Otolaryngology

A 29-year-old woman presents with three days of worsening unilateral throat pain, fever and difficulty swallowing. She cannot open her mouth fully, her voice is…

A 48-year-old man who migrated from southern China ten years ago presents with six weeks of a blocked sensation and reduced hearing in the right ear. On several…

A 23-year-old man presents with a five-day history of worsening sore throat, and swallowing has become so painful that he is spitting his saliva into a cup. His…

A 46-year-old man notices sudden hearing loss in his left ear on waking 48 hours ago. He has no pain, discharge or recent upper respiratory infection, and otosc…

A 15-year-old boy has six months of recurrent, predominantly right-sided epistaxis and progressive right nasal obstruction. He has no fever or facial pain, and…

A 59-year-old man presents with eight hours of continuous vertigo, vomiting and difficulty walking. He has spontaneous right-beating nystagmus and no hearing lo…

A 14-month-old child has fever and irritability after several days of coryza. The child is pulling at the right ear and wakes repeatedly overnight. Otoscopy sho…

A 38-year-old woman experiences brief episodes of spinning when she rolls over in bed or looks upward. Each episode lasts less than a minute, and she is well be…

A 42-year-old woman presents with recurrent anterior epistaxis from the right nostril. She is haemodynamically stable, and firm compression for 15 minutes plus…

A 34-year-old swimmer has had increasing right ear pain for three days. Moving the pinna and pressing the tragus markedly worsen the pain, and the external cana…