Objective: Childhood onset speech fluency disorder (stuttering) is a communication disorder beginning in childhood, and is characterised by interruption to speech flow, sound prolongations and pauses produced by repetition of a particular sound or word. The aim of this study was to investigate the sociodemographic characteristics, comorbid psychiatric diagnoses and other variab...

Objective: To evaluate the benefits of a contralateral hearing aid on expressive and receptive language development and auditory perception performance over a 36-month post-surgical period in children implanted on a single side with a cochlear device for bilateral pre-lingual profound sensorineural hearing loss.

Methods: Seventy-five patients with idiop...

Objective: Rhinoplasty is done to improve the morphology of the nose whilst also restoring its physiological function. Currently it is possible to perform rhinoplasty and endoscopic sinus surgery simultaneously. The need has therefore arisen to evaluate anatomical variation within the nose and paranasal sinuses in symptom-free patients who are scheduled for rhinoplasty. Coronal...

Objective: The aim is to share our experience of the clinical features and important issues encountered in diagnosing and treating multiple head and neck schwannoma cases seen at our centre, all of which went on to have surgical treatment.

Methods: This was a retrospective review of the medical records of cases over an 11-year period (2007–2018) diagnos...

Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate any possible effects of chronic otitis media (COM), with or without accompanying cholesteatoma, on bone conduction thresholds (BCT).

Methods: A total of 112 cases who underwent surgery for unilateral COM between 2006 and 2014 were enrolled in the study. Eighty cases had no cholesteatoma (Group 1). Thirty-t...

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the association between subjective and objective masculine vocal quality in hormone-naïve trans-male individuals.

Methods: Twenty-seven hormone-naïve trans-male individuals were recruited for the study. All the study participants had applied to undergo the gender transition process and been referred to ...

The author reports on a case of relapsing polychondritis in which partial insertion of a cochlear implant has been successful. A woman with known relapsing polychondritis gave a history of increasingly severe auditory loss of sensorineural type occurring bilaterally. Previous repeated treatments with corticosteroids and immunosuppressive medications had been attempted. A right-sided cochlear im...