... in the gut of the sandfly,but the organism completes its life cycle in the host following the fly bite. The sandfly inoculates the host with the organismsin the promastigote stage. Once the ... manifestations in the headand neck. HSV-1 and HSV-2Infection with HSVs may result in significant head and neck manifestations. The severity seems to depend on the immune state of the infected person. ... and Infectious Disease / HEADANDNECK INFECTIONSInfectious Diseases of theHeadand Neck A ReviewKathleen T. Montone, MDKey Words: Infectious diseases; Headand neck; Bacteria; Fungus; Protozoa;...
... in the field of the pathology of theheadand neck. As such they are the main members of the Working Group on Pathology of theHeadandNeck of the European Society of Pathology, one of the ... “Pathology of the HeadandNeck is that the proximity of the organs of theheadandneck region makes it difficult for the surgical pathologist to focus on one of these organs and neglect the pathology ... the manifold aspects of the morphology and pathology of the organs of thehead and neck region. These description, as comprehensive as they may be, also show that there are some areas of the...
... of age and has no gender pre-dominance [2]. The vast majority of BCACs occur in the parotid gland (about 90%) [3-5], followed b y the sub-mandibular gland and minor salivary glands [6]. The 2005 ... contributionsKJ and AH conceived the idea, did the literature search and prepared the manuscript. KJ, AH, JM, HB, TM and HT performed treatment and follow-up and acquisition of data. TK and HT provided ... defined as the physicaldoses multiplied by the RBE of the carbon ions. The biological flatness of the SOBP was normalized by the survival fraction of human salivary gland tumor cells at the distal...
... for each of the raters using the respective other raters as reference, that is, the mean of the four other raters for the LE group and the three other raters for the OC group. For the comparisonbetween ... raterversus the mean value of the other raters andthe mean of the ratersversus the speech recognition system. The correlation is negativefor the latter because the scales for the evaluations ... between the trachea andthe oesophagus. Then the patient can createan artificial substitute voice by breathing in and closing the hole in the neck. When the patient breathes out, the air willbe...
... guide to neck dissection classification and TNMstaging of headandneck cancer / Committee for Neck DissectionClassification, American HeadandNeck Society [and] Committee for Head andNeck Surgery ... guide to neck dissection classification and TNM staging of head and neck cancer. — 3rd ed. / Committee for HeadandNeck Surgery and Oncol-ogy, American Academy of Otolaryngology HeadandNeck Surgery ... Sharma, Anand K.IV. Kies, Merrill S. V. American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. Committee for HeadandNeck Surgery and Oncology. VI.American HeadandNeck Society. Neck Dissection...
... demonstrated improved locoregion al control and overall survival by adding chemotherapy to radiotherapyconcurrently [10]. The Meta-Analysis of Chemotherapy in Head andNeck Cancer (MACH-NC) study showed ... did not complete chemoradiation and had resect-able residual disease at the primary site or in the neck. Patients were evaluated by CT scan or MRI of the head andneck every three months. Informed ... to surgery and stan-dard radiotherapy alone [12].In Taiwan, for public healthy insurance, cisplatin is the backbone of the chemotherapy regimen as a componentof IC and CCRT in the treatment...
... demonstrated improved locoregion al control and overall survival by adding chemotherapy to radiotherapyconcurrently [10]. The Meta-Analysis of Chemotherapy in Head andNeck Cancer (MACH-NC) study showed ... did not complete chemoradiation and had resect-able residual disease at the primary site or in the neck. Patients were evaluated by CT scan or MRI of the head andneck every three months. Informed ... contributionsTJC and CHC conceived the study design, carried out and coordinatedimmunohistochemical examinations of tumor specimens and data analysis, and drafted the manuscript. CYC and HTT participated...
... related to the chemotherapyregimen andthe technique and fractionation of radio-therapy. The symptoms usually become more severewith treatment and remain for weeks after the end oftherapy [1]. ... participated in the design of the study and clinical evaluations. MKparticipated in the design of the study and clinical evaluations, and carriedout the writing of the manuscript. SB, RAB, AS, TP and MS ... radiation dose and technique and the heterogeneity in the chemotherapy regimens employed,especially in the neoadjuvant setting. Therefore, thispilot study can only give an indication, and furtherstudies...
... forachieving the best fitness of the defined C-pGTV fromboth the tumor volume andthe morphology. To sim-plify the volume analysis, only signals overlying the pGTV were chosen. The volumetric data of the ... PETFigure 5 The correlation curve between the suitable thresholdlevel andthe SUVmax.Figure 6 The association between the suitable threshold level and the CT-based GTV.Figure 7 The correlation ... between the SUVmax and the C-pGTV values in our patient cohort (Figure 4).Also, there was no correlation between the maximumtumor diameter andthe SUVmax.Correlation of sTL with C-pGTV and SUVmaxTable...
... pathologically and reviewed within the multidis-ciplinary head- and- neck team. As part of the study, the imaging of the all patients who experienced LRR wasreviewed by a headandneck specialist ... Calais G: Final results of the 94-01 French Head andNeck Oncology and Radiotherapy Group randomized trialcomparing radiotherapy alone with concomitant radiochemotherapy inadvanced-stage oropharynx ... radiotherapy in headandneck cancer: a meta-analysis.Lancet 2006, 368:843-854.7. Lee N, Puri DR, Blanco AI, Chao KS: Intensity-modulated radiation therapyin headandneck cancers: an update. Head...
... BodyRadiotherapy for Locally Recurrent Head- and- Neck Tumors. Int J RadiatOncol Biol Phys .14. Langlois D, Eschwege F, Kramar A, Richard JM: Reirradiationof the head andneck cancers. Radiother ... in 2-6 fractions of SRT. The 1- and 3-yearlocal failure-free survival rates were 70% and 51% for the SRS group and 91% and 83% for the SRT group (P= 0.003). Although the overall survival rates ... reirradiation alone or with che-motherapy. The likelihood of cure is impacted by the interval between the initial course of radiotherapy and reirradiation depending on, whether the carcinoma is arecurrence...