scotland

1 March 2018 | | ENT, Paediatric ENT, Auditory Implants
Not many people know that one of the UK’s first cochlear implant surgeons was Raj Singh, OBE, an Indian immigrant whose passions for otology and technology led him to found the Scottish Cochlear Implant Programme, and the Help to Hear...

Chronic rhinosinusitis management: back to the future?

1 July 2016 | | ENT, Rhinology / Sinus
Immunology is a dim and distant medical school memory to many ENT surgeons, but the increasingly complex immunology of chronic rhinosinusitis is fascinating (honestly!). Medical management options in CRS no longer just involves saline and steroids, and we need to...