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Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infection as a causative agent of fistula formation following total laryngectomy for advanced head & neck cancer [PDF]
Aims: The purpose of this paper was to investigate the impact of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infection in the aetiology of pharyngo-cutaneous fistula (PCF) formation following total laryngectomy for advanced laryngeal cancer ...
Ahmad Orabi +3 more
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ABSTRACT Background Synchronous cancers, defined as malignancies diagnosed concurrently or within 2 months of each other, are rare, with an incidence of 1%–6%. Environmental factors such as tobacco smoking play a significant role in their development. Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are at increased risk of second malignancies,
Aleksandra Nasiek +6 more
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COMPARISON OF SWALLOWING IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF PARTIAL LARYNGECTOMIES
Objective: We designed this study to assess and compare the effects of different partial laryngectomy (PL) techniques on swallowing. Material and Methods: Ten patients had laryngofissure with cordectomy, ten had frontal anterior laryngectomy with ...
Zeynep Erdoğan Çetin +5 more
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Post-laryngectomy neopharyngeal diverticulae [PDF]
Four cases with a neopharyngeal diverticulum following total laryngectomy are presented. Each patient required surgery for complications directly related to the pouch.
Farrington, WT, Hartley, C, Saeed, SR
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Counseling before laryngectomy [PDF]
AbstractCounseling of laryngectomy patients was studied by a questionnaire survey among 294 fellows of the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery and otolaryngology house officers (77% attendings and 23% residents). Seventy‐nine percent of respondents spent less than one hour counseling patients.
J F, Berkowitz, F E, Lucente
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Oncological outcomes of surgical management for T2N0M0 glottic laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma
Objectives The research aimed to evaluate the clinical treatment outcomes of T2N0M0 glottic laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) patients who underwent laryngectomy. Methods Retrospective review of 533 T2N0M0 glottic LSCC patients.
Jian Zhou +6 more
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Background: It is believed that carrying out laryngectomy in tracheotomized patients leads to higher postoperative complications and stomal recurrence compared to carrying out the procedure upfront without prior tracheotomy.
Azhar Jan Battoo MCh +3 more
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Tissue-Engineered Larynx: Future Applications in Laryngeal Cancer [PDF]
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This article reviews the latest developments in tissue engineering for the larynx with a specific focus on the treatment of laryngeal cancer. RECENT FINDINGS: Challenges in tissue engineering a total larynx can be divided into scaffold
Birchall, MA, Hamilton, NJI
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ABSTRACT Background Early‐stage glottic carcinoma is characterized by high cure rate, but about 10% of patients still develop local recurrence after radiotherapy (RT). Although advances in local therapies have markedly improved larynx preservation, anterior commissure involvement (ACI) may worsen outcomes yet remains insufficient to fully guide ...
Francesca De Felice +2 more
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An Investigation of the Post-laryngectomy Swallow Using Videofluoroscopy and Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) [PDF]
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Coffey, M +4 more
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