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Otolaryngology, Head & Neck

Ear, nose, throat and the neck's compartments: the airway always first, the thyroid and the nerves that decide the voice, and the high-volume operations, tonsils, grommets, septum, whose small complication lists are learned precisely because the operations are so common.

3 operations in depth5 interactive cases

Backdrop: CT of the paranasal sinuses: axial scout and coronal reconstruction through the orbits and ethmoid cells · Ptrump16 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Read the scan

Imaging

See the study, interpret it, then answer the surgical question.

The studies that shape surgical decision-making. Not a radiology curriculum: what the scan changes about the plan, then practice reading it.

Practice the image

The airway reads first

Three days of sore throat, now fever, trismus and a muffled voice. CT neck with contrast. (Fictional educational case.)

Synthetic educational image · schematic neck CT for airway practice

Read the airway first, then find the collection pressing on it: the ENT habit of asking 'is the airway safe, and for how long?' before any drainage plan.

CT
Two CT panels: an axial scout with the coronal slice positions marked, and a coronal reconstruction through the orbits, ethmoid and maxillary sinuses
CT sinuses · axial scout and coronal reconstruction through the ethmoid and maxillary sinuses

What each study decides

Investigations

  • Flexible nasendoscopy

    • The specialty's direct look: nose, pharynx and larynx examined awake in clinic or at the bedside, and the airway assessment on which emergency plans are built.
    • In the neck-lump clinic it hunts the primary; in the stridor assessment it grades the threat without touching it.

  • Ultrasound with fine-needle aspiration

    • The neck lump's first instrument: characterises the node or nodule and samples it in the same visit, keeping tissue planes undisturbed for later surgery.
    • For thyroid nodules the ultrasound grading plus cytology sets the entire pathway.

  • CT & MRI of the neck

    • Cross-sectional staging: the primary's extent, the nodes' levels, the airway's calibre and the chest checked in the same sitting.
    • For the deep neck abscess it answers the operative question: where is the pus, and which compartment's door does it open.
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Hub shaped by the Surgical Specialties Lead with the ENT reviewer (open seat). Images and videos carry their source; educational use for supervised learning, not clinical guidance.