Carotid Body Tumors: Surgical Management and Review of Patients Over 10 Years
Indian Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 2016 Background: Carotid body tumours (CBTs) are rare but highly vascular neoplasms originating in the paraganglionic cells of the carotid bifurcation. Exact etiology of these tumors is not known.
Gulam Nabi Lone +4 more
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Histological pattern of central nervous system neoplasms [PDF]
, 2001 Objective: To see in a large series of patients the histological pattern of CNS neoplasms and to provide a comprehensive data about the frequency of CNS neoplasms in Pakistani patients and to give a clearer idea about their prevalence.
Ahmed, Z. +5 more
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PD‐1/PD‐L1 negative schwannoma mimicking obstructive bronchial malignancy: A case report
Thoracic Cancer, 2020 Schwannomas are homogeneous tumors of schwann cells and occur at peripheral and cranial nerves on the upper limbs, the head and neck area. Rarely, a bronchial schwannoma may appear in the lung and be misdiagnosed as lung neoplasms.
Daibing Zhou +5 more
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Surgical treatment of benign parapharyngeal space tumours : presentation of two clinical cases and revision of the literature [PDF]
, 2008 Parapharyngeal space (PPS) tumours, most of them benign, account for some 0.5% of tumours of the head and neck. The importance of these tumours lies mainly in two aspects: on the one hand, the difficulty of early diagnosis, due to the lack of symptoms
Costas López, Alberto +4 more
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Neurosarcoidose: orientações para o neurologista geral [PDF]
, 2012 Neurosarcoidosis (NS) more commonly occurs in the setting of systemic disease. The diagnosis is based on a clinical history suggestive of NS, presence of noncaseating granulomas, and supportive evidence of sarcoid pathology, laboratory, and imaging ...
Abrahão, Agessandro +5 more
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Malignant mental nerve neuropathy : systematic review [PDF]
, 2008 Malignant mental neuropathy (MMN) is a neurological manifestation of cancer, characterized by the presence of hypoesthesia or anesthesia restricted to the territory of the mental branch of the mandibular nerve. A systematic review of the literature has
Galán Gil, Sonica +2 more
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Incidence of vestibular schwannoma in Finland, 1990–2017
Acta OncologicaBackground: An increasing trend in incidence of vestibular schwannomas (VS) has been reported, though not consistently, across populations. Materials and methods: We obtained data from the Finnish Cancer Registry on 1,149 VS cases diagnosed in 1990 ...
Aino Iivanainen +2 more
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Results of surgical resection of carotid body tumors: A twenty-year experience
Rare Tumors, 2020 This study examines whether surgical resection of carotid body tumors (CBTs) is acceptable in light of potential significant neurologic complications. This IRB-approved retrospective study analyzed data from 24 patients undergoing surgical treatment for ...
January F Moore +7 more
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Primary Non-Hodgkin's Malignant Lymphoma of the Sinonasal Tract [PDF]
, 2009 Primary non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (NHL) of the sinonasal tract are rather uncommon entities. Morphologically and radiographically, sinonasal lymphomas are difficult to distinguish from other malignant neoplasms or non- neoplastic processes.
Bhagat, Sanjeev +4 more
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Catalog of 199 register-based definitions of chronic conditions [PDF]
, 2016 Introduction: The aim of the current study was to present and discuss a broad range of register-based definitions of chronic conditions for use in register research, as well as the challenges and pitfalls when defining chronic conditions by the use of ...
Ehlers, Lars +5 more
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