Establishment of brown anoles () across a southern California county and potential interactions with a native lizard species.

The brown anole, , is a native species to the Caribbean; however, has invaded multiple parts of the USA, including Florida, Louisiana, Hawai'i and more recently California. The biological impacts of invading California are currently unknown. Evidence from the invasion in Taiwan shows that they spread quickly and when immediate action is not taken eradication stops being a viable option.

Pleomorphic Mantle Cell Lymphoma of the Tongue Base Presenting With Dysphagia.

Objectives: We aim to increase awareness of pleomorphic mantle cell lymphoma as a rare, but aggressive form of lymphoma with propensity for recurrence in secondary locations.

Methods: We report the case of a 70-year-old man who presented with chronic post-nasal drainage, dysphagia, and voice changes caused by a tongue base mass.

Results: Partial excision and pathology showed a pleomorphic mantle cell lymphoma, and radiation treatment was completed.

FoxP3 and indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase immunoreactivity in sentinel nodes from melanoma patients.

Objective: 1) Assess FoxP3/indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase immunoreactivity in head and neck melanoma sentinel lymph nodes and 2) correlate FoxP3/indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase with sentinel lymph node metastasis and clinical recurrence.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Methods: Patients with sentinel lymph node biopsy for head and neck melanoma between 2004 and 2011 were identified.

Treatment-induced changes in vocal cord mobility and subsequent local recurrence after organ preservation therapy for laryngeal carcinoma.

Background: As multidisciplinary cancer treatment evolves, strategies to identify patients needing early resection/salvage are necessary. Some have suggested that vocal cord function after organ-preservation treatment may be an indicator.

Methods: A retrospective review was performed of patients presenting with fixed or impaired vocal cord function at a tertiary center.

Preoperative radiotherapy and bevacizumab for angiosarcoma of the head and neck: two case studies.

Background: Angiosarcoma of the face is a vascular tumor with poor local control and short median survival despite standard treatment. Bevacizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which can inhibit tumor growth. It is synergistic with radiotherapy in gastrointestinal malignancies.

Melanoma of the ear: treatment and survival probabilities based on 199 patients.

Background: In 2005, it is now estimated that one in 62 Americans have a lifetime risk of developing invasive melanoma. Melanoma of the ear accounts for 1% of all cases of melanoma and 14.5% of all head and neck melanomas.

Otolaryngology-head and neck surgery residency match: applicant survey.

Objective: To examine satisfaction with the match process and reported failures to comply with the match rules among applicants of the January 2002 Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery match.

Design: A survey was mailed to all applicants completing the 2002 San Francisco Matching Program match.

Participants: Surveys were mailed to 312 applicants, and the 151 returned surveys were entered into a database, which was then subjected to statistical analysis.

Necessity for adjuvant neck dissection in setting of concurrent chemoradiation for advanced head-and-neck cancer.

Purpose: Neck dissection has traditionally played an important role in the treatment of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck who present with regionally advanced neck disease (N2-N3). Radiotherapy and concurrent chemotherapy improves overall survival in advanced head-and-neck cancer compared with radiotherapy alone. The necessity for postchemoradiation neck dissection is controversial.

Current management of mucosal melanoma of the head and neck.

While mucosal-based melanomas of the head and neck region are uncommon lesions, when they do arise they usually follow an inexorably aggressive course. Experience with these tumors is, necessarily, limited; as such, well-worked out treatment protocols for the treatment of such lesions are in short supply. It appears as though mucosal melanomas (MuMs) develop more frequently in the nasal cavity and paranasal sinus region, and less often in the oral cavity.

Elective, therapeutic, and delayed lymph node dissection for malignant melanoma of the head and neck: analysis of 1444 patients from 1970 to 1998.

Objective: The purpose of this article is to evaluate the effects on survival, disease-free interval, and recurrence patterns for patients undergoing elective, therapeutic, and delayed lymph node dissection for malignant melanoma of the head and neck.

Study Design And Methods: A retrospective computer-aided analysis was performed comparing 1444 patients treated from 1970 to 1998 at Duke University Medical Center. A total of 446 of the 1444 (32%) of patients with head and neck melanoma underwent some form of lymph node dissection.