Journal Reviews

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An advance in imaging for sinonasal tumours?

5 July 2022 | | Rhinology / Sinus | apparent diffusion coefficient, benign, diffusion-weighted, dynamic contrast enhanced, functional imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, malignant, masses, sinonasal, time signal intensity

Benign sinonasal growths are incredibly common, and malignant sinonasal growths thankfully rare. We know that malignant tumours often present late, and the imaging can sometimes be misleading, so the authors here compare using diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), dynamic contrast enhanced...

Inverted papilloma

27 February 2020 | | Rhinology / Sinus, Skull Base Surgery | Inverted papilloma, malignant transformation, recurrence

This Croatian study aimed to look at risk factors associated with malignant transformation and recurrence in 91 cases in a single institution over a 20-year period. There were 66 men and 25 women included in the study. The authors reported...

Management of oral white patches with malignant potential

1 November 2017 | | malignant, management, proliferative verrucous leukoplakia

This paper focuses on a rare but aggressive form of leukoplakia with malignant potential and is an important reminder of the need for specialist management to those in allied specialties such as ENT that may initially be referred these oral...

Evidence for diagnostic role of narrow band imaging in the outpatient setting for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

1 November 2017 | | chronic laryngitis, dysplasia, endoscopy, head and neck cancer, narrow band imaging, premalignant lesions, squamous cell carcinoma

Narrow band imaging (NBI) uses light in the blue and green spectrum to differentiate areas of carcinoma from normal or inflammatory tissue. This tertiary referral head and neck unit in Spain used white light endoscopy as initial screening for all...