Cognitive, imaging, and psychiatric changes associated with chronic toluene use: case report and literature review.

Inhalant misuse and inhalant use disorder are global public health concern that impacts adolescents but can occur throughout life. Toluene is the most commonly misused inhalant. Toluene use leads to significant neuroanatomic, cognitive, and psychiatric deficits.

Prospective observational evaluation of radiation-induced late taste impairment kinetics in oropharyngeal cancer patients: Potential for improvement over time?

Background And Purpose: Taste impairment is a common radiation-induced toxicity in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients acutely. However, data on the potential for recovery and the time dependent course of late taste impairment are limited.

Materials And Methods: As part of an IRB-approved observational prospective study, HNC patients underwent serial surveys including the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory - Head and Neck module (MDASI-HN).

Radiation-Induced Hypothyroidism After Radical Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy for Oropharyngeal Carcinoma.

Purpose: To evaluate 2 published normal tissue complication probability models for radiation-induced hypothyroidism (RHT) on a large cohort of oropharyngeal carcinoma (OPC) patients who were treated with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).

Methods And Materials: OPC patients treated with retrievable IMRT Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOMs) data and available baseline and follow-up thyroid function tests were included. Mean dose (Dmean) to the thyroid gland (TG) and its volume were calculated.