Publications by authors named "Kshithi K"

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  • The study aimed to evaluate an intraoperative scoring system for patients with mucormycosis to predict their postoperative outcomes, particularly mortality rates.
  • It involved 80 patients who underwent surgery, with the scoring system effectively indicating that a score over 25 was linked to a high mortality rate (86.7%).
  • The research highlighted significant factors influencing mortality, including specific anatomical involvement and certain patient medical histories, underscoring the need for thorough surgical exploration to improve prognosis.
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  • Angiectatic nasal polyps (ANP) are unusual growths in the nose that can be hard to identify and are not real tumors.
  • They can look a lot like another type of nose growth called juvenile nasal angiofibroma, which makes it tricky to tell them apart just using imaging tests.
  • In a case report, a young adult had nasal blockage and bleeding, and after surgery and testing the tissue, doctors confirmed it was an ANP.
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  • Plasmoacanthoma is a rare, benign verrucous lesion that can easily be misdiagnosed as squamous cell carcinoma, creating challenges for both clinicians and pathologists.
  • A case study details a 70-year-old female with a lower lip lesion that resembled cancer, but biopsy and histopathology confirmed it as plasmoacanthoma after initial treatment with corticosteroids failed.
  • A review of existing literature highlighted the importance of understanding the distinct features and similarities of plasmoacanthoma and related conditions to improve diagnosis and management strategies.
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Lateral medullary syndrome/Wallenberg syndrome, is a neurological disorder occurring due to ischemia in the lateral part of medullary oblongata resulting in wide range of symptoms. Dysphagia is usually exhibited in severe and persistent form in LMS. Hence timely intervention is mandatory before the patient further worsens.

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Aim: To determine the effect of cochlear dose on sensorineural hearing loss in patients with head and neck cancer treated by radiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy.

Materials And Method: A two-year longitudinal study was conducted on 130 subjects with various head and neck malignancies who were receiving radiotherapy or chemoradiation. 56 patients received only radiotherapy while 74 patients received concurrent chemoradiation five days a week at a dose of 66-70 Gy.

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Otoacariasis is the presence of ticks and mites within the ear canal. Though the coexistence of ticks and humans is known for thousands of years, tick infestation is relatively rare in urban population. The most common presenting symptoms are usually itching, otalgia and a foreign body sensation and less frequent ones are tinnitus and otorrhoea.

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Objectives: To quantify tumour size and margin shrinkage due to formalin fixation in head and neck cancer specimens and determine its effect on tumour staging and margin clearance.

Methods: Tumour specimens were measured immediate post-resection and at 24 hours after fixation. Tumour was measured in 2 dimensions and one margin was measured.

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Pharyngocutaneous fistula (PCF) after laryngectomy occurs when there is a failure in the pharyngeal repair resulting in a salivary leak (Dedivitis et al. in Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital 27(1):2-5, 2007). In the post-operative period this complication is not only a challenge to the surgeon but also distressing to the patient and his family.

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Spindle cell carcinoma of the head and neck is a rare biphasic neoplasm. The presentation mimics other head-and-neck malignancies and hence the diagnosis hinges upon histopathological confirmation along with positive immunohistochemistry (IHC) markers denoting the presence of both epithelial and mesenchymal components. At present, there are no standard management criteria for these tumors with the options varying from surgery alone to surgery combined with adjuvant radiotherapy.

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Angiectatic sinonasal polyps are uncommon. However, riveting nature of this polyp lies in its clinical presentation mimicking a neoplasm. It is radiologically very challenging to pick up this lesion in spite of its characteristic findings on imaging.

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Objectives: To compare the audiological profiles in postmenopausal women with and without osteoporosis and to study the pattern of hearing loss in osteoporotic patients.

Materials And Methods: 80 postmenopausal women were evaluated at a tertiary referral center and were divided into normal, osteopenic and osteoporotic based on BMD results. The hearing evaluation was done using PTA, Impedance audiometry and DPOAE and the results were compared between the groups and analyzed.

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