Oxford Textbook of Otolaryngology

Professor John S Phillips is the managing editor of the Oxford Textbook of Otolaryngology. John is a Consultant ENT Surgeon at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; and Honorary Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of East Anglia. John has a subspecialist interest in Otology and Neurotology.Mr Steven Powell is a Consultant ENT Surgeon at the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Steven has a subspecialist interest in Paediatric Otolaryngology.Mr Raj Bhalla is a Consultant ENT Surgeon at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. Raj is a has a subspecialist interest in Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery.Professor Vinidh Paleri is a Consultant ENT Surgeon at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London; and Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at the Institute of Cancer Research, London. Vin has a subspecialist interest in Head and Neck Surgery and Thyroid Surgery.

• 1. Introduction 1: Peter Chapman: Being a good doctor 2: Martyn Patel: The rights of the patient 3: Simon Fletcher: Anaesthetics for otolaryngology 4: Andrew Thamboo: Practicing otolaryngology in the COVID era 2. Otology and Audiology 5: Gemma Crundwell: Clinical and audiological assessment of hearing 6: Don McFerran: Tinnitus and disorders of sound tolerance 7: Peter Rea and Joel Goebel: Vertigo 8: Phil Clamp: Otalgia and otorrhoea 9: Holger Sudhoff: Aural fullness 10: Richard Irving: Facial nerve palsy 11: Ted Meyer: Sensorineural hearing loss 12: Paul Merkus and Thade Goderie: Conductive (or mixed) hearing loss with an intact tympanic membrane 13: Pablo Reyes and Miguel Vaca González: Abnormalities of the external auditory canal 14: Louisa Murdin: Meniere's disease and vestibular migraine 15: Jeffery Sharon and Danielle Gillard: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo 16: Neil Donnelly and Patrick Axon: Audiovestibular implants 17: Peter Webber: Noise induced hearing loss 18: Walter Kutz and Daniel Killeen: Lateral skull base disease 19: Neil Baillie: Cholestetoma 20: Chris Aldren: Stapes surgery 21: Chris Aldren: Ossiculoplasty 22: Matthew Clark: Tympanoplasty 23: Nicola Quaranta: Temporal bone trauma 24: Emma Stapleton and Glen Watson: Necrotising otitis externa 3. Rhinology 25: Andrew Swift: Clinical assessment of the nose and paranasal sinuses 26: Carl Philpott: Disturbances of olfaction 27: Raj Bhalla and John Phillips: Epistaxis 28: Tim Woolford: Septal perforation 29: Amin Javer: Rhinorrhoea 30: Isma Iqbal: Post-nasal drip 31: Iain Hathorn: Headache and facial pain 32: Ashok Rokade: Epiphora 33: Peter Andrews: Nasal obstruction 34: Catherine Rennie: Nasal crusting 35: Fazil Apaydin: Rhinoplasty 36: Isam Alobid: Acute sinus disease 37: Claire Hopkins: Endoscopic sinus surgery 38: Richard Harvey: Chronic sinus disease 39: Carl Snyderman: Sinonasal tumours 40: Ozcan Cakmak and Mahmoud Daoud: Surgical facial rejuvenation 41: Alwyn D Souza and Chew Lip Ng: Non-surgical facial rejuvenation 42: Richard Douglas: Allergy 43: Simon Gane: Heriditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia 44: Shahz Ahmed: Endoscopic approaches to the anterior skull base 45: Caroline Smith, Omar Pathmanaban, and Raj Bhalla: Anterior skull base reconstruction 4. Head and Neck Surgery 46: Vinidh Paleri: Approach to the patient presenting with head and neck symptoms 47: Yakubu Karagama: Dysphonia 48: Somiah Siddiq and Reza Nouraie: Dysphagia 49: Jenny Montgomery: Sore throat 50: Cameron Davies-Husband and David Walker: Neck mass 51: Khalid Ghuffoor and Jahangir Ahmed: Snoring and sleep apnoea 52: Navin Mani and Sofia Clegg: Acute and subacute airway compromise 53: Jai Manick: Head and neck trauma 54: Stefano Fedele: Oral ulcer 55: David Hamilton and Anna Thompson: Laryngeal precancer and cancer 56: Zaid Awad and Dorothy Gujral: Oropharyngeal cancer 57: Deepa Nair: Oral precancer and cancer 58: Nitin Pagedar: Salivary gland tumours 59: Neil Sharma: Thyroid cancer 60: Laura Warner: Pharyngeal pouch and hypopharynx cancer 61: Shree Bhide and Pablo Nencares: Nasopharyngeal cancer 62: Zi-Wei Liu: Neck space infections 63: Mimi Irune: Parathyroid disease 64: Vijay Haribakti: Reconstruction of the head and neck 65: Shahid Iqbal: Non-surgical treatments for head and neck cancer 66: Jo Patterson and Sarah Stephen: Rehabilitation of the head and neck cancer patient 67: Samantha Hassid: Benign neck lumps 68: Max Robinson: Head and neck pathology 69: Derfel ap Dafydd: Head and neck imaging 70: Asit Arora: Tracheostomy care 71: Kate Heathcote: Phonosurgery 72: Julia Selby: Movement disorders of the Larynx 5. Paediatrics 73: Hasnaa Ismail Koch and Andrea Burgess: Assessment of the neonate, infant, child and adolescent 74: Sanjay Parikh and Sean Evans: Acute airway compromise 75: Kate Stephenson and Michael Kuo: Snoring and Noisy Breathing 76: Nico Jonas and Alex Millington: Sore throat 77: Su De and Ravi Sharma: The runny nose 78: Neil Chadha: Blocked nose 79: Scott Rickert and Eadaoin O'Cathain: Dysphonia 80: Michelle Wyatt and Vicky Thorpe: Dysphagia 81: Haytham Kubba and Tash Kunanandam: Neck masses, cysts, and sinuses 82: Neil Bateman: Drooling and salivary glands 83: Ian Bruce, Jaya Nichani, and Adam Walker: Paediatric hearing loss 84: Ricky Pal and Mark Felton: The painful or discharging ear 85: Alok Sharma and Gundula Thiel: The dizzy child 86: Ben Hartley and Claire Fauenfelder: Laryngotracheal Stenosis 87: Keith Trimble: Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy 88: Mat Daniel: Otitis Media with Effusion 89: Louisa Ferguson: Cleft and craniofacial abnormalities 90: Ravi Thevasagayam and Sanj Gupta: Common paediatric ENT syndromes

This is quite a remarkable book, to prove such an easy read, rather than a dipping-into reference (however good the index does prove to be) and well meets the challenge set by the senior author.