OBJECTIVE The urgent nature of head and neck cancer referrals often results in overbooked schedules, access delays, and patient, physician, and staff dissatisfaction. The goal of this study is to examine how incorporation of associate providers (APs) into a head and neck tumor clinic (HNTC) can improve access. METHODS Scheduling data for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock HNTC 2 years prior (January 201...

The number of aged patients with head and neck cancer is increasing. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome of elderly patients with head and neck cancer undergoing surgery. Retrospective analysis of a series of 1509 consecutive patients separated in two groups regarding their age: younger than 70 and older than 70 years, with head and neck tumors treated surgically was performed. Pr...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate tissue electrical properties in patients with head and neck cancer. METHODS In the cross-sectional study direct bioimpedance measures (resistance, reactance, and phase angle) determined by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) were performed on 31 patients with head and neck cancer and 31 healthy volunteers matched by age and sex as a c...

BACKGROUND In a previous study of robot-assisted neck dissection (RAND), we limited the indication for neck dissection in clinical N0 head and neck cancer. The purpose of this study was for us to present the comparison of the results of therapeutic RAND via a retroauricular or modified facelift approach with outcomes from conventional neck dissection in clinical node-positive head and neck canc...

granular cell tumor is a rare benign neoplasm most commonly appears in the head and neck region, especially in the tongue, cheek mucosa, and palate. occurrence in limbs is even rarer. these tumors account for approximately 0.5% of all soft tissue tumors. granular cell tumor can also affect other organs including skin, breast, and lungs. local recurrence and metastasis is potentially higher in m...

BACKGROUND Estimation of attributable fractions for tobacco and alcohol, and investigation of the association between body mass index (BMI) and head and neck cancer risk have largely been in case-control studies. These aspects and physical activity need to be assessed as possible head and neck cancer risk/protective factors in a cohort study. METHODS In the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ova...

Species diagnosis in Trogolaphysa has been based, until now, almost exclusively on number of eyes and shape of claws and mucro. Chaetotaxy, a character system important to diagnose species in other genera of scaled Entomobryoidea, has been described only for a few Trogolaphysa species. Here the complete dorsal chaetotaxy of six species of Trogolaphysa is described using the AMS and Szeptycki's ...