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...

Prognostic value of neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in HPV-positive oropharyngeal cancer

1 October 2018 | | head and neck, lymphocyte, neutrophil, oropharynx, prognosis

The authors propose that high neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is associated with poor disease-free survival (DFS) in patients with human papillomavirus positive (HPV+) oropharyngeal cancer (OPC). This is a retrospective study that compared the outcomes of 43 patients treated for HPV+...