The Patients' Characteristics And Non-Surgical Treatment Results For Hypopharyngeal Cancer In Southeast Of Iran: A 13-Year Study.

Background: Various modalities have been used to treat hypopharyngeal cancer. Non- surgical modalities include radiotherapy alone, sequential chemoradiation and concomitant chemoradiation or bio radiation. This study was conducted to evaluate the primary non-surgical treatment.

Biofilm formation and molecular analysis of intercellular adhesion gene cluster among strains isolated from children with adenoiditis.

Background And Objectives: It is well known that biofilm plays an important role in adenoiditis and biofilm resistance frequently results in failure of therapy. The goal of this study was to evaluate the biofilm production of isolates obtained from adenoid specimens and assess the relationship between biofilm formation ability and operon genes.

Materials And Methods: A total of 112 adenoid samples were obtained from patients under 15 years old with adenoid hypertrophy.

Autologous Free Dermal-Fat-Fascial Graft for Parotidectomy Defects: A Case Series.

Background: Frey's syndrome and facial asymmetry from loss of parotid tissue are long-term sequelae of parotid surgeries causing significant morbidity. Various techniques have been used to fill the parotidectomy defect, preserve facial contour symmetry, and prevent Frey's syndrome. Free dermal-fat-fascial graft (DFFG) is one such technique; however, its use is largely undocumented in the literature.

Proximal esophageal amyloidoma presenting with life-threatening dysphagia.

Amyloidoses are abnormal deposits of insoluble proteins in tissues that can lead to tissue dysfunction. Although elderly patients often have amyloid deposition in the gastrointestinal tract, they are usually asymptomatic. When symptoms are present, they are most often functional in nature; rarely are they caused by a localized amyloid deposition (amyloidoma).