Usefulness of a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit for Candida mannan antigen for detecting Candida in oral rinse solutions.

Objective: The aim was to test the performance of a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit for Candida mannan antigen for detecting Candida in oral rinse solutions.

Study Design: Forty-eight oral rinse solutions (38 from patients and 10 from healthy volunteers) were available. Mannan antigen was measured using a commercial sandwich ELISA kit, Unimedi Candida.

Primary oral KIT-positive tumour consistent with gastrointestinal stromal tumour.

Gastrointestinal stromal tumours are characteristically positive for KIT (reflective of the c-KIT gene). A case is reported of an apparent rapidly growing gastrointestinal stromal tumour, which arose in the floor of the mouth and metastasized to the left neck without evidence of disease elsewhere.

Clinical predictors for contralateral neck lymph node metastasis from unilateral squamous cell carcinoma in the oral cavity.

The factors that predict contralateral (C-) lymph node metastasis (LNM) in patients with unilateral oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) were analyzed. One hundred and twenty-nine patients who had untreated SCC that originated from the lateral oral cavity, but not around the midline, were included. The impact of multiple clinicopathologic factors (sex, performance status, primary site, T-stage, number and level of ipsilateral LNM, growth type, histopathological grading, mode of invasion, extension across the midline, and systemic neoadjuvant/adjuvant chemotherapy) on time-to-C-LNM was assessed using the stepwise Cox proportional hazards model.

Relationship between alteration of horizontal size and bony morphological change in the mandibular condyle.

Objective: To analyse the relationship between horizontal size and morphological changes on the articular surface and the lateral part of the mandibular condyle.

Methods: The study group comprised 139 joints in 88 women aged over 18 years. Horizontal condylar size was measured in the anteroposterior (AP) and mediolateral (ML) dimensions using axial MR images.