There is considerable overlap in the clinical presentation of diseases in the pediatric population, and a fundamental understanding of radiographic findings is essential toward narrowing the differential diagnosis. This chapter will review the common causes of respiratory distress in pediatric patients, as ...
Imaging of soft tissues of the neck can be essential in the evaluation of patients with a variety of chief complaints, including neck trauma, ingested or aspirated foreign body, nontraumatic neck pain and swelling, dysphagia and voice change, visible or palpable mass, and central nervous system ...
aThis is a preformed stylet that has a lighted tip that trans-illuminates the soft tissues of the neck (see Chapter 14). It can be used with or without a laryngoscope and is of particular value when there is limited mouth opening or cervical instability. A TT is mounted on the wand, ...
A series of 45 recurrences in the soft tissues of the neck following lymph node dissection in 497 patients bearing of the upper aerodigestive passages is reported. Only 22 cases that presented perilymph node metastases and/or in which there were reasons to indicate insufficient surgical radicality ...
A study of 55 patients affected by neoplasia of the head and neck or clinically evident laterocervical swellings was carried out in order to evaluate the diagnostic value of ultrasonography in the study of cervical lymph nodes and soft tissues, excluding thyroid or salivary pathologies. The analysi...
A number of cases are presented illustrating the value of computed tomography in the investigation of mass lesions involving the paranasal sinuses, nasopharynx, and soft tissues of the neck. Rapid advances in CT technology now underway will alter our approach to the investigation of certain diseases...
Among soft tissue tumors as a whole, those in the head and neck region are relatively uncommon, and the proportion of all soft tissue sarcomas that arise in this region is ≤5–10% (although this figure is higher in children). With the exceptions of nasopharyngeal angiofibroma and sinonasal...
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Soft tissues are either inert or contractile This distinction is one of the pillars on which the whole system of orthopaedic medicine rests. The soft tissues of the locomotor system can be divided on the one hand into tissues that can contract (the contractile structures) and on the other ha...
We evaluated three items: the size of the tonsils according to Mackenzie' s classification and the degree of projection of the tonsils during the gag reflex, the clinical symptoms obtained by parental questioning, and the lateral view of soft tissues of the neck high kilo voltage beam X-ray ...