Incidental [18F]FDG-avid focuses in parotid glands on PET/CT.

Background: The number of unexpected focal [18F]FDG-avid findings (incidentalomas) within the parotid gland (PGI) continues to increase with the expanding use of PET/CT scanning. The prevalence of malignancy in PGIs is uncertain and appropriate management is unsettled.

Aims: We aimed to explore the underlying pathologies associated with PGI.

The impact of social restrictions on the incidence and microbiology of peritonsillar abscess: a retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: We aimed to explore the impact of social distancing on the incidence and microbiology of peritonsillar abscess (PTA).

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional analysis of all patients with PTA and their microbiological findings in the 2 years preceding versus the 2 years following the COVID-19 lockdown in Denmark (11 March 2020), who were admitted to the Ear-Nose-Throat Department, Aarhus University Hospital. Age-stratified population data for the catchment area were obtained from Statistics Denmark.

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment of mandibular osteoradionecrosis: Combined data from the two randomized clinical trials DAHANCA-21 and NWHHT2009-1.

Purpose: Osteoradionecrosis (ORN) of the mandible is a serious complication of head and neck radiotherapy. This study aims to investigate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatment on ORN in two randomized, controlled multicentre trials.

Methods And Materials: Patients with ORN with indication for surgical treatment were randomised to either group 1: surgical removal of necrotic mandibular bone supplemented by 30 pre- and 10 postoperative HBO exposures at 243 kPa for 90 min each, or group 2: surgical removal of necrotic bone only.

Orthognathic surgery treatment injuries reported to the Danish Patient Compensation Association: A 25-year retrospective observational study.

Aim Of Study: The aim of this study was to describe and classify indemnity claims of treatment injuries in orthognathic surgery received by the Danish Patient Compensation Association (DPCA) during a 25-year time span from 1993 to 2018 in order to illustrate the wide scope of treatment injuries, patient's complaints, suffering, and compensation.

Material And Methods: All indemnity claims associated with orthognathic surgery were reviewed accessing the DPCA database including osteotomies performed in association with orthodontic treatment only, thus excluding access osteotomies for tumor surgery, osseodistraction cases, etc. RESULTS: A total of 237 indemnity claims were received for injury associated with orthognathic surgery, including anesthesia.

Technical and surgical aspects of the sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) microstimulator insertion procedure.

Cluster headache (CH) is a debilitating, severe form of headache. A novel non-systemic therapy has been developed that produces therapeutic electrical stimulation to the sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG). A transoral surgical technique for inserting the Pulsante SPG Microstimulator into the pterygopalatine fossa (PPF) is presented herein.