Journal Reviews

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Retrospective review of paediatric salivary gland tumours

3 November 2023 | | Head and Neck | Paediatric, salivary gland tumors

As is the case with adults, primary tumours of the salivary glands in children comprise a heterogeneous collection of different histological types. This paper presents a retrospective review of primary salivary gland tumours in children treated over the course of...

The nice therapist effect: does the therapeutic relationship matter?

3 July 2023 | | Speech and Language Therapy | speech-language pathology, client-clinician relationship, common factors, salivary gland, therapeutic relationship, working alliance

Quality of relationships is considered a core component of all speech and language therapy work, yet there is little agreement of what constitutes a therapeutic relationship. This study describes a scoping review to map existing evidence that has investigated this...

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...

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Understanding osseointegration for the otologist

1 September 2019 | | Auditory Implants | Bone conduction implant, Conductive hearing loss, Osseoimmunology, Osseointegration, Single-sided deafness, salivary gland

Bone conduction implants are hearing devices that require osseointegration to create a stable and reliable interface between the hearing device and the skull to deliver sound to the cochlea. This article reviews the physiology of osseointegration, factors that may lead...

Core or fine needle assessment in lymphadenopathy and salivary gland tumours

1 March 2019 | | Head and Neck | cervical lymphadenopathy, core-needle biopsy, salivary gland tumour

This paper from the Republic of Korea analyses 278 patients retrospectively, 112 of which underwent fine need aspiration and 166 core needle biopsies. Eleven patients had indeterminate fine needle aspiration cytology, six of whom had an additional core biopsy. The...

We should all use ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy when investigating salivary gland lesions

1 July 2018 | | Core needle biopsy, fine needle, minor salivary glands, salivary gland, parotid glands, salivary glands, submandibular glands

Ultrasound core needle biopsy of salivary glands is an excellent diagnostic tool in terms of accuracy (both sensitivity and specificity), technical performance, and safety profile. This paper provided an update of the previous meta-analysis of the same question, which found...

Neck dissection in adenoid cystic carcinoma is a risk worth taking?

9 October 2017 | | SEER program, adenoid cystic carcinoma, head and neck cancer, lymph node, neoplasm metastasis, salivary gland cancer

This paper from Stanford University presents impressive figures to guide the debate on the extent of surgical management in adenoid cystic disease. Adenoid cystic carcinomas present a particular problem in that they can recur even after 20 years. They have...

Paediatric salivary gland tumours

1 September 2015 | | Hemangioma, Pediatric ear/nose/throat, Pediatric tumors head and neck, minor salivary glands

This is a review article of a rare group of neoplasms that frequently present as painless preauricular mass in older children. There is a wide differential including first branchial arch abnormalities, inflammatory and granulomatous processes. Those masses that are painless,...