Blackwell Publishing Ltd., United States of America, 2007
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121 p.: tab. ; fig. ; bibl. ; ind.
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Synopsis
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The fi rst edition of this small volume, The ABC of Ear, Nose and
Throat, was derived 25 years ago from a series of articles published
at that time in the British Medical Journal to present the substance
of this important speciality in an easily assimilable form for a wide
readership of general practitioners, medical students, nurses and all
those many sprouting paramedical specialties involved with speech,
hearing, and head and neck disorders. This target readership has not
changed, but the specialty, like most others, has expanded and de-
veloped subspecialties in all its divisions.
Otology has changed from the exciting renaissance of microscopic
middle ear work that began in the 1960s at the start of my personal
otological career, to the amazing developments that include cochlear
implantation for inner ear deafness, and neuro-otology has extended
from the management of peripheral labyrinthine disorders to em-
brace surgery within the base of the skull.
Rhinological change has brought us the endoscopic techniques
that have revolutionized treatment for paranasal sinus diseases, while
the management of throat malignancy has evolved out of all recog-
nition into today’s comprehensive management of head and neck
tumours.
It is entirely appropriate therefore that, for this expanded fi fth
edition, Patrick Bradley FRCSIr, FRCSEd, FRCSEng, MBA, as an
internationally recognized authority on head and neck diseases and
their treatment, should have become the joint editor, and that sev-
eral specialists, recognized as experts in various subspecialties, have
been enlisted to write about them.
The title has appositely reverted to its briefer, earlier one of ENT,
which is so quintessentially British and which trips much more read-
ily off the tongue than does otolaryngology.
