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Upper Airway Obstruction due to Kaposi Sarcoma—Presenting Sign of HIV: Case Report and Review

The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
This study presents a case of undiagnosed HIV presenting with Kaposi sarcoma (KS) of the head and neck with acute upper airway obstruction (UAO) and provides an updated scoping literature review to examine the patient characteristics, lesion characteristics, interventions, and outcomes of KS cases with UAO from the pharynx, larynx, and/or trachea.
Zachary A. Wykoff, Logan F. McColl, Robert A. Baiocchi, Matthew O. Old   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extra-large Rare Parotid Sialolith - A Case Report and Review of Literature

RGUHS Journal of Dental Sciences
Sialoliths comprising 30 of all salivary gland diseases can lead to excretory duct obstruction. Predominantly affecting the submaxillary gland 83 to 94 followed by the parotid 4 to 10 and sublingual glands 1 to 7 these concretions ...
Neelakamal Hallur, Aaisha Siddiqa, Syed Zakaullah, Chaitanya Kothari, Shereen Fatima, Manazir Hussain, Neha Mustare   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Staphylococcus aureus in the oral cavity: a three-year retrospective analysis of clinical laboratory data [PDF]

, 2003
OBJECTIVE: A retrospective analysis of laboratory data to investigate the isolation of Staphylococcus aureus from the oral cavity and facial area in specimens submitted to a regional diagnostic oral microbiology laboratory.
A J Smith, AJ Smith, AP Fraise, D MacKenzie, D Robertson, E Theilade, G Dahlen, J Bagg, J Bagg, JJ Jacobson, JM Jobbins, LP Samaranayake, M K Tang, M S Jackson, MH Goldberg, MK Owen, MS Jackson, MV Martin, P Rousseau, PA Kondell, RS Percival, T Rossi, TW MacFarlane, Y Miyake, Y Tawara   +24 more
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Mesna in Otologic Surgery: Efficacy and Safety—A Scoping Review

The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
PRISMA flow diagram indicating the process of systematic inclusion and exclusion of articles. ABSTRACT Objective Mesna (Sodium 2‐mercaptoethanesulfonate) is widely used as a mucolytic agent and uroprotective agent. Recently, its disulfide bond‐breaking property has been applied in otologic surgery to facilitate safer dissection of cholesteatoma and ...
Kevork H. Atamian, Inabat Yermesheva, Ostap Orishchak, Hady Tall, Sam J. Daniel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kimura Disease of Parotid Gland

International Journal of Human and Health Sciences (IJHHS), 2019
Kimura disease is a rare, benign, chronic inflammatory disorder. Characteristic features of the disease include painless subcutaneous mass in the head and neck region, elevated serum eosinophilia and markedly raised serum immunoglobulin E. Herein, we report a case of Kimura disease in a patient who presented with a parotid mass and received both ...
Muhammad Hazim Abdul Ghafar, Amy Oon, Nik Mohd Yunus Mohammad, İrfan Mohamad   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Effectiveness of abatacept for patients with Sjögren’s syndrome associated with rheumatoid arthritis. An open label, multicenter, one-year, prospective study: ROSE (Rheumatoid Arthritis with Orencia Trial toward Sjögren’s syndrome Endocrinopathy) trial [PDF]

, 2016
Objective: To clarify the efficacy and safety of abatacept for secondary Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).Methods: The primary endpoint of this open-labeled, prospective, observational multicenter study for secondary SS ...
Asashima Hiromitsu, Ebe Hiroshi, Hagiwara Shinya, Hirata Shintaro, Hirota Tomoya, Honda Fumika, Horai Yoshiro, Kawakami Atsushi, Kondo Yuya, Kurata Izumi, Matsumoto Isao, Miki Haruka, Nakamura Hideki, Ohyama Ayako, Saito Kazuyoshi, Sumida Takayuki, Takahashi Hidenori, Takahashi Hiroyuki, Tanaka Yoshiya, Tsuboi Hiroto, Umeda Naoto, Yagishita Mizuki, Yokosawa Masahiro, 三木 春香, 住田 孝之, 坪井 洋人, 松本 功, 浅島 弘充, 髙橋 広行   +28 more
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Choice and Death: Analysis of Medical Assistance in Dying for Head and Neck Cancer in Ontario

The Laryngoscope, EarlyView.
The uptake of MAiD for head and neck cancer (HNC) has been steadily increasing since 2016, when MAiD first became available in Canada. Our study projects a substantial increase in the future use of MAiD for patients with HNC. As such, our health system needs to re‐evaluate and implement the necessary infrastructure to support the projected increase in ...
Tanika Curry, Emily Wener, Michael Odell, Lisa Caulley, Rashi Ramchandani, Alyssa Grant, Kednapa Thavorn, Andrea Lasso, Shaun Kilty   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Venous malformations with multiple phleboliths arising from the parotid gland: A case report

Acta Oto-Laryngologica Case Reports
Phleboliths are calcified thrombi that occur in vascular channels associated with venous malformations. When phleboliths are located in the salivary gland, they are difficult to differentiate from sialolithiasis due to the similarities in their clinical ...
Takahiro Suzuki, Naoya Noguchi, Fumi Shoji, Yutaka Tateda, Muneharu Yamazaki, Teruyuki Sato, Akina Shirotori, Nobuo Ohta   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Preauricular Pilomatricoma Manifesting as an Aggressive Mass

Oman Medical Journal, 2019
Pilomatricoma is an uncommon benign skin tumor arising from the hair follicle. It usually occurs in the head and neck region and is typically found in the pediatric age group particularly girls.
Phing Phing Tang, Santhi Kalimuthu, Sha’ariyah Mohd Mokhtar, Shahawiah Abdul Wahab   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Juvenile parotitis [PDF]

, 2012
In parotitis, one or both of the parotid glands swell, causing pain while eating, reduced mouth opening, and in some cases fever. Before the vaccination era, mumps was the commonest cause of childhood parotitis. Nowadays acute pediatric parotitis is rare,
Saarinen, Riitta
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