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General Considerations
How did Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery Become the Essential Medical Discipline for the 21st Century?
Robert J. Ruben
The Evolving Identity of Otolaryngology From Otolaryngology to Communication to Human Behavior
Roland D. Eavey
Does Pediatric Laryngology Needs a Patron Saint?
Lesley J. Salked
Placebo Effects in Medicine
Ted J. Kaptchuk and Franklin G. Miller
Discussions About Gizmos
Richard Rosenfeld and Peter J. Koltai
Diagnosis
Richard Rosenfeld
Patients
Richard Rosenfeld
Simulation in Otolaryngology: Smart People CAN Learn from Dummies!
Ellen Deutsch
Facing Severe or Recurrent Infections? Think About Primary Immunodeficiency
Sandro Felix Perazzio and Luís Eduardo Coelho Andrade
Risk to Children´s and Adolescent´s Health in the Digital World
Marco Antonio Chaves Gama
Mouth, Head & Neck
Ankyloglossia: Tongue Tie
Jessica Levi and Kimberly Russell
Balloon Dilatation in Laryngo Tracheal Stenosis: An Update
Maria Luisa Tropiano, Marilena Trozzi and Sergio Bottero
A Practical Clinical Guideline for Bronchoscopy in Children with Suspected Foreign Body Aspiration: The “2/3 Rule”
Lesley J. Salked
Understanding the Role of Biofilms in Chronic Tonsillitis and Adenoidal-tonsillar Hyperplasia
Kaitlyn E. DeMeo and James Christopher Post
Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis: a Model for Gene Discovery of Uncommon Diseases
Farrel J. Buchinsky and J. Christopher Post
Critical Airway Response Team “CART”: Airway Emergencies in a Tertiary Care Pediatric Hospital
Tulio A Valdez and Nicole Murray
Pediatric Salivary Gland Disease
Conor Devine and Paul Krakovitz
Nose and Sinus
Update on the Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis
Fuad Baroody and Tania Sih
Pediatric Epistaxis
Ronen Nazarian, Roy R. Casiano and Ramzi Younis
Sublingual Immunotherapy with Monomeric Allergoid Tablets in Children and Adolescents Suffering from Cat Allergy. An Observational Study
Tuyet Nhung Nguyen, Kija Shah-Hosseini, Gregor Zadoyan and Ralph Mösges
Clinical Evidence and Rationale for Specific Immunotherapy in Allergic Rhinitis
Tuyet Nhung Nguyen and Ralph Mösges
Diagnosing Chronic Rhinosinusitis in Children by Clinical Symptoms Reduces the Need of Diagnostic Tests
Gualtiero Leo, Cristoforo Incorvaia, Alessandro Cazzavillan and Dario Consonni
Ear
Cerumen in Children: A Neglected but Fundamental Problem
Paola Marchisio, Carlotta Pipolo, Dario Consonni, Alberto Saibene, Giovanni Felisati, Susanna Esposito and Nicola Principi
Cholesteatomas in Children: Update
Tal Marom and Sharon Ovnat Tamir
Management of Congenital Aural Atresia
Robert F. Yellon and Françoise Denoyelle
Post-operative Infection in Myringoplasty: Reviewing the Evidence
Sarah L Prunty and Harvey L Coates
Incidence of Otitis Media in a Contemporary Danish National Birth Cohort
Tanja Todberg, Anders Koch, Mikael Andersson, Sjurdur F. Olsen, Jørgen Lous and Preben Homøe
Otologic Issues in Children with Cleft Palate
William J. Parkes y Blake C. Papsin
Hearing and Communication Disorders in the XXI Century
Middle Ear Disease and Hearing Loss Among Urban Children and Orphans in Bauru, Brazil. A Study of Prevalence and Practical Screening Priorities
Inga Bastos, Åke Reimer and Lars Andréasson
Usher Syndrome
Anita Jeyakumar and Jennifer Lentz