Proptosis: The ENT Surgeon’s Perspective

Should ENT surgeons undertake pituitary surgery?

Pituitary surgery was first carried out at the turn of the century. Victor Horsley in his address to the 74th Annual meeting of the British Medical Association, published in 1906, made brief reference to 10 cases he had operated upon by what is assumed to have been a sub-temporal approach. Schloffer published an article in 1907 describing a per nasal trans-sphenoidal operation and in 1909 Oskar...

Should ENT surgeons undertake pituitary surgery ?

Pituitary surgery was first carried out at the turn of the century. Victor Horsley in his address to the 74th Annual meeting of the British Medical Association, published in 1906, made brief reference to 10 cases he had operated upon by what is assumed to have been a sub-temporal approach. Schloffer published an article in 1907 describing a per nasal trans-sphenoidal operation and in 1909 Oskar...

Re: The role of ENT surgeons in snoring assessment: some prospective preliminary evidence.

OBJECTIVES To determine (i) the prevalence of unsuspected upper aerodigestive tract disease in snorers, (ii) the diagnostic yield of routine flexible endoscopy and (iii) the relationship between symptoms of upper aerodigestive tract disease and examination findings in snorers. DESIGN Prospective analytical cohort study. SETTING Snoring clinic in Secondary Care Otolaryngology centre. PARTI...

Netherton syndrome - Why ENT surgeons should be aware of this rare disease - report of a case

BACKGROUND Comèl-Netherton syndrome is an inherited ichthyosis that is associated with highly impaired epidermal cornification and barrier function. Literature sparsely reports of the occurrence of early onset skin cancer in people with Netherton syndrome. To the best of our knowledge the suitability of the severely altered skin in patients with Netherton syndrome for techniques of facial plast...

Unilateral proptosis in the newborn.