Publications by authors named "Sajad Ahmad Buch"
Revisiting Cancer Cachexia: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Current Treatment Approaches.
Asia Pac J Oncol Nurs
August 2021
The objective of this article is to group together various management strategies and to highlight the recent treatment modifications that attempt to target the multimodal etiological factors involved in cancer cachexia. The contemporary role of nursing fraternity in psychosocial and nutritional assessment of cancer patients is briefly discussed. Cachexia is a syndrome of metabolic disturbance, characterized by the inflammation and loss of muscle with or without loss of adipose tissue.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSalivary gland carcinomas are the uncommon and clinically diverse group of neoplasms with mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) being the most common among them. MEC accounts for 5% of all salivary gland tumors. As the name implies, the tumor is composed of both mucus secreting cells and epidermoid type cells in varying proportions.
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- Osteochondroma is a common benign bone tumor, but it is rarely found in the craniofacial region, specifically in the coronoid process, with limited reported cases since 1899.
- A 16-year-old female patient presented a unique case of osteochondroma in the left coronoid process, notably without restricted mouth opening, which is atypical compared to existing literature.
- Diagnostics relied on cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) due to the limitations of plain radiography; the patient was treated successfully with an intraoral coronoidectomy.