Introduction: Although osteosarcoma represents the most common primary malignant bone tumor in children, they comprise only 0.2% of all cancers. Osteosarcoma frequently involves long bones; however, 8% of osteosarcomas involve the skull or mandible.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate the impact of age on disease recurrence in idiopathic subglottic stenosis (iSGS) patients.
Methods: This was a retrospective chart review of iSGS patients treated with laser wedge excision. Patients did not have prior surgery.
Objective: To evaluate the impact of methotrexate and rituximab therapy on highly recurrent idiopathic subglottic stenosis (iSGS) patients with a negative antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody titer cANCA(-).
Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of highly recurrent iSGS patients who recurred within 1 year or less and were treated with methotrexate (MTX), and rituximab (RTX), or a combination of both at different time points (MTX/RTX). Average surgical durations before and after drug treatment were summarized, and the differences were calculated.