Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Patterns of Care and Outcome of Head and Neck Cancer: Real-World Experience From a Tertiary Care Cancer Center in India.

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented health, social, and economic unrest globally, particularly affecting resource-limited low-middle-income countries. The resultant curfew had made the access to and delivery of cancer care services an arduous task. We have reported the patterns of care and 1-year outcome of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) treatment before and during COVID-19 lockdown at our institution.

A pragmatic diagnostic approach to primary intracranial germ cell tumors and their treatment outcomes.

Primary intracranial germ cell tumors (ICGCT) are often diagnosed with tumor markers and imaging, which may avoid the need for a biopsy. An intracranial germ cell tumor with mild elevation of markers is seldom stratified as a distinct entity. Fifty-nine patients were stratified into three groups: pure germinoma (PG), secreting germinoma (SG) and non-germinomatous germ cell tumors (NGGCTs).

Prognostic significance of metabolic tumour volume and maximum standard uptake value of fluor-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with computed tomography in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Aim Of The Study: To evaluate the prognostic role of markers of fluor-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with computed tomography (F-FDG-PET-CT), such as maximum standard uptake value (SUV) and metabolic tumour volume (MTV) measured at primary and nodal disease, and their clinical significance in terms of predicting treatment outcomes and survival.

Material And Methods: Between January 2017 and January 2020, 20 case records of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients who underwent F-FDG-PET-CT as part of staging workup before radiotherapy and as a part of response evaluation after radiotherapy were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: At a median follow-up of 34.

Recurrent Kimura's disease of head and neck treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy.

Kimura's disease (KD) is a rare, chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown aetiology, which commonly affects men of the Asian race. Here, we present a case capsule of a 39- year-old man with KD of the left cheek, managed initially by surgery alone. He developed local recurrence after 6 months and was treated with steroids and isotretinoin.

Masseter Muscle Thickness in Unilateral Partial Edentulism: An Ultrasonographic Study.

Introduction: Teeth and facial muscles play a very important role in occlusal equilibrium and function. Occlusal derangement, seen in unilateral partially edentulous individuals, has an effect on masseter muscle anatomy and function. The present study aims to evaluate masseter muscle thickness in unilateral partial edentulism.

Pediatric hematological malignancy: Identification of issues involved in the road to diagnosis.

Introduction: Childhood malignancy, although a rare phenomenon, is still the leading cause of mortality in the pediatric population. Early diagnosis and treatment are imperative for the achievement of optimal prognosis. The study of factors facilitating the delay in diagnosis is thus of utmost importance, to both shorten the diagnostic delay and allow for early therapeutic intervention, facilitating a higher prognosis.

Focal lipoatrophy of face: a rare esthetic complaint.

A well-proportioned face combines features that are balanced and symmetrical. Any structural alteration that leads to facial asymmetry causes esthetical and psychological disturbances. Lipoatrophy is one such condition, which results in loss of subcutaneous fat layer and manifests as a depression.

Refractory seizures with global developmental delay: A rare cause.

Aicardi syndrome is a genetic disorder characterized by the triad of infantile spasm in flexion, callosal agenesis and ocular abnormalities (chorioretinal lacunae, coloboma of optic disc). We report a typical case of Aicardi syndrome with all the classical features.