Periodontal damage after thermal inhalation injury - The impact of high temperature inhalation injury on long term periodontal health.

Purpose: Thermal inhalation injury is a common, life-threatening problem in burned patients. Whether or not this single event of damage to the oral integrity causes long term health problems is yet to be examined.

Material And Methods: All consecutive burn patients between 2014 and 2017 of Marienhospital Stuttgart (MHS), Germany, with at least 10% of burned skin surface were included and compared.

[Impact of the COVID-19 crisis in Spring 2020 on trauma case numbers of an academic teaching hospital in Stuttgart : Trauma during a pandemic].

Background: To cope with the COVID-19 outbreak in Germany, the government imposed a lockdown, which led to restrictions and lifestyle changes for the population.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the lockdown on activities causing trauma and the consultation in emergency rooms.

Material And Methods: All consecutive trauma patients consulting the Emergency Department of the Marienhospital Stuttgart (MHS), Germany, during the 6 weeks preceding the lockdown, during and after the lockdown were included.

Site-specific gene expression patterns in oral cancer.

Background: Squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) are the most prevalent malignant tumours within the head and neck. Evidence exists that distinct genes are differentially regulated in SCCs of the oral cavity compared to other head and neck regions. Given this background, the aim of this study was to investigate whether such tumour site-specific gene expression can also be observed in different localizations within the oral cavity.

Cytokeratin and protein expression patterns in squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity provide evidence for two distinct pathogenetic pathways.

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the oral cavity is a morphological heterogeneous disease. Various cytokeratin (CK) expression patterns with different prognostic values have been described, but little is known concerning the underlying biological cell mechanisms. Therefore, the present study investigated 193 cases of oral SCCs using immunohistochemistry for α/β/γ-catenin, glucose transporter 1, caspase-3, X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein, hypoxia inducible factor-1α, carbonic anhydrase 9, heat shock protein (hsp) 70, mast/stem cell growth factor receptor, p21, p27, p16, p53, B-cell lymphoma 6, epidermal growth factor receptor, cyclin D1 and CK1, 5/6, 8/18, 10, 14 and 19.