Management of oral feeding following total laryngectomy around the world: YO-IFOS international study.

Background: To analyze worldwide practices regarding the initiation of oral feeding after total laryngectomy (TL).

Methods: Online survey.

Results: Among the 332 responses received, 278 from 59 countries were analyzed.

Submental Artery Island Flap in Oral Cavity Reconstruction. An Observational, Retrospective Two-centre Study.

 The submental flap provides an alternative technique in orofacial reconstruction, especially in situations in which free flaps are not available, or the patients are unfit.  To demonstrate the oncological safety and benefits of this flap in oral cavity reconstruction.  A total of 14 patients with oral cavity cancers, who underwent submental flap reconstruction from January 2016 to January 2018, were included in the study.

Surgical management of thyroid cancer.

Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine neoplasm; however, it only accounts for less than 1% of all human malignances. Thyroid cancers are divided into well differentiated and non-well differentiated cancers, according to their histology and behavior. The surgical management options of well-differentiated thyroid cancer include total or near-total thyroidectomy, subtotal thyroidectomy and lobectomy plus isthmusectomy.