Publications by authors named "A Giotakis"

Metastases of cutaneous melanoma to the paranasal sinuses and nasopharynx are considered rare. We reported the case of a patient with cutaneous melanoma metastasizing to the left anterior infundibulum and seven months later to the right nasopharynx that was successfully treated by endonasal endoscopic surgery as a single treatment modality. No adjuvant radiotherapy was performed.

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Background and objective The treatment of early-stage laryngeal glottic cancer involves surgery or radiotherapy, and both have similar survival rates. However, discrepancies between systematic reviews in the literature point towards the continuous need for more data. In this study, we aimed to investigate the oncologic value of surgery at an ENT university department of a tertiary hospital in Greece.

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Advances in cancer therapeutics have improved patient survival rates. However, cancer survivors may suffer from adverse events either at the time of therapy or later in life. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) represent a clinically important, but mechanistically understudied complication, which interfere with the continuation of best-possible care, induce life-threatening risks, and/or lead to long-term morbidity.

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Background: Parotid gland agenesis is a rare, congenital, usually asymptomatic disorder. Until now, only 24 cases with unilateral, incidentally found, parotid gland agenesis have been described. Here, we present the first reported case of an ipsilateral preauricular neoplasm in a patient with unilateral parotid gland agenesis.

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