Fibrolysin in Otology

Fibrolysin in Valvular Disease

Sir,?May I request you to kindly find a place for the following suggestion in your valuable journal, along with your own criticism on it Fibrolysin in Valvular Disease of Heart. Most of your readers are, I believe, aware of the varied uses to which Fibrolysin has been put, after it was placed 011 the market. So far as I am aware, nobody has, as yet, tried it in valvular disease of heart. Yet, s...

Otology

In the year 1887 I reported in this Journal1 a case of septic thrombosis and phlebitis of lateral sinus following middle-ear disease, which went on to a fatal termination, as all cases of the kind did at that period. But in the preceding year Mr. Victor Horsley had made the valuable suggestion 2 that ligature of the internal jugular vein might arrest the flow of septic material into the blood; ...

Practising otology and neuro-otology in Singapore.

Publication in otology and neuro-otology: dos and don'ts.

INTRODUCTION Medical publication continues to be important to academicians, physicians in private practice, researchers and corporate sponsors. This article provides valuable dos and don'ts for authors. MATERIALS AND METHODS Literature review and personal experience of the author. RESULTS Advice is provided for understanding the publishing world, the peer-review process, duplicate publicati...

Challenges in Neuro-Otology

This article provides an overview of the current methods of diagnosis and treatment of patients with vertigo, dizziness, or imbalance, as well as an analysis of ongoing problems besetting the field of neuro-otology. Aims and challenges are also described with the hope of stimulating basic and clinical research on these very frequent symptoms. Vertigo and dizziness are among the most frequent sy...