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Introduction: Acute vertigo presents a diagnostic challenge in the acute stroke setting. Accurate differentiation between a posterior circulation stroke and benign peripheral vestibular disorders is critical for appropriate, timely management. This c...

Post-laryngectomy salivary leak and pharyngocutaneous fistula (PCF) are recognised complications that prolong hospitalisation, delay adjuvant treatment and, in severe cases, risk major vessel exposure; current management relies on conservative measur...

Background/Objectives: To characterize the demographics, inpatient resource utilization, and coded outcomes of pediatric vestibular schwannoma hospitalizations using a national database. Because the Kids’ Inpatient Database records discharges r...

Background/Objectives: Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are used in clinical education and patient communication. Concordance with American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation clinical practice guidelines (CPG) and over...

Background: Respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartoma (REAH) and seromucinous hamartoma (SH) are uncommon benign epithelial lesions of the sinonasal tract. Their clinical and endoscopic appearance may overlap with inflammatory nasal polyps, and a...

Starting 1 September 2026, the Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance Medicine will adopt the abbreviation J [...]

Background/Objectives: Primary thyroid lymphoma accounts for approximately 0.2–2% of thyroid malignancies. Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL), an aggressive large B-cell neoplasm with plasma-cell differentiation and frequent loss of conventional B-ce...

Patulous Eustachian Tube (PET) is a rare otologic disorder, which is caused by abnormal patency of the Eustachian tube. Rapid weight loss is a recognized predisposing factor for PET potentially because of the reduction in peritubal adipose tissue tha...

Background/Objectives: Tinnitus can have an adverse impact on some patients’ lives, affecting the daily functioning for a proportion of patients. In recent years, audiologists in Singapore who are specialised in tinnitus and hyperacusis rehabil...

Objectives: To describe a rare case of delayed diagnosis of a subglottic foreign body (FB) in an adult, resulting in subglottic stenosis, and to evaluate the effectiveness of Suspension Microlaryngoscopy (SML) as a minimally invasive technique for it...

Background/Objectives: As patients increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) for Chronic Rhinosinusitis (CRS) diagnosis, surgical candidacy, and perioperative care, evaluating the accuracy of LLM-generated information against established clin...

Background: The management of pediatric microtia and congenital hearing loss typically necessitates coordinated multidisciplinary input. Traditional fragmented care pathways across multiple specialties may contribute to delayed diagnosis and treatmen...

Background/Objectives: Nasopharyngeal cancer generally has a good survival rate with chemoradiotherapy, but a significant side effect is irreversible hearing loss, for which there is currently no preventive intervention. Given that dexamethasone (Dex...

Background: The current literature suggests that screening for symptoms of pediatric obstructive sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is low despite guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics to screen all children at well visits. Specific factor...

The work of anesthesiologists–intensivists, critical care specialists, and medical emergency teams is multifaceted and complex, with airway management representing a cornerstone and a common denominator of many procedures and interventions. Tra...

Positional obstructive sleep apnea (POSA) is a subtype of obstructive sleep apnea in which the apnea–hypopnea index (AHI) is significantly greater in the supine position than in non-supine positions. However, POSA remains underrecognized and la...

Horizontal nystagmus is still commonly interpreted at the bedside through a pragmatic peripheral-versus-central dichotomy. Although this heuristic is often clinically useful, it may be misleading because distributed brainstem–cerebellar disorde...

Background and Clinical Significance: Localized amyloidoma rarely affects the tongue base, a site far less commonly involved than the larynx. When it does occur at this location, the clinical and radiological presentation can closely mimic oropharyng...

Background/Objectives: Hyperventilation-induced nystagmus (HVIN) has been described as a sensitive clinical sign in vestibular schwannoma (VS), potentially reflecting a reversible conduction block in partially demyelinated vestibular nerve fibers. Ho...

Background/Objectives: Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is a rare pathology that arises in the context of a known or suspected cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) leak. A key symptom of SIH is an orthostatic headache; however, additional neurologic...

Background/Objectives: Individuals with listening difficulties (LiD) report problems understanding speech despite normal hearing sensitivity. This study investigated how speech characteristics (clarity, speaking rate, and loudness) influence subjecti...

Background/Objectives: Patient understanding during healthcare appointments is essential for positive health outcomes and effective healthcare delivery. There is limited research exploring patient understanding for patients with swallowing difficulti...

Background: Endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) is a core operative technique in otolaryngology and is associated with a steep learning curve due to complex sinonasal anatomy, limited depth perception with two-dimensional endoscopy, and the requirement fo...

Background/Objectives: Spatial release from masking (SRM) refers to the improvement in speech understanding that occurs when a target talker is spatially separated from competing speech. Although normal-hearing (NH) listeners benefit substantially fr...

Background/Objectives: Nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) is prevalent in Southeast Asia, Southern China and North Africa. Up to 46% of NPC patients undergoing cisplatin chemoradiation treatment experience irreversible hearing loss. Prestin is a motor prote...

