Nearly 40% of study participants cited unexpected treatment costs cancer care

Nearly 40% of study participants cited unexpected treatment costs cancer care
Oral isotretinoin as chemoprophylaxis for patients treated for oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma, in situ disease, or dysplasia may be beneficial in decreasing recurrence rate
Graves disease is the only indication in which patients undergoing thyroidectomy are at increased risk of postoperative hematoma formation
However, there was no significantly different incidence of CBNM between HPV-positive and HPV-negative patients
Head and neck cancer patients experiencing care fragmentation are at increased risk of in-hospital mortality within 30 days of readmission
Larynx-preserving surgery alone and larynx-preserving surgery with radiation were associated with improved survival compared to radiation alone.
Target musculature is the primary innervated muscle that produces the highest EMG amplitude and is the sole muscle grossly contracting with nerve stimulation
The addition of NBI to conventional white light imaging improves inter- and intraobserver agreement for diagnosing (pre)malignant lesions in the larynx, hypopharynx, and oropharynx
In adults, delay in surgical drainage of deep neck abscess is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, but there is no such association in children
Individual frozen section reads are highly accurate, but negative intraoperative margins do not guarantee margin-negative resection