About Book
With this sixth edition, the e book completes 22 years of ser-vice to its readers. The specialty of ENT, frequently known as otolaryngology or otorhinolaryngology has various into countless subspecialities of otology, otoneurology, rhinology, laryngology, bronchoesophagology, paediatric otolaryngology, cranium base surgery, and now rising subspeciality of neuro-rhinology the place the Genius tumours associated to cranium base are being dealt with by using endoscopic nasal approaches.
The boom in various branches owe their emergence to speedy strides being made in technological know-how such as imaging techniques from easy X-ray to CT, MRI, MR angiography, PET-CT and simultaneous PET-MRI.
The improvement of endoscopes from four mm to almost 1 mm with a variety of viewing angles, lasers, computer systems and miniature cameras which can be constant on the tip of the bendy endoscopes have further revolutionized surgery.
This similarly has given delivery to minimally invasive surgery, navigation surgical operation and robotic surgery. With the boom of the specialty each in breadth and depth, it throws a number of challenges to authors on how plenty to introduce the problem but to be concise however comprehensive, and no longer to lose sight of the fundamental fundamentals and scientific purposes to college students coming into clinical career in a readable form.
In the current edition, all the chapters have been revised, up to date and augmented. Some have been totally rewritten and expanded. New chapters have been brought on thyroid disorders, thyroid surgical operation and proptosis.
Several new diagrams, algorithms, tables, flowcharts and scientific images have been introduced to make the challenge easily understandable.
The chapter on “Nuggets for Rapid Review” presents beneficial guidelines which assist clear up various MCQs regularly set in the college or board examinations.
Mnemonics set right here and there are beneficial as aide memoire to recall and reproduce the difficulty for examination going students. The e book is clinically oriented with sensible method to the affected person as earlier than and affords large perception into the concern for undergraduates.
It is hoped that this version of the e book will additionally show beneficial to college students of DLO, MS/MD and DNB (Diplomate National Board) as a basis route earlier than they take recourse to complete volumes of the subject.
It will additionally be beneficial to common practitioners, students of nursing, audiology and speech therapy, and to these studying choice structures of remedy such as Ayurveda, Sidha, Unani and Tibbia, Homeopathy and Physiotherapy. The authors will experience gratified if the above goals are fulfilled.
There is continually scope for enhancement in any work and the authors will welcome any recommendations and feedback from realized instructors and college students at pldhingra@gmail.com or indiacontact@elsevier.com.
