To examine and identify the changing pattern of published articles in the otology literature over the past several decades. We used a variety of search engines available through PubMed.gov based on key words in the following categories: diagnosis, diagnostic tools, and therapeutic tools. The number of searchable key words increased from 1945 to the present. Overall, there has been a major shift...

Introduction There is limited evidence regarding the quality of otolaryngology residency programs in Iran. Regarding this, the present study aimed to assess some aspects of otolaryngology residency program in the field of otology in Iran based on the perspectives of faculty members and graduates.   Materials and Methods: This study was conducted on 105 recent graduates and 30 faculty members an...

ERRATUM article Front. Neurol., 18 July 2023Sec. Neuro-Otology Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.1254802

was marked, and gave the impression of a large vessel. In the three boys' cases?aged respectively six, ten and eleven years? nasal obstruction, with enlarged tonsils and adenoids, existed. In one of the boys the pulsation was bilateral and very marked, communicating a heaving impulse to the left tonsil, which was hypertrophied. Connal reminds us that most observers have ascribed the pulsation t...

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...

THIs British Council publication shows clearly, first, that otological research is in a very active state in the United Kingdom, and second, that the no-man's-land of the inner ear is at last being penetrated. Much of the research is now bear.ng fruit in the sense that many of the results are now applicable to clinical medicine. To understand hearing and equilibration fully it is necessary to e...