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Surgery - Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery
Soly Baredes, MD, Chief
The Division of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery provides consultative and therapeutic services for patients needing care with problems pertaining to ear, nose, and throat disorders, head and neck oncology, endoscopic procedures of the upper airway and digestive tract, communicative disorders, maxillofacial surgery, and audiology services. The highly specialized areas of Otology and Neurotology are also within this Division and consultations for treatment of disorders such as temporal bone tumors, including acoustic neuromas and glomus tumors, vertigo and other balance disorders, and Meniere’s disease may be arranged. The Division also offers services in Pediatric Otolaryngology.Skull Base Surgery is performed by the Division through superior collaborative relationships with Neurosurgery, including subspecialists in neuro-otology, Plastic Surgery, and Craniofacial Surgery and assure the optimal approach for each individual patient.Anterior skull base approaches are used to treat a wide range of lesions, including traumatic, infectious, and neoplastic conditions. Precise imaging techniques, including intraoperative MRI, are employed, and advances in the endoscopic treatment of pituitary tumors are being explored.Posterior approaches are employed with the assistance of neuro-otologists to treat patients with acoustic neuromas and other tumors of the cerebellopontine angle, tumors of the juglar foramen, as well as traumatic injuries to the facial nerve.The Audiology Service offers a full range of auditory evaluation and rehabilitation including conventional audiometry, impedance typanometry, electronystagmography, and brainstem evoked audiometry. Patients with tinnitus are evaluated and rehabilitated. The Cochlear Implant Center offers surgical treatment for patients with severe-to-profound hearing loss, who cannot obtain benefit from hearing aids and whose hearing loss is due to damaged inner ear hair cells.The Laboratory of Voice disorders is a clinical facility for evaluating patients with hoarseness or disorders of phonation. This evaluation process includes examination by a laryngologist as well as endoscopic videostroboscopy.The Swallowing Center provides a multi-disciplinary approach to diagnosis and manages the care of patients with the full range of swallowing disorders from aspiration to heartburn to reflux disease. Specialties represented on the team include gastroenterology, surgery, neurology, otolaryngology, physiatry, as well as speech and language pathology.
Appointments: (973) 226-3444
Staff
Erik Cohen, MD
Patricia Connelly, PhD
Robert Jyung, MD, Director of Otology/Neuro-otology
Huma A. Quraishi, MD
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