Fellows’ Journal Club One hundred five consecutive patients with primary oropharyngeal and oral cavity head and neck squamous cell carcinoma underwent MR imaging with anatomic and DWI sequences. The collected tumor voxels from the contoured ROIs provided histograms from which
PRESS RELEASE The American Society of Head and Neck Radiology Presents 2017 Gold Medal to Edward E. Kassel, M.D., FACR during 51st Annual Meeting The American Society of Head and Neck Radiology (ASHNR) awarded its 2017 Gold Medal to Edward E. Kassel,
Fellows’ Journal Club Scleritis is a rare vision-threatening condition that can occur isolated or in association with other orbital abnormalities and whose etiology is typically inflammatory/noninfectious, either idiopathic or in the context of systemic disease. The authors analyzed 11 cases
Fellows’ Journal Club This case series presents 18 patients with primary and secondary malignant lacrimal sac and nasolacrimal duct tumors and their pattern of tumor spread. Squamous cell carcinoma was the most common histology and, in 15/18 patients tumor involved
Editor’s Choice SMARCB1 (INI1) is a tumor-suppressor gene that has been implicated in a growing number of malignancies involving multiple anatomic sites, including the kidneys, soft tissues, and the CNS (See OMIM *601607). The authors describe a case series of
Schuenke M, Schulte E, Schumacher U, eds. Atlas of Anatomy: Head, Neck, and Neuroanatomy. Thieme; 2016; 600 pp; 1743 ill; $79.99 In a beautifully illustrated 600-page softcover entitled Atlas of Anatomy: Head, Neck and Neuroanatomy, the authors describe and illustrate anatomic
Kleinschmidt-Demasters BK, Rodriguez F, Tihan T, et al. Diagnostic Pathology: Neuropathology. 2nd ed. AMIRSYS Elsevier; 2016; 864 pp; 2800 ill; 224.99 Thompson LDR, Wenig BM, et al. Diagnostic Pathology: Head & Neck. 2nd ed. AMIRSYS Elsevier; 2017; 1192 pp; 3000 ill; $247.49 In two
Editor’s Choice Editor’s Comment Forty-one patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma were evaluated by using pseudocontinuous ASL. Quantitative tumor blood flow was calculated at the pretreatment and the early treatment periods. Pretreatment tumor blood flow in patients in
Sclafani AP, ed. Total Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery. Thieme; 2014; 1100 pp; 666 ill; $199.99 This is an A-to-Z book on otolaryngology, with emphasis on the surgical aspects of that specialty. In a large (and heavy) 1100-page text edited primarily by
