Aileen Lambert

ST7 ENT

Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

Latest Contribution

Measuring the ‘impact’ of preoperative immunonutrition

1 September 2018 | | head and neck cancer, head and neck surgery, immunonutrition, length of hospital stay, wound infections

Using preoperative nutritional supplements as part of ‘enhanced recovery’ in surgical patients is not a new concept. This interesting paper looks at the latest development in optimising patients undergoing head and neck oncological surgery. Immunonutrition (Nestle’s ‘Oral Impact’ in this...

Applying ‘Sal classification’ to parotid cytology to replicate the success of the Thy classification system

1 September 2018 | | Sal classification, fine-needle aspiration biopsy, histopathological diagnosis, parotid gland, parotidectomy

The usefulness of the Thy classification in thyroid gland disease has led to attempts to generate a similar cytology classification for parotid lesions. However, the accuracy of fine-needle aspiration cytology in salivary gland disease is more variable because of the...

Impact of the updated cancer staging system on HPV-positive disease

1 July 2018 | | American Joint Committee on Cancer, National Cancer Data Base, human papillomavirus, oropharyngeal cancer, staging

The AJCC cancer staging manual was updated in 2017 (8th edition). It is used in the MDT setting for planning treatment and assessing prognosis for individual patients, and is also widely used internationally in clinical trials. Unlike previous iterations of...