Reconstruction in Salvage Surgery for Head and Neck Cancers.

Introduction: Salvage surgery is the treatment option in recurrences and second primary tumors. This paper aimed to study the options and outcomes of reconstruction and the predictors of poor reconstructive outcomes in salvage surgery for head and neck cancers.

Study Design: This is a retrospective study of all patients who underwent reconstructive flap surgery as part of salvage surgery for head and neck cancers between the years 2004 and 2017.

Prior chemoradiotherapy and pathological perineural invasion predict the survival outcomes of salvage surgery in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Background: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the oncological outcomes of salvage surgery in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN).

Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of all patients of SCCHN with recurrence or second primary, post-treatment, who underwent salvage surgery. The outcomes were analyzed in terms of overall survival, overall survival postsalvage surgery and disease-free survival (DFS) postsalvage surgery.

Parathyroid Hormone as a Marker for Predicting the Severity of Hypocalcaemia Following Parathyroidectomy.

The purpose of this study is to determine preoperative predictors of the severity of the hypocalcaemia following parathyroidectomy. The case records of 70 patients who underwent parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism from 2000 to 2013 was retrospectively studied. Their symptoms at presentation, biochemical parameters serum calcium, parathyroid hormone, alkaline phosphatase and parathyroid size on ultrasound were compared with their serial post-operative serum calcium levels at 24, 48, 72 and 96 h.

Pneumosinus Dilatans Helping Subcranial Resection in a Patient with Advanced Ethmoid Malignancy.

Subcranial approach is a useful procedure in the management of limited anterior skull base tumors. But the posterior and superior visualization may be limited, in ethmoid malignancies with a large intracranial extension. A 55-year-old male patient, a case of an ethmoid malignancy, with a large intracranial component was resected with adequate margins by a subcranial approach.

Challenges in the reconstruction of bilateral maxillectomy defects.

Purpose: Bilateral maxillectomy defects, if not adequately reconstructed, can result in grave esthetic and functional problems. The purpose of this study was to investigate the outcome of reconstruction of such defects.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective case series.