"GMS Current Topics in Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery" is an annual journal of the German Association of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery dedicated to publish the state-of-the-art review articles of the annual meetings of the Association. The CTO journal now starts with volume 3 headlined "Environmental and Occupational Health Disorders" (ed. H. J. Schultz-Coulon), which has been the congress motto of the 75^th Annual Meeting from May 19-23, 2004 in Bad Reichenhall, Germany. The authors of these main congress articles are internationally renowned scientists in ORL.

The first two volumes of CTO entitled "Middle Ear Surgery" (ed. Klaus Jahnke) and "Lasers in Otorhinolaryngology" (ed. K. B. Hüttenbrink) have been published by Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart-New York in 2004.