Effect of radiation therapy on lymph node fluorescence in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma after intravenous injection of indocyanine green: a prospective evaluation.

Background: Indocyanine green (ICG)-guided surgery has proven effective in the identification of neoplastic tissues. The effect of radiation therapy (RT) on lymph node fluorescence after intravenous injection of ICG has not been addressed yet. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of RT on node fluorescence during neck dissection in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).

The effect of salivary bypass tube use on the prevention of pharyngo-cutaneous fistulas after total laryngectomy.

Introduction: The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the efficacy of Salivary Bypass Tube (SBT) for preventing pharyngo-cutaneous fistula (PCF) in a recent cohort of patients who underwent primary and salvage total laryngectomy (TL).

Methods: A consecutive series of 133 patients who underwent total laryngectomy between 1997 and 2019 was reviewed. The incidence of PCF was compared between patients who did not receive SBT (nSBT group; n = 55) and those preventively receiving SBT (SBT group; n = 78) in both primary and salvage TL.

Benign tumors of the parotid gland: a retrospective study of 339 patients.

Aim: Among 339 patients operated for benign tumor of the parotid gland: the recurrences and the postoperative complications rates were compared WITH those published in literature.

Materials And Methods: About 339 patients operated: 274 primarily and 65 for recurrence or residual tumor.

Variables: sex, age, surgical techniques, pre- or postoperative radiotherapy, histology, size and localization of the tumors, disease free intervals, recurrences and postoperative complications.

Parathyroid carcinoma: a review with three illustrative cases.

Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare disease, which accounts for less than 1% of all case of primary hyperparathyroidism and is usually not detected until the time of surgery or thereafter. For most patients preoperative staging is not available. A radical excision remains the standard management; the place of adjuvant radiotherapy is not well established yet.

Near total thyroidectomy is an optimal treatment for graves' disease.

Surgical management of Graves' disease is still debated. We report our current experience with thyroidectomy for Graves' disease at a tertiary center. A retrospective database of 132 patients who underwent surgery for Graves' disease from January 1985 to December 2008 was collected.