Outcome analysis of patients with craniofacial resection: Hong Kong experience.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical outcome of patients who underwent craniofacial resection for tumour in the anterior skull base at the University of Hong Kong Medical Centre, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong between January 1993 and June 2003.

Methods: A retrospective review was conducted. The duration of follow up ranged from 1.

"Cystic" parotid swelling on FNA: significance on clinical management.

The clinical significance of a cystic aspirate, defined as an aspirate yielding fluid of any nature, on fine needle aspiration cytology (FNA) of parotid masses was studied. A total of 464 FNA from 236 patients over a 4-year period in a university head and neck department was analyzed. The incidence of cystic aspirates was 17.

Salvage of recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma after primary curative surgery.

Purpose: The efficacy of salvage treatment of recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) after primary curative surgery was evaluated.

Methods: The management outcome of 377 patients who had recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of oral cavity, oropharynx, hypopharynx, and larynx after primary curative surgery was reviewed.

Results: The surgical salvage rates of recurrence were 29% local, 30% tracheostomal, 56% unilateral nodal recurrence of previously undissected neck, 32% of unilateral neck recurrence after prior neck dissection, and 11% lung metastasis.

A prospective controlled double-blind trial of great auricular nerve preservation at parotidectomy.

Background: Earlier reports of the advantages of preservating the posterior branches of the great auricular nerve (GAN) at parotidectomy were conflicting. This prospective study was aimed at clarifying the controversy.

Methods: Eighty-one patients in a university otolaryngology department were recruited.