Publications by authors named "Ayla Tabaksert"
A multicentre observational study of paediatric head and neck abscesses.
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- Pediatric ENT surgeons in the UK noticed an unusual increase in severe head and neck abscesses during the winter of 2022/3, prompting a study to validate this trend and explore associated factors.
- A multicentre study collected data from 262 patients admitted with head and neck abscesses between September 2022 and February 2023, revealing a significant rise in group A streptococcus cases and complications like venous thrombosis during the winter months.
- Despite the observed increases in certain complications, the overall number of abscess cases fell within expected historical ranges, indicating that the winter 2022/2023 rates were consistent with pre-COVID trends in pediatric cases.
Objective: Lateral neck dissection (LND) is performed for staging/treatment of head and neck lesions. This traditionally includes placement of a drain and inpatient admission. Drainless, day-case head and neck surgery is attractive due to cost-effectiveness and reduced length of stay, but evidence is lacking in LND.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFare common commensals of the oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract and urogenital tract. They are anaerobic, Gram-positive, non-acid-fast bacilli, which can cause invasive infection and abscesses. We present the first reported case of supraglottitis and deep neck space abscess formation secondary to infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To investigate the effects of adding high-grade quantitative evidence of outcomes of treatments into relevant Wikipedia pages on further information-seeking behaviour by the use of routinely collected data.
Setting: Wikipedia, Cochrane summary pages and the Cochrane Library.
Design: Randomised trial.
Background And Objectives: Cystinuria is a rare inherited renal stone disease. Mutations in the amino acid exchanger System b(0,+), the two subunits of which are encoded by SLC3A1 and SLC7A9, predominantly underlie this disease. The work analyzed the epidemiology of cystinuria and the influence of mutations in these two genes on disease severity in a United Kingdom cohort.
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