Quality of Life Impacts Following Surgery for Advanced Head and Neck Cancer.

Background: Understanding the impact of surgery on patients will enable clinicians to provide evidence-based perioperative management. This study aimed to investigate the quality of life (QoL) impacts following head and neck surgery for advanced stage head and neck cancer.

Methods: Head and neck cancer survivors were invited to complete five validated questionnaires to investigate QoL.

A Rare Case of Small Bowel Obstruction in a Patient with Endosalpingiosis, Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome, and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.

A 19-year-old female has multiple presentations to emergency department with recurrent abdominal pain. During her third presentation, the radiological features were suggestive of high-grade small bowel obstruction in a virgin abdomen. A diagnostic laparoscopy has been performed.

"MYH9 mutation and squamous cell cancer of the tongue in a young adult: a novel case report".

Background: The incidence of tongue cancer in young adults is on the rise. This trend is more pronounced in females. Although the aetiology is still unclear, there is mounting evidence that genetic syndromes can play a key role in development of oral cancers in this patient group.

Gallstone Ileus Decades after Cholecystectomy and Pylorus-Preserving Whipples.

We report a case of small bowel obstruction due to gallstone ileus found in a patient with previous pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple procedure). Investigation by computed tomography of the abdomen showed a transition point in the midjejunum due to a radioopaque intraluminal mass. Following resuscitation, the patient underwent laparotomy to remove the offending mass from the midjejunum.

Parotidectomy: surgery in evolution.

Background: Approximately 15 years ago, Bron and O'Brien described a large Australian series of 248 patients focusing on facial nerve function post parotidectomy performed by a single surgeon over an 8-year period. The primary aim of this study was to assess changes in pathology, surgical approach and outcomes following parotidectomy in a comparable single surgeon series from the same institution.

Methods: Details of patients undergoing parotidectomy by, or under the supervision of, the senior author (JRC) between February 2006 and December 2013 were retrospectively reviewed.

Management of sub-5 mm rectal carcinoids with lymph node metastases.

Minute (<5 mm) and small (5-10 mm) rectal carcinoids discovered during colonoscopy are generally considered to be non-aggressive, and the management and surveillance of patients with this entity are usually limited. We present the case of a 61-year-old Chinese female with multiple sub-5 mm carcinoid tumours in the rectum without any computed tomography (CT) evidence of lymph node or distant metastases. She underwent an ultra-low anterior resection for a sessile rectal polyp with the histological appearance of a moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma.