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The ENT department, Meenakshi Hospital ,thanjavur, houses all diagnostic facilities along with an Audiology & speech therapy Department with full time audio-verbal therapist to evaluate hearing, imbalance & speech disorders including neonatal screening program(OAE,BERA) ,speech rehabilitation.

Our ENT department offers wide range of surgeries including Skull base tumour excision, Head and neck malignancies, all kinds of advanced OSA surgeries

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Facilities

  • STORZ wide angled endoscopes
  • 4K STRYKER 3-chip camera
  • ZEISS and LEICA microscopes
  • Specially dedicated clinic for dysphagia

Milestones

1000+

ENT Surgeries

60+

Head and Neck Oncology Surgeries

30+

Skull Base Surgeries

25+

OSA(Snoring) Surgeries

Diagnostic Procedures

  • Diagnostic Nasal Endoscopy(DNE)
  • Videolaryngoscopy(VLSopy)
  • Pure Tone Audiometry
  • Stroboscopy for voice abnormalities
  • FNAC
  • OAE(Oto-acoustic Emission test)
  • BERA(Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry)

Special Diagnositic Procedures

  • Polysomnography(PSG/Sleep Study) for snoring
  • Drug Induced Sleep Endoscopy(DISE)
  • VEMP(Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential) test and E-ChoG(Electro-Cochleograhy) test for peripheral vertigo
  • FEES(Functional Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing) for chronic dysphagia

Therapeutic /office-day Care Procedures

  • Intra-Tymapanic Injections for Meniere’S, tinnitus and Sudden sensi-neural hearing loss
  • Positional maneuvers for vertigo
  • All Head and Neck regional Minor Biopsies including airway(laryngeal growth) and lymph node biopsy as day care procedure
  • Hearing Aid trial and fitting
  • Speech therapy /Speech rehabilitation for both adult and pediatrics
  • Vestibular rehabilitation
  • Ear lobe repair and Ear piercing
  • Ear keloid excision

Surgical Procedures

Ear (Otology)

  • Mastoidectomy with tympanoplasty for CSOM Mucosal types
  • Modified Radical mastoidectomy (MRM) with Ossicular and Canal Wall Reconstruction for CSOM Squamous types including Cholesteatoma
  • Stapedectomy/Stapedotomy for Otosclerosis
  • Facial Nerve decompression for acute facial trauma with palsy
  • Management of all middle ear tumours like Vestibular Schwannoma,Glomous tympanicum and Glomous jugularae.

Nose(Rhinology)

  • Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery(FESS)
  • Endoscopic excision of mucoceles, Inverted papilloma.
  • Endoscopic Optic Nerve Decompression
  • Radical/Total/Partial/Medial Maxiilectomy including orbital exenteration for Carcinoma Maxillary sinus and Mucormycosis(Black Fungus)
  • Endoscopic release of Choanal Atresia
  • Endoscopic DCR(Dacrocystorhinostomy)
  • Endoscopic Sphenopalatine artery Ligation/cauterisation(ESPAL) for recurrent epistaxis

Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery

  • Endoscopic Skull base closure of Spontaneous and post traumatic CSF Rhinorrhea/Leaks
  • Endoscopic removal of all accessible skull base tumours like Pituitary tumours, Craniopharyngioma
  • Endoscopic or combined approach for anterior cranial fossa tumours(Esthesi neuroblastoma/Sino-nasal tumours)

Laryngology

  • Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
  • Tongue-Tie Release
  • Micro-laryngeal Surgery for all phonotraumatic lesion(Like vocal cord polyps, cysts)
  • Oesophagoscopy and foreign body removal
  • Flexible/Rigid Bronchoscopy and Emergency Airway foreign body removal

Head And Neck Oncology

  • Management of all kinds of benign tumours of head & neck including Branchial cysts, fistula, Paraganglioma
  • Hemi and total thyroidectomy for thyroid adenomas and malignancies including central neck dissection
  • Superficial & radical parotoidectomy for parotid adenomas & malignancies
  • Submandibular gland excision - for sialadenitis & tumours
  • Stone removal in submandibular duct - without gland excision
  • Neck dissection
  • Management of all kinds of head and neck malignancies(Tongue,mandible, Maxilla, Larynx, Pharynx, MUO) by Glossectomies, Laryngectomies with appropriate reconstruction

Surgeries For Snoring-osa(Obstructive Sleep Apnoea)

  • All kinds of surgeries related to static obstructions like Adenoidectomy and Tonsillectomies, Tongue base reduction
  • Soft tissue Surgeries like Palatoplasty surgeries(including Expansion Sphincter Palatoplasty), Epiglottic surgeries.

Facial Plastic

  • Rhinoplasty for deviated nose / depressed nose
  • Management of facial and nasal skin cancer(Basal cell carcinoma) with appropriate reconstruction.
  • Management of facial laceration and fracture nasal bones.

Doctors

Dr. P. ISAAC RICHARDS

MBBS,MS,DNB
Consultant

Dr. P. GANESH BABU

MBBS, MS(ENT)
Visiting Consultant

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