Frontiers in Oncology, 2014 Patients with high risk salivary gland malignancies are at increased risk of local failure. We present our institutional experience with dose escalation using hypofractionated Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT) in a subset of this rare disease.
Sana D Karam +8 more
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Parotitis-Like Symptoms Associated with COVID-19, France, March–April 2020
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 We report the clinical features of 3 patients in France who had parotitis (inflammation of the parotid salivary glands) as a clinical manifestation of confirmed coronavirus disease.
Jerome R. Lechien +9 more
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Feasibility of image-guided radiotherapy based on helical tomotherapy to reduce contralateral parotid dose in head and neck cancer [PDF]
, 2012 Background To evaluate the feasibility of image-guided radiotherapy based on helical Tomotherapy to spare the contralateral parotid gland in head and neck cancer patients with unilateral or no neck node metastases.
Abraham, Dave +14 more
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Primary parotid tuberculosis mimicking parotid neoplasm: a case report [PDF]
, 2008 Introduction Tuberculosis of the parotid gland is a rare clinical entity which causes some difficulties in diagnosis because of the similarities in presentation to that of a neoplasm.
Hakan Birkent +4 more
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Preoperative Direct Puncture Embolization of Castleman Disease of the Parotid Gland: A Case Report
Current OncologyBackground: Castleman disease (CD) is an uncommon benign lymphoproliferative disease characterized by hypervascular lymphoid hyperplasia. We present a unique case of unicentric CD of the parotid gland treated by preoperative direct puncture embolization.
Alessandro Pedicelli +6 more
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Large Differences in Small RNA Composition Between Human Biofluids. [PDF]
, 2018 Extracellular microRNAs (miRNAs) and other small RNAs are implicated in cellular communication and may be useful as disease biomarkers. We systematically compared small RNAs in 12 human biofluid types using RNA sequencing (RNA-seq).
Barczak, Andrea J +10 more
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Algorithm and performance of a clinical IMRT beam-angle optimization system
, 2003 This paper describes the algorithm and examines the performance of an IMRT beam-angle optimization (BAO) system. In this algorithm successive sets of beam angles are selected from a set of predefined directions using a fast simulated annealing (FSA ...
Bortfeld T +29 more
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Synchronous primary parotid tuberculosis and EBV-associated primary lymphoepithelial carcinoma
Indian Journal of Pathology and MicrobiologyA 48-year-old gentleman presented with complaints of neck swelling in the parotid region for 2 years. Diagnostic nasal endoscopy and video laryngeal stroboscopy were normal, and positron emission tomography scan showed no other primary lesion. The lesion
Anandhi Anbalagan +2 more
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, 2017 The oral cavity is the first component of the digestive tract, which is delimited by the lips anteriorly and the oropharynx posteriorly. The oral cavity functions as a protective barrier and is an essential component for speech and swallowing ...
Burgess, Jeff +6 more
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A case of primary Hodgkin's lymphoma of the parotid gland. Case report and differentian diagnosis from Kuttner's Syndrom [PDF]
, 2018 We report a rare case of primary Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL) of the submandibular gland, with initially diagnosis of Kuttner’s Syndrom. A 48 years old man was referred to our hospital foe evaluation of a submandibular mass.
Di Cello, P. +8 more
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