Aileen Lambert

ST7 ENT

Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

Latest Contribution

The rise of AI in the head and neck clinic

1 July 2018 | | 2015 American Thyroid Association management guideline, Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System, artificial intelligence, computer-aided diagnosis system, thyroid nodules, ultrasound

There has been a huge focus in recent months on the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in all aspects of modern life, and the head and neck clinic is no exception it appears. This paper builds on previous work to...

A mouth-rinse test that can screen for oral cancer?

1 May 2018 | | DNA methylation biomarker, PAX1, ZNF582, mouth rinse, oral cancer

This paper presents a promising screening tool for oral cancer – using a simple chlorhexidine mouth-rinse. The hypermethylated ZNF582 and PAX1 markers were chosen based on previous studies using oral scraping methods of collection and have been shown to be...

What is the evidence for duration of antibiotic prophylaxis in head and neck free-flap cases?

1 May 2018 | | clean-contaminated, free flaps, microvascular surgery, prophylactic antibiotics, surgical site infection

The topic of this systematic review is one which is commonly heard in discussions between microbiologists and head and neck surgeons – what is the evidence for antibiotic prophylaxis in clean-contaminated free-flap cases, and crucially, how long should antibiotics be...