Otolaryngology Conditions Treated
Loyola Medicine’s otolaryngology practice (also known as ear, nose and throat or ENT) is among the top programs in Illinois and in the country. Your Loyola doctor knows that conditions that affect your balance, hearing, smell and other ENT disorders can have a negative impact on your quality of life.
Your ENT healthcare team at Loyola will work with you to diagnose and treat your condition in the least invasive way possible, getting you back to your daily activities.
Loyola’s ENT doctors treat children and adults with a wide range of conditions and diseases of the ears, nose, sinuses, larynx, mouth, throat, neck and face. Loyola’s otolaryngologists are trained in both medicine and surgery, and many subspecialize in a particular area.
The expert otolaryngologists at Loyola provide advanced treatment for the following conditions:
- Acoustic neuroma
- Acute ear infection
- Allergies
- Balance disorders
- Bell's palsy
- Cancer of the sinuses
- Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks
- Childhood sleep apnea
- Cholesteatoma
- Chronic ear infection
- Chronic sinusitis
- Cleft lip and palate
- Congenital inner and outer ear disorders
- Congenital hearing loss
- Cranial nerve disorders
- Deafness
- Deviated spetum
- Dizziness
- Dysphagia
- Esthesioneuroblastoma
- Facial deformities
- Facial nerve disorders
- Facial paralysis
- Facial synkinesis
- Facial trauma
- Gastroesphageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Head and neck injuries
- Hemangiomas
- Hoarseness
- Labyrinthitis and vestibular neuritis
- Laryngeal atypia
- Laryngeal and hypoharyngeal cancer
- Laryngeal early and advanced cancer
- Laryngitis
- Loss of smell
- Meniere's disease
- Nasal cavity and paranasal sinus cancer
- Nasal obstruction
- Nasopharyngeal cancer
- Nerve pain
- Nerve pathway disorders
- Oral cavity cancer
- Oropharyngeal cancer
- Otitis media
- Otosclerosis
- Paradoxical vocal fold movement (PVFM)
- Parathyroid nodules and tumors
- Pituitary tumors
- Polyps
- Ramsay hunt syndrome
- Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP)
- Reflux laryngitis
- Reinke's edema
- Salivary gland cancer
- Salivary parotid tumors
- Sinusitis
- Sinus malignancy
- Sleep disorders
- Smell disorders
- Spasmodic dysphonia
- Swallowing disorders
- Swimmers ear
- Temporal bone cancer
- Thymus cancer
- Thyroid cancer
- Thyroid nodules and tumors
- Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)
- Tonsil and adenoid disease
- Tracheal and subglottic stenosis
- Tumors of the head and neck
- Vagal schwannoma
- Vestibular schwannoma
- Vocal cord hemorrhage
- Vocal cord nodules
- Vocal cord paralysis
- Vocal fold granuloma
- Vocal fold polyps, cysts and lesions
- Vocal fold scarring
- Voice disorders
- Voice dysfunction in neurological disorders
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