Journal Reviews

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Simple preoperative tests predicting outcomes for ESS patients?

4 May 2021 | | Rhinology / Sinus | Lund-Kennedy Endoscopic Score, Mometasone Furoate, SNOT-2, chronic rhinosinusitis, disease control, endoscopic sinus surgery, eosinophils, nasal cytology, nasal polyps, neutrophils

We are all familiar with patients suffering extensive nasal polyps who relapse all to soon after careful and thorough endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS). This paper looks to answer whether we can predict which patients will do well, and which less...

Clinical histopathology of 250 parotidectomy patients

30 April 2020 | | Head and Neck | OMFS, fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC), oral and maxillofacial surgery, parotid gland tumour, parotidectomy, salivary gland

Clinical histopathology of 250 parotidectomy patients This is a retrospective study of 250 consecutive parotidectomy patients at units in Belgium and the Netherlands. The sensitivity and specificity of FNAC was 64% and 99% respectively, the sensitivity being slightly lower than...

The lateral neck cystic mass – diagnostic dilemma. Can HPV status help?

1 January 2019 | | Branchial cleft cyst, Cystic lymph node metastasis, Cystic neck mass, Fine needle aspiration cytology, HPV DNA

Solitary cystic masses in the lateral neck can present a significant diagnostic dilemma as they can be metastases from tumours of the oro or nasopharynx. This retrospective paper detailed all patients presenting to a university hospital in Germany, from September...

Expanding the role of FNA in thyroid nodule decision-making

1 November 2016 | | BRAF, cytology, fine-needle aspiration (FNA), papillary thyroid cancer, preoperative diagnosis

Papillary thyroid cancer, the commonest histological type, has been extensively reported as having BRAF proto-oncogene mutations (most commonly the V600E mutation). There is great interest in BRAF as a molecular marker, particularly as a prognostic factor that may guide the...