Journal Reviews

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How best to follow up a sinonasal cancer?

3 November 2022 | | Rhinology / Sinus | imaging, nasal endoscopy, recurrence, sinonasal cancer, sinonasal malignancies, surveillance

Sinonasal malignancies are rare tumours and, in the UK, are usually treated in tertiary treatment centres but may well be followed up long term in the patient’s local hospital, so advice on how best to manage these patients is invaluable....

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Should we be utilising the pre-lacrimal approach for maxillary sinus inverted papilloma?

2 September 2022 | | Rhinology / Sinus | maxillary sinus, paranasal sinus neoplasms, papilloma, inverted, endoscopy, Caldwell–Luc, treatment outcome, prelacrimal recess, recurrence, systematic review, meta-analysis

For some time now, gold standard management of the maxillary sinus inverted papilloma has been endoscopic medial maxillectomy (EMM). Recently the endoscopic prelacrimal recess approach (EPLRA) has been reported to provide good access whilst preserving the nasolacrimal duct and inferior...

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Serum biomarkers for CRSwNP

5 January 2022 | | ENT, Maxillofacial Surgery, Rhinology / Sinus | Lund Mackay score, Pentraxin-3, Sinonasal Outcome Test 22, biomarkers, chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis, immunoglobulin E, interleukin-17, polyposis recurrence, sinusitis

This cross-sectional comparative study looked at 50 patients with nasal polyps who, at the time of diagnosis, also had a blood test evaluating serum total IgE, IL-17 and Pentraxin-3. The study assesses whether these blood markers are useful in the...

Inverted papilloma

27 February 2020 | | Rhinology / Sinus, Skull Base Surgery | Inverted papilloma, malignant transformation, recurrence

This Croatian study aimed to look at risk factors associated with malignant transformation and recurrence in 91 cases in a single institution over a 20-year period. There were 66 men and 25 women included in the study. The authors reported...

Hierarchy of orthognathic surgical stability

27 February 2020 | | Head and Neck | orthognathic surgery, overview of systematic reviews, recurrence, stability, systematic review

This study was designed as “an overview” of secondary studies and analysed 15 articles. Two procedures were considered highly unstable: a bilateral sagittal split osteotomy for clockwise rotation of the mandible with bi-cortical screw rigid internal fixation, and posterior maxillary...

Risk factors for loco regional recurrence for oral SCC

1 March 2018 | | Locoregional recurrence, Multivariate analysis, Oral squamous cell carcinoma, Risk factors

Over 250,000 cases of oral squamous cell carcinomas are diagnosed annually worldwide with 128,000 registered deaths. The authors of this study are from a single institution in Germany and have conducted a retrospective audit of 517 patients with oral SCC...

Maxillary osteotomy stability

1 January 2017 | | Le Fort, orthognathic surgery, osteotomy, recurrence

This systematic review assesses inferior repositioning of the maxilla six months after surgery. Two articles were identified with a total of 22 patients. The repositioning was of a mean of 3.2 to 4.5mm anteriorly and 0.1 to 1.8mm posteriorly. Six...

Contemporary UK experience of oropharyngeal transoral laser microsurgery

1 September 2016 | | carcinoma, laser therapy/methods, local, neoplasm recurrence, oropharyngeal neoplasms/mortality, oropharyngeal neoplasms/surgery, squamous cell/surgery, survival analysis

It is well recognised that the current emergence of HPV-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) as a distinct disease entity requires a fresh look at standard treatment modalities that are based on chemoradiotherapy for stage III/IVa OPSCC. The Newcastle experience...