Richard (Wei Chern) Gan

ENT Skull Base Fellow

Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Australia.

JOURNAL REVIEWED: The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery

Latest Contribution

What is the prognostic value of lymph node yield and density in head and neck cancer?

1 September 2018 | | head and neck cancer, lymph node ratio, lymph node yield, prognostic value, systematic review

Neck dissection in addition to surgery of the primary site is commonly recommended in head and neck cancer treatment. However, there has been no consensus on the number of nodes that need to be removed to constitute a sufficient neck...

What to do with incidental findings on FDG PET/CT?

1 July 2018 | | CT, PET, PET/CT, findings, head and neck cancer, imaging, incidental

18F-fluoro-deoxy-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) is commonly used in head and neck cancer staging. This investigation frequently identifies incidental findings unrelated to the index head and neck cancer. To assess the nature of these incidental findings, notes of...

Preoperative CT checklist (using the ‘CLOSE’ mnemonic) improves identification of anatomical variants for endoscopic sinus surgery

1 July 2018 | | CLOSE criteria, ESS, checklist, preoperative evaluation, resident training, sinus CT, sinus surger

Computed tomography (CT) scans of the paranasal sinuses act as roadmaps for endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) and careful inspection preoperatively warns the operating surgeon of critical anatomical variants. This study aimed to investigate if implementation of a pre-ESS CT checklist...