Publications by authors named "L J Marentette"
Article Synopsis
- - Traditional hospital accounting methods can be inaccurate for complex surgeries, so researchers applied time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to evaluate costs associated with head and neck cancer procedures involving tissue transfer.
- - The study analyzed 485 surgical cases from 2018-2020, revealing an average total cost of care delivery at $41,905.77, with only 10% of that coming from operating room supplies; factors like operative time and length of hospital stay were significant cost drivers.
- - The findings show that TDABC can help hospitals better understand and optimize costs by identifying areas of unused resources and improving efficiency in postoperative admissions.
Background: Sinonasal Undifferentiated Carcinoma (SNUC) is a rare and aggressive skull base tumor with poor survival and limited treatment options. To date, targeted sequencing studies have identified IDH2 and SMARCB1 as potential driver alterations, but the molecular alterations found in SMARCB1 wild type tumors are unknown.
Methods: We evaluated survival outcomes in a cohort of 46 SNUC patients treated at an NCI designated cancer center and identify clinical and disease variables associated with survival on Kaplan-Meier and Cox multivariate survival analysis.
At least 30% of all pheochromocytomas (PCCs)/paragangliomas (PGLs) arise in patients with a germline predisposition syndrome. Variants in succinate dehydrogenase subunits A, B, C, and D ( and ) are the most common pathogenic germline alterations. Few pathogenic variants have been reported in succinate dehydrogenase assembly factor 2 () Here, we describe a 30-year-old female patient who presented with a left-sided neck mass, which was later characterized as a carotid body PGL.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Prior studies suggest that the use of facial nerve monitoring decreases the rate of immediate postoperative facial nerve weakness in parotid surgery, but published data are lacking on normative values for these parameters or cutoff values to prognosticate facial nerve outcomes.
Objective: To identify intraoperative facial nerve monitoring parameters associated with postoperative weakness and to evaluate cutoff values for these parameters under which normal nerve function is more likely.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This retrospective case series of 222 adult patients undergoing parotid surgery for benign disease performed with intraoperative nerve monitoring was conducted at an academic medical institution from September 13, 2004, to October 30, 2014.