Main description:

The long and eagerly awaited third edition of this popular and compact textbook is here.

Often labelled an "exam bible" in its previous editions, Key Topics in Otorhinolaryngology provides a concise yet comprehensive overview that clinical students and trainees alike can use. It will serve as an ideal introduction to ENT and also prove to be a valuable revision aid for ENT examinations.

Conceived and edited by three very knowledgeable and highly respected ENT surgeonsfrom the UK with a wealth of examining experience and an in-depth understanding of the British, European, and International examination formats and contents.

Key Features:

Contents organised alphabetically in manageable sized chapters, covering individual topics in a systematic style with great clarity.
Liberally updated to reflect new developments in the field - with 21 new chapters, and inclusive coverage of all sub-specialties in the discipline.
An ideal introduction to the specialty for medical students, and an accessible source of reference for general practitioners and junior doctors covering ENT.
It is insightful and succinct, whilst providing sufficient detail to be used as a valuable revision aid for those studying for post-graduate examinations in Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery.

Key Topics in Otolaryngology is certain to become a much-used reference for students, primary healtcare physicians and surgical trainees alike.

This book includes complimentary access to a digital copy on https://medone.thieme.com.

Contents:

1 Adenoids

2 Age-Associated Hearing Loss

3 Anaesthesia-General

4 Anaesthesia-Local

5 Anaesthesia-Sedation

6 Audit, Quality Improvement and Clinical Governance

7 Barotrauma

8 Caloric Tests

9 Cervical Lymphadenopathy

10 Cholesteatoma

11 Clinical Assessment of Hearing

12 Cochlear Implants

13 Congenital Hearing Disorders

14 Consent and Capacity

15 Cosmetic Surgery

16 Cough

17 Day Case ENT Surgery

18 Drooling

19 Epiglottitis

20 Epistaxis

21 Eponyms in ENT

22 Evidence-Based Medicine

23 Evoked Response Audiometry

24 Examination of the Ear

25 Examination of the Head and Neck

26 Examination of the Nose

27 Examinations in ENT

28 External Ear Conditions

29 Facial Nerve Palsy

30 Fistula

31 Foreign Bodies in ENT

32 Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

33 Globus Pharyngeus

34 Halitosis

35 Headache and Facial Pain

36 Hearing Aids

37 Hearing Loss-Acquired

38 HIV in Otolaryngology

39 Hypopharyngeal Carcinoma

40 Imaging in ENT

41 Impedance Audiometry

42 Labyrinthitis

43 Laryngeal Carcinoma

44 Laryngectomy

45 Lasers in ENT

46 Literature Review and Statistics

47 Mastoid Surgery

48 Medicolegal Aspects of ENT

49 Meniere's Disease

50 Nasal Reconstruction

51 Nasal Trauma

52 Nasopharyngeal Tumours

53 Neck Dissection

54 Neck Swellings

55 Neck Space Infection

56 Neck Trauma

57 Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

58 Non-Healing Nasal Granulomata

59 Non-Organic Hearing Loss

60 Nutrition in Head and Neck Cancer

61 Oral Cavity Carcinoma

62 Oral Lesions

63 Oropharyngeal Carcinoma

64 Otalgia

65 Otitis Externa

66 Otitis Media with Effusion

67 Otoacoustic Emissions

68 Otorrhoea

69 Otosclerosis

70 Ototoxicity

71 Paediatric Airway Problems

72 Paediatric Endoscopy

73 Paediatric Genetic Syndromes and Associations

74 Paediatric Hearing Assessment

75 Paediatric Nasal Obstruction

76 Papilloma of the Larynx

77 Parathyroid Disease

78 Perilymph and Labyrinthine Fistula

79 Pharyngeal Pouch

80 Pure-Tone Audiometry

81 Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer

82 Reconstructive Surgery

83 Rhinitis-Allergic

84 Rhinitis-Non-Allergic

85 Rhinoplasty

86 Rhinosinusitis-Appropriate Terminology

87 Rhinosinusitis-Acute

88 Rhinosinusitis-Chronic without Nasal Polyps

89 Rhinosinusitis-Chronic (with Nasal Polyps)

90 Rhinosinusitis-Complications

91 Rhinosinusitis-Fungal

92 Robots in ENT/Head and Neck Surgery

93 Salivary Gland Diseases

94 Salivary Gland Neoplasms

95 Septal Perforation

96 Sinonasal Tumours

97 Skin Cancer-Melanoma

98 Skin Cancer-Non-Melanoma

99 Smell and Taste Disorders

100 Snoring and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorder

101 Speech and Swallow Rehabilitation Following Head and Neck Surgery

102 Speech Audiometry

103 Speech and Language Therapy for Benign Voice Disorders

104 Stertor and Stridor

105 Sudden Hearing Loss

106 Suppurative Otitis Media-Acute

107 Suppurative Otitis Media-Chronic

108 Suppurative Otitis Media-Complications

109 Temporal Bone Cancer

110 Temporal Bone Fractures

111 Thyroid Disease-Benign

112 Thyroid Disease-Malignant

113 Tinnitus

114 Tonsil Disease

115 Tonsillectomy

116 Tracheostomy

117 Tympanoplasty

118 Tympanosclerosis

119 Vertigo

120 Vestibular Function Tests

121 Vestibular Schwannoma

122 Vocal Fold Paralysis

123 Voice Disorders