Laryngology

Laryngology: A Case-Based Approach is an invaluable new text for clinicians and students covering evidence-based assessment and management of a full range of laryngological conditions. This unique text examines 55 common and rare cases and covers pediatric and adult patients. The cases are separated into four sections: pediatric, voice and airway, general/systemic, and dysphagia/swallowing.Key Features:• More than 300 figures, most in full color, including surgical photos, endoscopic images, pathological micrographs, and various process charts/diagrams and decision trees.• More than 30 video and audio files• Laryngology’s leading experts have contributed their knowledge, expertise and experience to discuss the varied management options as they see it.The exciting new text also comes with access to a PluralPlus companion website, where readers can access video and audio files to enhance their understanding of cases in the book.With its multitude of cases and related multimedia, Laryngology: A Case-Based Approach is must-have resource for otolaryngologists, laryngologists, phoniatricians, speech-language pathologists, as well as anesthesiologists with an interest in managing the difficult airway.

Jacqueline Allen, FRACS is a Laryngologist practicing in Auckland, New Zealand. A graduate of the University of Auckland, Dr Allen worked in the United Kingdom before completing her specialist ORL training in 2007. She then undertook Fellowship training at the Voice and Swallow Centre, University of California, Davis where she specialized in Voice and Dysphagia utilizing modern in-office techniques, endoscopy and laser surgery. She returned to New Zealand in 2010 and established the Auckland Voice and Swallow Centre, and the Swallowing Lab at University of Auckland where these techniques have been put to use. Dr Allen is a Board Member of the American Bronchoesophagological Association, Dysphagia Research Society, Laryngology Society of Australasia and is Section Editor of Current Opinion in Otolaryngology. She has published more than 35 journal articles, 10 book chapters and is a reviewer for many international peer-reviewed journals. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Auckland.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++S.A. Reza Nouraei, MBBChir, PhD, FRCS, is the chief resident in otolaryngology at the National Centre for Airway Reconstruction at Charing Cross Hospital, London and an honorary senior lecturer at University College London. He studied physiology at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and obtained his medical degree from the University of Cambridge in 2002. Dr. Nouraei was one of the first surgeons to be appointed into academic higher surgical training in otolaryngology. His early clinical interest in adult laryngotracheal stenosis led to his career in otolaryngology. He has helped develop a number of surgical procedures for treating laryngotracheal stenosis and created a framework for assessing outcome. Dr. Nouraei has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, and has been awarded a doctorate for work on adult laryngotracheal stenosis.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Guri S. Sandhu, MD, FRCS, is a laryngologist at Imperial College London. He studied medicine at the University of London and received his surgical training in otolaryngology through the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear and Great Ormond Street hospitals. He is a pioneer and leading authority in the management of laryngotracheal stenosis. Having completed a doctorate of medicine in the causes and treatment of airway stenosis, he has published extensively on the subject and lectures nationally and internationally. Dr. Sandhu is the clinical lead for the National Centre for Airway Reconstruction, which is composed of a multidisciplinary team of airway specialists. He is also cofounder of the British Laryngological Association.

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