OTOLOGY

Otology

In the year 1887 I reported in this Journal1 a case of septic thrombosis and phlebitis of lateral sinus following middle-ear disease, which went on to a fatal termination, as all cases of the kind did at that period. But in the preceding year Mr. Victor Horsley had made the valuable suggestion 2 that ligature of the internal jugular vein might arrest the flow of septic material into the blood; ...

Publication in otology and neuro-otology: dos and don'ts.

INTRODUCTION Medical publication continues to be important to academicians, physicians in private practice, researchers and corporate sponsors. This article provides valuable dos and don'ts for authors. MATERIALS AND METHODS Literature review and personal experience of the author. RESULTS Advice is provided for understanding the publishing world, the peer-review process, duplicate publicati...

Practising otology and neuro-otology in Singapore.

Otology versus Otosociology

Otology concerns the biological study of ear alterations and diseases, solely. So, the diagnosis of audiovestibular diseases tends to be idiopathic or is based on theoretical concepts such as idiopathic sudden deafness, Ménière disease, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, tinnitus, hyperacusis, or idiopathic facial paralysis. The treatment for these pathologies is symptomatic. Otosociology ta...

Laryngology and Otology

was marked, and gave the impression of a large vessel. In the three boys' cases?aged respectively six, ten and eleven years? nasal obstruction, with enlarged tonsils and adenoids, existed. In one of the boys the pulsation was bilateral and very marked, communicating a heaving impulse to the left tonsil, which was hypertrophied. Connal reminds us that most observers have ascribed the pulsation t...