We should consider our patients as more than just cases. They are people whose lives will be forever impacted by nerve loss, who will have lifelong issues with eating, speaking, and expressing themselves.

We should consider our patients as more than just cases. They are people whose lives will be forever impacted by nerve loss, who will have lifelong issues with eating, speaking, and expressing themselves.
Scan the literature on transcanal endoscopic ear surgery (TEES) and you’ll find a host of benefits for the procedure when it is compared with its microscope-guided counterpart, including enhanced visualization, superior training, and reduced post-operative complications, to name just a few. Coupled with recent equipment advances, such as thinner, more flexible endoscopes and ones that combine cutting and suctioning for enhanced bleeding control, it’s clearly an exciting time for TEES.
Expansion laryngoplasty is a new, combined procedure that can treat both glottic and subglottic stenosis simultaneously. This is a small case series showing how to perform this surgery, as well as outcomes from 15 years.
The authors review their pediatric EESS technique in patients with intra-operative high flow cerebrospinal fluid leak, with a focus on details that differ from adult transsphenoidal surgery technique.
Current literature suggests that topical TXA could potentially be a useful adjunct in the management of anterior epistaxis.
What are the effects and outcomes of remote cochlear implant (CI) programming in terms of burden and costs, feasibility and satisfaction, and comparability to traditional in-person CI management, for patients and families within the adult and pediatric CI populations?
What is the potential value of a newly developed Parotidectomy Quality of Life Index (PQOL) in addressing the multidimensional nature of patient-centered outcomes from this procedure?
How might a recent Medicare policy proposal concerning off-label use of botulinum toxin injections affect patients with hemifacial spasm and facial dystonia?
What can physicians do to address a payor’s detrimental policy change regarding patient treatment, as demonstrated in a 2021 case impacting patients with postparalytic facial palsy?
Clinical trials focus on OTOF-associated hearing loss, but other genes identified as appealing next targets