Early postoperative serum albumin levels as predictors of surgical outcomes in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Background: Malnutrition is a common issue in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and has a negative effect on surgical outcomes.

Objective: We attempted to determine which malnutrition diagnostic variables can be used as predictors of postoperative complications in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Methods: Forty-one patients undergoing surgery for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma were submitted to a prospective evaluation.

[Association of chronic pulmonary obstructive disease (COPD) and complications in head and neck surgery].

COPD presents in a variety of forms patients with head and neck cancer; it may affect therapeutic decision-making or postoperative outcomes due to its complications. To correlate the severity of COPD in patients with head and neck SCC treated with surgery, who present postoperative complications. A retrospective analysis of 31 patients undergoing en bloc resections, from 2008 to 2009.

Transillumination-guided study of the endoscopic anatomy of the lacrimal fossa.

Unlabelled: Dacryocystorhinostomy is the treatment of choice for the obstruction of the lachrymal apparatus. At the end of last century, the development of the endoscopic instruments for nasosinusal surgery has made it possible to do it through the endoscopic pathway. Nonetheless, anatomical variations make it difficult to have reproducibility endonasaly.

Colonic carcinoid tumors: a clinicopathologic study of 23 patients from a single institution.

Context: Colonic carcinoids, excluding those arising in the appendix, have proved to be extremely rare. Due to their rarity, the characteristics and behavior of this unusual malignancy remain unclear.

Objective: To review the clinicopathologic features of patients operated on carcinoid tumors of the colon.

Surgical stoma recurrence after total laringectomy.

Unlabelled: Stoma recurrence after total laryngectomy is one of the most severe developments of squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx. Risk factors most strongly implicated in stoma recurrence have been subglottic invasion by the laryngeal tumor and tracheotomy prior to laryngectomy.

Aim: Study the clinical findings of patients who underwent total laryngectomy and evaluate the probable risk factors to the development of stoma recurrence.

Acute sinusitis in children: a retrospective study of orbital complications.

Unlabelled: Among the complications of sinusitis, those that involve the orbital region are the most frequent.

Aim: the objective of this paper is to show an incidence of orbital cellulites (OC) secondary to acute sinusitis in children.

Study Design: retrospective.

Epidemiological analysis of structural alterations of the nasal cavity associated with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA).

Aim: The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that structural alterations of the nasal cavity, e.g. septal deviation and conchal hypertrophy have high incidence in patients with sleep apnea and hypopnea syndrome and must be addressed with associated specific procedures of the syndrome.

The treatment with a COX-2 specific inhibitor is effective in the management of pain related to endometriosis.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 specific inhibitors versus placebo in the treatment of endometriosis-associated pelvic pain.

Study Design: A group of women (n = 28) with pelvic pain after conservative surgery for symptomatic endometriosis (Stage I and II) were enrolled at the Department of Pediatric, Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine of University of Siena. A treatment with a COX-2 specific inhibitors (rofecoxib, 25mg per day) (n = 16) or placebo (n = 12) was given for 6 months.

A danazol-loaded intrauterine device decreases dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain, and dyspareunia associated with endometriosis.

A danazol-loaded intrauterine device (IUD) containing 300-400 mg of danazol was inserted for 6 months in a group of women (n = 18) (median age 36.6 years; age range: 30 to 46 years) with a histologic diagnosis of endometriosis, referred for recurrent pelvic pain. Dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, and pelvic pain significantly decreased after the first month, with a persistent effect during the 6 months of IUD insertion.

[Squamous cell carcinoma of the mouth in the elderly in São Paulo].

Objective: To assess the influence of sex and primary tumor location on the outcome of mouth cancer in elderly patients.

Methods: A retrospective study of 1,440 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of mouth in the Head and Neck Department of Heliópolis Hospital, São Paulo during 1978-1997 period. There were 562 elderly patients (aged 60 or more years, according to WHO criteria for developing countries) and 878 patients younger than 60 years old.

Predictive factors for diagnosis of advanced-stage squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

Objective: To identify the predictive factors (with emphasis on diagnostic delay) associated with the diagnosis of an advanced-clinical stage head and neck cancer.

Design: Cross-sectional study of patients with head and neck cancer originally recruited for a case-control study.

Setting: Three referral oncological centers in metropolitan areas in southern Brazil: São Paulo, Curitiba, and Goiânia.