Nihon Jibiinkoka Gakkai kaiho
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Nippon Jibiinkoka Gakkai Kaiho · Mar 2015
Case Reports[A Case of Juvenile-Onset Laryngeal Papillomatosis Requiring Emergency Airway Management].
Juvenile-onset laryngeal papillomatosis has a serious tendency for rapid growth and repeated recurrence. Thus, patience and prudence are required for the successful management of this pathology. We report herein on 2-year and 4-month-old boy with juvenile-onset laryngeal papillomatosis, which caused remarkable airway constriction that required urgent airway management. ⋯ The histopathological diagnosis was benign papilloma and HPV11 virus was detected. The rapidly growing papilloma showed a strong tendency for recurrence, and four additional surgical procedures had to be performed within 6 months after the first operation. This patient will therefore require cautious medical care in the future.
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Nippon Jibiinkoka Gakkai Kaiho · Dec 2013
Review Case Reports[Case of pyogenic spondylitis and epidural abscess after chemoradiotherapy for hypopharyngeal cancer].
Osteomyelitis is one of the most severe late complications of radiation therapy. The condition can arise from osteoradionecrosis and can be fatal if it occurrs in vertebrae. A 71-year-old woman, who had undergone chemoradiotherapy for hypopharyngeal cancer 6 months previously, presented with severe neck pain. ⋯ Severe neck pain and a limitation in the range of motion of the neck are considered to be serious clinical features of osteomyelitis. Since infection in the necrotic mucosa leads to pyogenic spondylitis, a repeated cultivation survey of the mucosa is nessesary for adequate antibiotics therapy. For osteomyelitis and epidural abscess following radiation therapy, immediate specific surgical treatment of the involved region is strongly suggested if antibiotics are not effective or spinal cord compression develops.
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Nippon Jibiinkoka Gakkai Kaiho · Mar 2009
[Clinical analysis of hyposmia-associated taste dysfunction].
We clarified the clinical features of "flavor dysfunction," defined as olfactory dysfunction with self-reported hypogeusia but normal taste function in gustatory tests compared to those of "smell and taste dysfunction" hyposmia and hypogeusia in olfactory and gustatory tests. Patients with flavor dysfunction reported significantly milder taste loss than those with other smell and taste dysfunction. The major smell and taste loss etiology was upper respiratory tract infection (URI) in the flavor dysfunction group and the URI rate was significantly higher in the flavor dysfunction group than in the smell and taste dysfunction group. ⋯ Both groups significantly recovered from taste dysfunction. Our results indicate that treating olfactory dysfunction effectively improves flavor dysfunction but hypogeusia need not necessarily be treated. Hyposmia and hypogeusia must be treated together for other smell and taste dysfunction, making it vital that we conduct appropriate gustatory testing to correctly differentiate between flavor and other smell and taste dysfunctions.