BACKGROUND AND AIM The diode laser combined with Er:YAG laser is a new treatment modality for acute sialadenitis. A 78-year-old woman with acute suppurative parotitis was treated by traditional probe to the duct orifice with oral antibiotics for 2 weeks. The symptoms and signs did not subside after treatment. The Er:YAG laser was used to reduce severe infection and inflammation and low level la...

OBJECTIVE To describe our experience with therapeutic sialendoscopy for radioiodine (iodine 131 [(131)I]) sialadenitis. DESIGN Retrospective medical chart review. SETTING Academic tertiary referral center. PATIENTS The study included 11 patients who underwent therapeutic sialendoscopy for the treatment of (131)I sialadenitis after failing medical management. INTERVENTIONS Therapeutic si...

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 Dudak damak yarıkları (DDY) kraniyofasiyal bölgede en sık görülen malformasyonlardır. Nazopalatin kanal (NPK) genellikle maksiller orta hatta ve insizör dişlerin posteriorunda bulunur. Kanal oral kaviteye insiziv foramen (IF) aracılığı ile açılır; nazal septumun her iki tarafında Stensen (SF) kavitede sonlanır. DDY'li hastalarda oluşan çeşitli anatomik dental değişikliklere bağlı o...

The Video can be viewed in the online version of this article [https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.12.097] on https://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org.During a mission Kinshasa Democratic Republic Congo 2019, case ectopia cordis was diagnosed (Video). This amazing video shows newborn opening its eyes with an extrathoracic beating heart.The 1900 g boy born at 33 weeks’ gestation transferre...

Ectopia cordis in man is a relatively rare anomaly and has been known for many years, being first reported in 1671 by Neil Stensen (Willius, 1948). A translation of the relevant excerpt from Stensen's article reads, ". . . the sternum was split and the heart, liver and spleen, most of the intestine and right kidney have passed out through the split being thus uncovered." This description is und...

introduction: solitary fibrous tumor is a rare, mesenchymal neoplasm that has been reported in numerous sites. occurrence in the parotid gland is exceedingly rare.   case report: a 53-year-old man with a 2 cm solitary fibrous tumor of the left parotid gland, that was observed clinically and operatively and thought to be a neoplasm arising from stensen's duct, is described. a pre-operative ...

Conditions have fluctuated a good deal in the last 'leaps' but these changes, like waves on the ocean, had little effect on the working up and down of traditional medicine which is the main element of Chinese life itself. Contradictions in a socialist society are fundamentally different from those in the old societies. Traditional medicine, a faithful reflection of Chinese culture, is a first-r...