Publications by authors named "Lia Guillere"
Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) is an interleukin (IL)-7-like cytokine expressed by epithelial cells during allergic inflammation, and activating dendritic cells (DC). Its expression and functional role in cancer remain controversial. We conducted retrospective (n = 89), and prospective studies including patients with untreated primary head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) has been claimed to be a reliable tool, improving surgical results in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). One means of assessing reliability would be to ablate only a part of the sites observed on endoscopy and find only partial success versus ablating all observed sites and finding resolution of apnea.
Methods: A retrospective study included 24 OSAS patients, operated on following awake clinical examination.
Background: Evaluation of the efficacy of negative pressure wound therapy in fibula free flap donor site management in head and neck cancer.
Methods: We conducted a single-center retrospective study from 2007 to 2013 comparing fibula free flap donor site healing time after conventional bolster dressing or negative pressure wound therapy.
Results: Thirteen patients were treated by conventional dressing and 16 patients were treated by negative pressure wound therapy.
Objectives/hypothesis: To evaluate the long-term outcome of patients with vocal fold nodules treated by surgery alone, or by a combination of surgery and voice therapy and to identify factors associated with long-term recurrent dysphonia.
Study Design: Retrospective study.
Methods: All patients who had undergone surgery for vocal fold nodules in a tertiary care hospital between 1996 and 2006 were contacted.