{"title":"60th Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Orthopedics. Davos, 7-9 September 2000. Abstracts.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76532,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift. Supplementum","volume":"119 ","pages":"1S-46S"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21884268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C A Haenggeli, P Dulguerov, D Slosman, M Becker, P Bang, A Allal, J P Guyot, W Lehmann
{"title":"[Value of positron emission tomography with 18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG-PET) in early detection of residual tumor in oro-pharyngeal-laryngeal carcinoma].","authors":"C A Haenggeli, P Dulguerov, D Slosman, M Becker, P Bang, A Allal, J P Guyot, W Lehmann","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate and compare the performances of FDG-PET imaging, MRI and clinical examination in the detection of residual tumour 3 months after treatment of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>A consecutive sample of 50 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity, oropharynx, hypopharynx or larynx, or a cervical lymph node metastasis from an unknown primary site excluding T1 lip and T1 vocal cord tumours.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Treatment outcome was assessed after 3 months by clinical examination, MRI, and FDG-PET scan. Sensitivity, specificity and accuracy were calculated relative to proven biopsy of residual tumour or a clinical follow-up of 4 months.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Residual cancer was confirmed in 8 patients (16%), while the clinical follow-up was unsuspicious in the remaining 42 patients. PET-FDG had a sensitivity of 100% as compared to MRI (88%) and clinical examination (63%). Specificity was higher for clinical examination (90%), intermediate for MRI (83%) and lowest for PET-FDG (74%).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study finds very high sensitivity for PET-FDG in the detection of residual tumour. However, its lower specificity, lack of anatomical resolution, and high cost, require further studies to determine its role in routine screening.</p>","PeriodicalId":76532,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift. Supplementum","volume":"116 ","pages":"8S-11S"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21628747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P Schaller, A Arnoux, R Laeng, J Stähelin, M Podvinec
{"title":"[EBV infection as etiology of otomastoiditis with peripheral facial paralysis in the child].","authors":"P Schaller, A Arnoux, R Laeng, J Stähelin, M Podvinec","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Case report on a 15-month-old girl with acute bilateral otomastoiditis with facial nerve palsy in the course of an EBV infection. Although the initial mononucleosis blood test was negative the diagnosis was established by the presence of blastic transformed lymphocytes with immunoreaction for the latent membrane protein of EBV, and the presence of EBV-mRNA in the majority of lymphocytes in the biopsy specimen. The occurrence of facial nerve palsy in the course of an EBV infection is relatively rare but well known. The present case involved a viral otomastoiditis with a typical course, which was complicated by facial nerve palsy after a few days of illness. A case of this kind has only once been described in an adult patient and has never been reported in a child.</p>","PeriodicalId":76532,"journal":{"name":"Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift. Supplementum","volume":"116 ","pages":"87S-89S"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21629148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}