Tuberculosis Coexistence in Pediatric Hodgkin's Lymphoma: A Tropical Country Experience.

 Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL), being one of the common cancers among children, may occasionally masquerade as an infectious illness. Similarly, an underlying infection like tuberculosis (TB) may be missed in cases of HL because of similarity in clinical and radiological features. Here, we present our data of association of HL with histopathologically proven TB lymph node, their clinical presentation, treatment details, and outcome.

Acute myeloid leukemia following radioactive iodine therapy for papillary carcinoma of the thyroid.

Radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy plays an important role in the management of thyroid malignancies. Leukemia is a very rare complication of radioactive therapy. There are very few case reports with doses below 100 mCi causing leukemia.

Electromyography in near-total laryngectomy.

Objective: To investigate the dynamics of speech shunt muscle in patients with Pearson near-total laryngectomy by needle electromyography and correlation of ability to activate shunt muscle with speech production.

Design And Settings: Prospective study of patients with near-total laryngectomy at 2 hospital-based academic tertiary care centers.

Participants And Intervention: Fourteen patients with near-total laryngectomy were subjected to percutaneous needle electromyographic study of the shunt muscle.

Functional utility and oncologic safety of near-total laryngectomy with tracheopharyngeal speech shunt in a Third World oncologic center.

This prospective study analyzes the feasibility, oncologic safety and functional utility of Pearson's near-total laryngectomy with tracheopharyngeal shunt (NTL-TPSS). The procedure was found to give gratifying locoregional control in 30 consecutive advanced T3 and selected T4 tumors involving the larynx (n = 11) and hypopharynx (n = 19) and managed at Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, India. The oncologic "safety" of this technique was established in following examinations, ranging from 18 to 44 months (median, 22.