Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
June 2023
Carotid body tumors are slow growing neck masses that arise from the neural crest cells at the carotid bifurcation. Majority are asymptomatic and are diagnosed incidentally. Surgical excision is accepted as the treatment of choice to reduce complications.
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April 2023
Unlabelled: Acinic cell carcinoma (A.C.C.
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October 2022
The opportunistic infection of post-Covid associated mucormycosis has been reported globally; however, it has reached alarming proportions in India. Mucormycosis of the mandibular region is rare, and only a few cases have been reported to date. Covid associated mucormycosis has not been reported in the literature before, and we are the first to report them.
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October 2022
The predisposing factors of invasive fungal disease in COVID 19 infection are still debatable because of the limited human understanding of the virus with the current literature. In this study, we have tried to correlate the various predisposing factors influencing the clinical profile and treatment outcomes in patients with covid associated mucormycosis (CAM). It is a retrospective analysis of cases of CAM during the second wave of COVID 19 infection, which was managed in the department of Otorhinolaryngology from Dec 1, 2020, to June 10, 2021.
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