Stuart Clark (ENT)

Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon

Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK.

Latest Contribution

Sublingual gland tumour resection

2 March 2022 | | ENTA-Head & Neck | Neoplasm invasiveness, Pathology, Salivary gland neoplasms, Sublingual gland, Treatment outcome

This paper from South Korea analyses the pathology arising from 20 malignant sublingual gland tumours. Adenoid cystic carcinoma followed by mucoepidermoid carcinomas were the most common. Tumour invasion into the lingual nerve was detected in 40% of cases, and into...

Clinical pathological features associated with malignant change in oral leukoplakias

2 March 2022 | | ENTA-Head & 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 | | ENTA-Head & 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...