Department of Otorhinolaryngology Yao Municipal Hospital Yao-city Osaka JAPAN

What kind of Department is Yao municipal hospital's department of Otorhinolaryngology?

Otorhinolaryngology is the department that diagnoses and treats ear, nose and throat (laryngopharyngeal) diseases , using internal medicine (drugs and treatments) and surgery (operations).
In addition, as it treats "swellings (tumors)" from the neck up, Otolaryngology is also called Head and Neck Surgery in Europe and America.
You might be surprised to find "There is surgery in otolaryngology?", but Yao Municipal Hospital Otolaryngology department performs more than 500 operations with or without hospitalization a year.
General clinics treat mainly the medical aspect. At Yao municipal hospital, we take in charge the surgical aspect and the head and neck department. Concretely, we treat otitis media surgery and nervous hearing loss and dizziness, empyema (chronic sinusitis) and allergic rhinitis surgery, smelling disease nervous disorder, vocal cord polyp, etc.
We treat tumors, in the mouth or in the throat, as well as salivary gland tumors.
In addition to this we also treat facial paralysis, which suddenly worsen facial movement.

Examination

At Yao municipal hospital otorhinolaryngological department, we can perform same day otorhinolaryngological endoscopy, scientific examination for hearing nerves deafness and dizziness as auditory brainstem response (ABR), electrooculograph (ENG), and even hearing aid conformance tests.
Furthermore, we are licenced to perform newborn baby auditory brainstem response (ABR), and we perform otoacoustic emission (OAE), automatic auditory brainstem response (AABR)

Outpatients (same day) surgery

• Ears
  Tympanostomy tubes surgery
  Ear fistula resection
• Nose
  Allergic rhinitis endoscopic laser surgery
• Oropharynx
  Intraoral laser surgery
  Salivary calculus surgical removal
  Tongue tie (ankyloglossia) surgical correction
• larynx
  We perform (endoscopic) vocal cords resection, etc.