Tuberculosis of the salivary glands and particularly of the parotid gland is a localization that remains rare even in endemic countries. The association of intra parotid tuberculosis with a benign tumor has been found only in rare cases in literature. A 50-year-old woman with a history of normal pressure hydrocephalus treated surgically, non-smoker, presented with a right parotid swelling progressively increasing in size for 3 years.
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May 2024
Objectives: Review of the scientific medical literature dedicated to clinical data, diagnosis and treatment for laryngeal tuberculosis published since the turn of the 21st century.
Material And Methods: Search of the Medline, Cochrane and Embase databases for the period 2000-2022. Selection of cohorts and case reports documenting clinical data, diagnosis and treatment for laryngeal tuberculosis.
Eur Ann Otorhinolaryngol Head Neck Dis
March 2024
Objective: To describe and analyze a case of acute spinal cord injury after head and neck surgery.
Description: One hour after left lobo-isthmectomy under laryngeal neuromonitoring for a 3-cm EU-TIRADS 4 - Bethesda 4 thyroid nodule in a 48-year-old euthyroid male without any known comorbidity, left hemiparesis occurred. Cervical spine MRI showed an anteromedial herniated C6-7 disk with medullary compression.
Hemithyroidectomy is one of the most common procedures performed. It is used to treat patients with benign unilateral nodules. Hemithyroidectomy results in fewer risks of hypothyroidism and the need for thyroid hormone replacement therapy.
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