Richard (Wei Chern) Gan

ENT Consultant

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK.

JOURNAL REVIEWED: The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery

Latest Contribution

Food impaction in children is associated with eosinophilic oesophagitis

1 January 2019 | | Neurotology | dysphagia, eosinophilic esophagitis, esophageal food impaction, esophageal foreign bodies

There is an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that chronic oesophageal inflammation and motility disorders play a more significant role in oesophageal food impaction (EFI) in children compared to structural defects. The authors conducted a retrospective study of children...

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+...

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...