Research publications

1. M. Wais, E. Ooi, RM. Leung, A.D. Vescan, J. Lee, I.J. Witterick. The effect of Low-Fidelity Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Simulators on Surgical Skill. International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology (in press) 2011.

2. D.M. Hussey, P.K. Harris, C.M. Woods, A.C. Thomas, E.H. Ooi, and A.S. Carney. Does Helicobacter pylori cause adenoid hypertrophy in children? Archives of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (in press) 2011.

3. C.M. Woods, D.N. Hooper, E.H. Ooi, LW Tan, A.S. Carney. Human lysozyme has fungicidal activity against nasal fungi, American Journal of Allergy and Rhinology (in press) 2011.

4. N. Wolter, E.H. Ooi, I.J. Witterick. Intralesional corticosteroid injection and dilatation provides effective management of subglottic stenosis in Wegener’s granulomatosis. Laryngoscope 120(12): 2452-5, 2010.

5. E.H. Ooi, J. Glicksman, A.D. Vescan, I.J. Witterick. An alternative management approach to paranasal sinus fibro-osseous lesions. Int Forum Allergy Rhinol (in press) 2011.

6. E.H. Ooi, A. Marchie, I.J. Witterick. Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the pterygopalatine fossa presenting as facial pain. Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 39(5): E37-8, 2010.

7. E.H. Ooi, I.J. Witterick. Rhinologic surgical training. Otolaryngology Clinics of North America 43(3): 673-89, 2010.

8. E.H. Ooi, A.J. Psaltis, I.J. Witterick, P.J. Wormald. Innate immunity. Otolaryngology Clinics of North America 43(3): 473-87, 2010.

9. Tan L, Rogers TJ, Hatzirodos N, Baker LM, Ooi E, Wormald PJ. Immunomodulatory effect of cytosine-phosphate-guanosine (CpG)-oligonucleotides in nonasthmatic chronic rhinosinusitis: an explant model. Am J Rhinol Allergy 2009 23(2): 123-9.

10. K. Seiberling, E. Ooi, J.M. Yip, P.J. Wormald. Canine fossa trephine for the severely diseased maxillary sinus. American Journal of Allergy and Rhinology 2009 23(6): 615-8.

11. E.H. Ooi, P.J. Wormald, L.W. Tan. Innate immunity in the paranasal sinuses: A review of nasal host defenses. Am J Rhinol 22:13-19, 2007.

12. AJ Psaltis, MA Bruhn, EH Ooi, LW Tan, PJ Wormald. Nasal mucosa expression of lactoferrin in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis. Laryngoscope 2007, 117(11): 2030-5, 2007.

13. E.H. Ooi, P.J. Wormald, A.S. Carney, C.L. James, L.W. Tan. Human cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide is upregulated in the eosinophilic mucus subgroup of chronic rhinosinusitis patients. American Journal of Rhinology 2007, 21(4): 395-401.

14. E.H. Ooi, P.J. Wormald, A.S. Carney, C.L. James, L.W. Tan. Fungal allergens induce cathelicidin LL-37 expression in chronic rhinosinusitis patients in a nasal explant model. American Journal of Rhinology 2007, 21(3): 367-372.

15. R. Douglas, M. Bruhn, L.W. Tan, E. Ooi, A. Psaltis, P.J. Wormald. Responses of peripheral blood lymphocytes in fungal extracts and staphylococcal superantigen B in chronic rhinosinusitis Laryngoscope 2007, 117(3): 411-4.

16. E.H Ooi, P.J. Wormald, A.S. Carney, C.L. James, L.W. Tan. Surfactant protein D expression in chronic rhinosinusitis patients and immune responses in vitro to Aspergillus and Alternaria in a nasal explant model. Laryngoscope 2007; 117(1): 51-57.

17. A. Simon Carney, Lor-Wai Tan, Damian Adams, Antiopi Varelias, Eng Hooi Ooi, P.J. Wormald. Th2 immunological inflammation in allergic fungal sinusitis, nonallergic eosinophilic fungal sinusitis, and chronic rhinosinusitis. Am J Rhinol 20: 145-149, 2006.

18. E.H. Ooi, Z Khouri, M. Hilton. Persistent buccopharyngeal membrane in an adult. International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery 2005 June; 34(4): 446-448.

19. E.H. Ooi, M. Hilton, G. Hunter. Management of lateral sinus thrombosis: update and literature review. Journal of Laryngology and Otology 2003 Dec; 117(12): 932-9.

20. P.J Wormald, E. Ooi, C.A. van Hasselt, S. Nair. Endoscopic removal of sinonasal inverted papilloma including endoscopic medial maxillectomy. Laryngoscope 2003; 111: 867-873.

21. E.H. Ooi, N Pathama-Nathan, Hewett P.J., and F.J. Bridgewater. Colon Ischaemia from a Stammers hernia: A long-term complication after Billroth II gastrectomy. Anz J Surg 2002; 72(8): 601-603.

22. Sun WM, Doran S, Jones KL, Ooi E, Boeckxstaens G, Hebbard GS, Lingenfelser T, Morley JE, Dent J, Horowitz M. Effects of nitroglycerin on liquid gastric emptying and antropyloroduodenal motility. Am J Physiol 1998 Nov; 275(5 Pt 1): G1173-8.