Otorhinolaryngology (ear, nose and throat or ENT)
The Department of Otorhinolaryngology (ear, nose and throat or ENT) at St George & Bluecross Hospitals provides a full range of medical and surgical services for pediatric and adult patients. Otorhinolaryngology is the branch of medicine that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose and throat disorders.
Clinical Offerings
- Clinical examination and treatment of infectious diseases of the ear : external (swimmers ear) and middle ear infections, mastoiditis, labyrinthitis, infections of the auricle)
- Clinical examination and treatment of infectious diseases of the oral cavity, pharynx, hypopharynx, larynx
- Clinical examination and treatment of infectious diseases of the nasal cavity, sinuses and rhinopharynx (with symptoms as chronic post nasal drip, pain between the eyes, frontal headache, migraine, chronic nasal obstruction, chronic catarrh)
- Investigation and treatment of lymph nodes enlargement of the neck
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Snoring and Sleep apnoea
- Somnoplasty (less invading treatment for snoring)
- Surgery for removal of nasal polyps
- Surgery for chronic sinusitis (Fess)
- Septorhinoplasty
- Reduction of nasal middle turbinates
- Nose bleeding (epistaxis) treatment
- Tonsillectomy, Adenoidectomy, Grommets.
- Laryngeal examination and micro-surgery for laryngeal lesions.
- Diagnostic endoscopy and biopsy, when needed, for endonasal and sinus disease
- Diagnostic endoscopy and biopsy, when needed, for hypopharyngeal and laryngeal disorders
- Lesions removal from oral cavity, lips, auricle
- Salivary glands diseases
- Surgery of the middle ear (tympanoplasty, mastoidectomy, stapedectomy for otosclerosis)
- Diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss and middle ear disease (hearing tests, hearing aid referrals when needed, tympanometry)
- Investigation and treatment of tinnitus
- Investigation and treatment of vertigo-dizziness
- Pre-anaesthesia consultations
- Elective and emergency anaesthesia for surgery
- Obstetrical anaesthesia, including spinal and epidural
- Sedation for radiology/MRI/CT investigations
Doctor(s)
- Dr. Costantia Vlotoma – Manoli
- Dr. Efstathios Avraamides