ENT Board Prep High Yield Review for the Otolaryngology In-service and Board Exams

This new edition is a high-yield review that is an ideal study guide for the ENT in-service and board exams. While other review guides are low yield, this is quick, concise, and easy-to-use, providing everything you need to know in a easy to digest format. ENT Board Prep offers review on sections such as cancer, ear, sinus, plastics, sleep, and laryngology, as well as case studies useful for studying for the oral board exams. Written and edited by leaders in the field, this book aims to serve future residents and fellows in those crucial weeks leading up to the ENT board exam. The new edition includes fully updated sections, illustrations, and board review material. Specific updates include head and neck cancer staging and therapies, sleep apnea therapy advances, and virtual reality planning for skull base surgery. This is an ideal guide for ENT specialists, and specifically those studying for board exams.

Part I. Pediatrics.- 1. Embryology.- 2. General Pediatric Otolaryngology.- 3. Congenital Syndromes.- 4. Pediatric Airway and Esophagology.- 5. Pediatric Otology and Cochlear Implants.- Part II. Rhinology/Allergy.- 6. Rhinology.- 7. Allergy and Immunology.- 8. Systemic, Infectious, and Inflammatory Diseases.- Part III.  General.- 9. Sleep Disordered Breathing and Obstructive Sleep Apnea.- 10. Fluids, Hemostasis, Nutrition, and Pulmonary Physiology.- 11. Therapeutics: Pharmacology, Chemotherapy, Radiation Oncology.- 12. Head and Neck Pathology.- Part IV. Otology.- 13. Temporal Bone Physiology and Audiology.- 14. Vestibular Disorders.- 15. Otologic Disorders.- 16. The Facial Nerve and Lateral Skull Base Disorders.- Part V. Head and Neck.- 17. Thyroid and Parathyroid Diseases.- 18. Salivary Gland Diseases.- 19. Head and Neck Lymphoma and Sarcoma.- 20. Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.- 21. Oral Cavity and Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.- 22. Nasal Cavity and ParanasalSinus Cancer.- 23. Vascular Malformations and Tumors.- 24. Cutaneous and Temporal Bone Malignancies.- 25. Odontogenic Cysts and Tumors.- Part VI. Laryngology.- 26. Deep Neck Space Infections.- 27. Laryngology.- 28. Benign Lesions of the Larynx.- 29. Dysphagia.- 30. Lasers.- Part VII. Facial Plastics and Reconstruction.- 31. Facial Plastics.- 32. Head and Neck Reconstruction: Local, Pedicled, and Free Flaps.- 33. Head and Neck Trauma.

Dr. Fred Lin is an Assistant Professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in New York City. He is an expert in the surgical treatment of sleep apnea, snoring, and nasal obstruction, and has been named the Division Chief of Sleep Surgery of the Mount Sinai Health System and Director of the Mount Sinai Hospital Sleep Surgery Program.

Dr. Patel is an expert in advanced endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery. She is the past Chair of the Education Committee and Member of the Board of Directors for the American Rhinologic Society, is the current Chair of the Rhinology and Allergy Education Committee for the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and has developed a multitude of educational materials for both physicians and patients to help them better understand rhinologic disorders.

Dr. Patel has been active in clinical research, publishing widely on topics such as avoiding complications in endoscopic sinus surgery, chronic rhinosinusitis in the immunosuppressed patient population, new devices and techniques for endoscopic skull base surgery, racial disparities in sinonasal cancer survival and olfactory dysfunction. She continues to perform research in these areas and is collaborating with engineers to develop technology that she hopes will eventually help cure patients with olfactory loss.