“…In 1962, Golding-Wood revived the tympanosympathectomy technique, changing the procedure to its current name of tympanic neurectomy, which is used to relieve deep ear pain. Nowadays, tympanic neurectomy is indicated in the treatment of medically recalcitrant otalgia (Roberts et al, 2016) and has been documented as advantageous in cases of parotid sialectasis (Daud & Pahor, 1995), parotid fistulae (Marfatia et al, 2021) and Frey's syndrome (gustatory sweating) (Davis, 1985). Additionally, endoscopic tympanic neurectomy has been shown to alleviate pain in otologic neuralgia, defined as F I G U R E 1 Schematic drawing of the vessels and nerves of the skull base near the internal carotid plexus (yellow nerve fibres travelling along the internal carotid artery as they give rise to the caroticotympanic nerve (upper yellow arrow).…”