Stuart Clark (ENT)

Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon

Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK.

Latest Contribution

Structures determining T4a, T4b

1 July 2021 | | ENTA-Head & 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...

Antibiotics in orthognathic surgery

3 March 2021 | | Maxillofacial Surgery | orthognathic surgery, osteosynthesis removal, prophylactic antibiotics, surgical site infection

This paper from the Netherlands looked at 137 patients over a one-year period, 18 of whom had Le Fort I procedures, 68 bilateral sagittal split surgery, and 51 bi-maxillary surgery. A further 54 surgical procedures were undertaken, including 15 having...

COVID-19 tracheostomies

3 March 2021 | | COVID-19, ENTA-Head & Neck | COVID-19, ICU, resource management, tracheostomy

This is a review of tracheostomies completed by an OMFS Unit in London from 10 March to 18 May 2020. A total of 176 COVID-19 patients were admitted to intensive care, 72 of which required tracheostomy due to prolonged respiratory...