ABSTRACT
Metastatic growths on palatine tonsils are very scarce if compared with primordial tumors of this sitting. Report of a case, in a 56-year-old woman, who 6 months after being operated from a left nephrectomy for hypernephroma presented a metastasis of clair renal cells on the right tonsil. Given the peculiarity of such a case we look through the literature of tonsil metastases and discuss the differential diagnosis regarding these type of lesions, sometimes encountered in our daily practice.
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Carcinoma, Renal Cell/secondary , Kidney Neoplasms/pathology , Tonsillar Neoplasms/secondary , Fatal Outcome , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Neoplasms, Second Primary/diagnosis , Neoplasms, Second Primary/surgery , Tonsillar Neoplasms/surgeryABSTRACT
A descriptive and retrospective scrutiny dealing with 2,638 emergency cases admitted at "Virgen de la Salud" Hospital, Toledo, during 1993. Analysis of a series of parameters as age, sex, hour, day of the week, month, kind of pathology, emergency ward in charge of the exigency and so on, and correlation of these items. Assessment of the gravity of each urgent case and motive of admission. Our results are confronted with those given by other authors.
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Ambulatory Care/standards , Emergency Service, Hospital/standards , Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases/therapy , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Hospitals, Urban , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Middle Aged , Retrospective Studies , Spain , Time FactorsABSTRACT
A descriptive, retrospective study was made of 110 cases of laryngeal neoplasm diagnosed at the Hospital Virgen de la Salud of Toledo, Spain, between 1988 and 1991. Cases were studied by sex, age, alcohol use, smoking, first symptom, and time to treatment.
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Laryngeal Neoplasms/epidemiology , Larynx/pathology , Adult , Aged , Female , Humans , Incidence , Laryngeal Neoplasms/pathology , Male , Middle Aged , Retrospective Studies , Sex Factors , Spain/epidemiologyABSTRACT
The AA. report the case of a 68-year-old man, treated in their ENT-Department, presenting with amyloid accumulations in the larynx in the context of systemic amyloidosis associated to a multiple myeloma. Review of diagnostic methods in order to identify the lesion and the general malady as well. Approach to the adequate treatment.
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Amyloidosis/etiology , Amyloidosis/physiopathology , Brain Neoplasms/complications , Brain Neoplasms/pathology , Larynx/physiopathology , Medulla Oblongata/pathology , Multiple Myeloma/complications , Multiple Myeloma/pathology , Aged , Amyloidosis/diagnosis , Brain Neoplasms/diagnosis , Diagnosis, Differential , Humans , Male , Multiple Myeloma/diagnosisABSTRACT
Primitive involvement of the palatine tonsil with a nodular paragranuloma (nodular subtype of Hodgkin's malady with lymphocytic predominance) is rarely found, being larger in number the cases associated with simultaneous occurrence in other organs. In the paper the AA. report one of this instances sitting solitarily in the palatine amygdala (stadium IA). Furthermore a bibliographic review about Waldeyer's ring lymphoma and particularly on nodular Hodgkin's paragranuloma is displayed.
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Hodgkin Disease/pathology , Palatine Tonsil/pathology , Tonsillar Neoplasms/pathology , Humans , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
The aim of this report is to compare the use of tympanostomy tubes (in 190 ears) versus the realization of myringotomy without any posterior placement of tubes (in 19 ears) in the treatment of 108 children with secretory otitis media. Course, sequelae and complications were analyzed over a period of 2 to 9 years. Our results suggest that the use of tympanostomy tubes must follow some specific indications, since they are not free of complications and sequelae.
