Findings: There were 153 cases of mucosal head and neck cancer diagnosed between 2004 and 2009. The 2009 cases have only been fully abstracted through October when this report was run. Of the 153 cases coded to head and neck, there were 3 cases of lymphoma and one Kaposis’s sarcoma which were excluded from this analysis leaving 149 head and neck cancers of mucosal origin for this study. The stu...

CONTEXT The oropharynx microbiota plays an important role in the origin of infections, especially among alcoholics whose airway defenses are impaired. OBJECTIVE To compare the normal oropharingeal flora in heavy alcohol drinker and non-alcoholics. PATIENTS 117 persons, 58 heavy alcohol drinkers and 59 non-alcoholics. SETTING Santa Casa de São Paulo Emergency Service. DESIGN A blind pros...

INTRODUCTION Patients requiring long-term ventilation are at high risk of lower airway infections, generally of endogenous development. Patients on long-term ventilation, in particular via a tracheostomy, may develop tracheobronchitis or pneumonia of exogenous pathogenesis, ie, caused by microorganisms not carried in the oropharynx. The frequency of exogenous colonization or infection has previ...

Oropharyngeal deposition of 3.5 μm particles inhaled through an elongated mouthpiece. K. Svartengren, M. Anderson, M. Svartengren, K. Philipson, P. Camner. © ERS Journals Ltd 1996. ABSTRACT: We previously studied the deposition of inhaled particles in the oropharynx of asthmatic patients, and found that a pharyngeal narrowing during inhalation seems to be one reason for high oropharyngeal depos...

The goal of this study was to identify associations between positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) in patients presenting with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) with tumor site, size, histologic differentiation, smoking, and diabetes. Charts of patients with oropharyngeal and laryngeal SCC who underwent 18F-fluorodeoxygluco...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Squamous cell carcinomas of the oropharynx are aggressive tumours usually diagnosed at advanced stage. Their optimal treatment has not been established. The aim of this study was to compare the oncological and functional outcomes in patients with carcinomas of the oropharynx treated by radiotherapy (with chemotherapy in advanced stages) vs surgery (with radiotherapy ...

BACKGROUND Oxidative stress is a known exogenous risk factor for carcinogenesis in the head and neck. In addition to exogenous risk factors, the development of head and neck cancer is based on genetic alterations and individual mutagen sensitivity. DNA damage caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS) is not uniformly distributed over the DNA, as certain chromosomes and genes are more likely to be...

UNLABELLED The occurrence of foreign bodies in otorhinolaryngology is reason of constant searches for emergency services. OBJECTIVE To value the incidence of patients with foreign body, to analyze the clinical situation and the treatment in these cases. METHOD The prospective study was realized in 81 patients with diagnosis of foreign body of nose, ear or oropharynx in the otorhinolaryngolo...

Background and Aim: In conducting nasopharyngeal oropharyngeal swab tests of suspected COVID-19 infection, one should expect variations in depth nasopharynx oropharynx among different categories sex ethnic groups. This study aims to describe the length nose mouth local population area Jazan, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. Methods: Participants this were asymptomatic adults. Seventy participants underwen...