Stuart Clark (ENT)

Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon

Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK.

Latest Contribution

Clinical histopathology of 250 parotidectomy patients

30 April 2020 | | ENTA-Head & 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...

Extracapsular dissection versus parotidectomy

30 April 2020 | | ENTA-Head & Neck | benign parotid tumour, extracapsular dissection, literature review, superficial parotidectomy

This is a literature review of 16 papers using the PRISMA protocol. In comparing the two techniques, not surprisingly, they found that extracapsular dissection was associated with a reduced incidence of facial nerve paralysis and Frey’s syndrome and a shorter...

Bone thickness and split pattern in mandibular osteotomies

30 April 2020 | | Maxillofacial Surgery | bilateral sagittal split osteotomy, computed tomography, maxillofacial surgery, orthognathic surgery

This paper looked at 63 sagittal split ramus osteotomy sites. The type of split was classified according to the Plooij paper and bone measurements were taken at four sites. Of these sites, the thickness of the bone in one point,...