**Meet the editor**

Dr Balwant Singh Gendeh is an ENT surgeon with sub-speciality interest in Rhinology, namely Allergy, Sinonasal diseases, Endoscopic sinus, anterior and ventral skull base surgery, and Functional and Cosmetic Nasal Surgery. He was a research registrar in ENT at the Royal Infirmary, Middlesborough, United Kingdom in 1993, and subsequently at Fulbright Scholar program, at

the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center(UPMC), Pittsburgh. In 1997, he also worked at Hospital University of Pennsylvania (HUP), Philadelphia, USA, sub-specializing in Rhinology. Dr BS Gendeh has been a senior consultant ENT Surgeon at the National University of Malaysia Medical Center (UKMMC) and Professor at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head Neck surgery since 2000. He is involved in clinical activities, surgery, research, teaching medical students, residents and fellows. He has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and edited books.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Proteins Involved in Otoconia** 

**Formation and Maintenance 3**  Yunxia Wang Lundberg and Yinfang Xu

Jin Hee Cho and Young Ha Kim

Chapter 3 **Endoscopic Dacryocystorhinostomy 45** 

Chapter 4 **Endoscopic Dacryocystorhinostomy 49** 

Farhad Farahani

**Section 3 Laryngology 113** 

Chris de Souza, Rosemarie de Souza and Jayesh Nisar

Chapter 5 **Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis: ARIA Document, Nasal Lavage, Antihistamines, Cromones and Vasoconstrictors 61** 

> María Teresa Belver González, Álvaro Moreno-Ancillo, Ana Carmen Gil Adrados and José Manuel Morales Puebla

> María Teresa Belver González, Álvaro Moreno-Ancillo, Ana Carmen Gil Adrados and José Manuel Morales Puebla

**Closure Techniques in Voice Microsurgery 115**  C.B. Chng, D.P.C. Lau, J.Q. Choo and C.K. Chui

**Glucocorticotherapy, Leukotriene Antagonists, Omalizumab** 

Jesús Jurado-Palomo, Irina Diana Bobolea,

Chapter 6 **Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis: Anticholinergics,** 

Chapter 7 **Investigation of Experimental Wound** 

**and Specific-Allergen Immunotherapy 83**  Jesús Jurado-Palomo, Irina Diana Bobolea,

**Section 1 Otology 1** 

**Section 2 Rhinology 23** 

Chapter 2 **Epistaxis 25** 
