Stuart Clark (ENT)

Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon

Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK.

Latest Contribution

Clinical pathological features associated with malignant change in oral leukoplakias

2 March 2022 | | Head and Neck | carcinoma, leukoplakia, mouth neoplasms, oral, Oral squamous cell carcinoma

This is a retrospective study from Sweden where 234 patients, diagnosed between 2003 and 2013 with a median nine-year follow-up, were reviewed. Of these 234 patients, 11.5% developed oral squamous cell carcinoma. Non-homogenous leukoplakia showed a 15-times higher transformation rate...

Core biopsies are good enough for lymphomas

1 July 2021 | | Head and Neck | Lymphoma, diagnostic efficacy, head and neck cancer, lymphoma diagnosis, ultrasound-guided core biopsy

This paper, from the South of England, has reviewed ultrasound-guided core needle biopsies over a six-year period investigating the use of the detection of head and neck lymphomas. There were 367 samples included from 226 patients; 215 of the 226...

Structures determining T4a, T4b

1 July 2021 | | Head and Neck | compartment surgery, masticator space, oral cancer, survival, unresectable tumours

This paper for tertiary cancer centre in India attempted to determine whether patients with T4b oral cancers involving the 'masticator space' should be treated with survival intent comparable to T4a cancers. Over a 7-year period, 30 patients with T4b cancers...