The lecture summarizes basic methods of investigation in neurootology. It is divided into the four basic themes:
1. Olfactometry - investigation of smell, diferential diagnosis of smell disorders
2. Gustometry - investigation of taste, hypogeusia and ageusia as a symptom, diagnostic consequences
3. Audiometry - summary of methods (this theme is a subject of other lecture)
4. Equilibriometry - investigation of vestibular organs, diferential diagnosis of vestibular disorders.
The lecturer supposes a basic knowledge from anatomy and physiology of sensory organs and basic knovledge of neurology (vestibular disorders)
As. MUDr. Rottenberg Jan: Clinical anatomy of anterior and lateral skull base
The lecture summarizes important data of topographical anatomy of the skull base from clinical point of view and its practical consequences to clinical symptomatology of skull base diseases, operation techniques and approaches and its complications:
1. Anatomy, development and variability of paranasal sinuses, functional endoscopic sinus surgery and its complications
2. Neural syndroms of the anterior skull base
3. Neural syndrom of the lateral skull base
4. The most frequent tumours of the lateral skull base and its clinical symptomatology
5. Types of facial nerve palsy and their topodiagnostics
6. The subject of skull base surgery
The lecturer supposes a basic anatomical knowledge and basic orientation in otolaryngology.
As. MUDr. P. Smilek: Emergency and First Aid Procedures
1. Bleeding (nasal, form larynx, trachea, oesophagus and ear)
2. Dyspnea( differential diagnosis, tracheotomy, intubation, care of tracheostomy)
3. Foreign bodies ( in the hypopharynx, esophagus, larynx, trachea,bronchi, nose and ear)
4. Corrosion and scalds ( in the mouth and oesophagus)
As. MUDr. P. Smilek: Basics principles in ENT Oncology
1. Etiology
2. Prognosis of Head and Neck cancer
3. Basic strategy of treatment
4. Treatment of lymphnode metastasis
5. Cancer of the nose and paranasal sinuses
6. Cancer of the epipharynx
7. Cancer of the Oropharynx
8. Cancer of the Larynx
9. Follow up - very important
Literature
UCHYTIL, Bořivoj, Pavel SMILEK, Rom KOSTŘICA and Miroslav NOVOTNÝ. Vyšetřovací metody a základní diagnostika v otorinolaryngologii (Methods of investigation and basic diagnosis in otorhinolaryngology). 1. vyd. Praha: Triton, 2002. 254 pp. Edice Levou zadní. ISBN 80-7254-190-0. info
SMILEK, Pavel, Rom KOSTŘICA, Zdenek MECHL and Vladimír SPURNÝ. Maligní nádory hlavy a krku (Head and neck malignant tumors). In Diagnostické a léčebné postupy u maligních chorob. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada Publishing, spol. s r.o., 2002. p. 21-31. ISBN 80-7169-792-3. info
HYBÁŠEK, Ivan. Ušní, nosní a krční lékařství (Ear,nose and throat medicine). 1. vyd. Praha: Galén, Karolinum, 1999. 220 pp. 1. ISBN 80-7262-017-7. info
NOVOTNÝ, Miroslav, Alaš HAHN, Zdeněk BOLELOUCKÝ and Helena VAVERKOVÁ. Závratě, diagnostika a léčba (Dizziness, diagnostics and treatment). Stuttgart: Aesopus Verlag, 1997. p. 158. ISBN 3-7773-1744-6. info
ČADA, Karel. Základy otorinolaryngologie. 2. podstatně přeprac. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1996. 250 s. ISBN 80-210-1342-7. info
Kryoterapie v medicíně. Edited by Rom Kostřica. 1. vyd. Brno: Vydavatelství Masarykovy univerzity, 1995. 124 s. ISBN 80-210-1249-8. info
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.