Background: Tracheal rupture is a rare, life-threatening condition that may follow blunt trauma, intubation, and, less commonly, esophageal instrumentation. The diagnosis may be challenging due to the subtle, delayed, and wide variety of symptoms. We...

Background: Localized susceptibility data supports development of a pediatric-specific antibiogram to guide empiric therapy for ear infections within the British Columbia community setting. The aim of the current student was to construct an antibiogr...

Background/Objectives: Traditional demonstrations are a common way to teach clinical skills, but they often feel unstructured and inconsistent. Peyton’s four-step approach provides a more organized, student-focused method that might help learne...

Background/Objectives: This prospective study aimed to assess noise levels in otolaryngology operating rooms (OR), explore noise variation across subspecialties, and examine the correlation between noise, verbal communication, and surgery complexity....

Background/Objectives: Three types of neuroplasticity that have been reported following hearing aid uptake include: cross-modal reorganization, homologue shifts, and neighbouring region restructuring. However, such evidence primarily stems from cochl...

Background/Objectives: Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is crucial for mitochondrial bioenergetics and redox balance and has been studied in hearing disorders. Its clinical use ranges from genetic mitochondrial deafness to acquired hearing loss associated with o...

Background/Objectives: Despite the high prevalence (around 4.1–37.2%) and highly debilitating adverse impact, there has been inconclusive evidence regarding the efficacy of treatment for tinnitus management, especially for those patients with t...

Background/Objectives: Dizziness is a symptom of many disorders across a wide range of etiologies. If dizzy patients are seen for vestibular evaluation with an audiologist and no vestibular reason for the patient’s dizziness is found, the medic...

Background/Objectives: The vestibular labyrinth is classically viewed as a sensor of low-frequency head motion—linear acceleration for the otoliths and angular velocity/acceleration for the semicircular canals. However, there is now substantial...

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Background: Paragangliomas of the head and neck are rare, benign and indolent to slow-growing tumors. Not all tumors require immediate active intervention, and surveillance is a viable management strategy in a large proportion of cases. Treatment dec...

Background: Narrow duplicated internal auditory canal (IAC) is a rare congenital malformation frequently associated with severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss. Case Presentation: We present a one-year-old girl with bilateral narrow duplicated...

Objective: This study aims to examine the frequency of emergency department (ED) visits and the occurrence of postoperative nasal symptoms (PNSs) following endonasal skull base surgery (EESBS). Methods: A retrospective cohort study of patients who un...

Background: Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL) is an abrupt unilateral hearing loss of unknown origin. Combination therapy with hyperbaric oxygen (HBO), systemic steroids (SS), and prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) has been used in Japan; ho...

Background/Objectives: This narrative review aims to evaluate the use of pupillometry as an objective measure of auditory perception and listening effort across the lifespan. Specifically, it synthesizes research examining pupillary responses in indi...

Background/Objectives: The high prevalence of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) poses a considerable burden on healthcare systems, with an estimated annual cost of 2 billion dollars per year in the United States. The results of previous net...

Background and Objectives: Speech-in-noise testing is essential for evaluating functional hearing abilities in clinical practice. Although the Quick Speech-in-Noise test (QuickSIN) is widely used, no equivalent tool existed for European Portuguese. T...

Background and Clinical Significance: Otitis media with effusion (OME) is characterized by persistent middle ear effusion without acute infection. Type 2 inflammation, mediated by IL-4 and IL-13 signaling via the IL-4Rα receptor, has been impli...

Background/Objectives: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is characterized by calcification and ossification of ligaments and tendons, primarily affecting the spine. While often asymptomatic, DISH in the cervical spine can cause dysphagi...

Background/Objectives: Head and neck cancers significantly affect patients’ functional and psychosocial well-being. Multidisciplinary tumor boards have a central role in optimizing treatment strategies, but the relationship between tumor charac...

Background/Objectives: Hearing loss is a disorder that develops because of being exposed to high noise levels affecting the quality of life among affected individuals. A review of the literature was conducted to explore the prevalence of hearing loss...

Background/Objectives: Maxillofacial volumetric deficits are often treated using structural fat grafting with autologous free fat grafts. The buccal fat pad (BFP) is commonly used as a pedicled flap for limited oral cavity applications. This study ex...

Background/Objectives: Conductive hearing loss (CHL) recurrence or persistence after stapes surgery is often due to prosthesis displacement or malfunction, with malleus fixation being a less common cause. While persistent CHL linked to malleus fixati...

Background: The posterior labyrinth is particularly vulnerable to ischemic injury. Vertigo can occasionally be the only presenting symptom of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Acute Bilateral Vestibular Neuropathy (ABVN) is an extremely rare conditi...

The aim of this study article is to better understand patient outcomes following simple nasal fracture realignment, comparing outcomes when performed under LA versus GA. A systematic search of the evidence base is conducted. Data extraction and docum...