Year 2019 / Volume 41 / Number 3

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Objective: Retrospective descriptive study of 21 oral soft tissue and/or maxillary bone metastatic cases.
Materials and methods: Hospital records of our own department are reviewed for a 12-year period. Lymphoproliferative diseases, skin metastases, salivary glands, other craniofacial bones and cervical lymph-nodes are excluded. Epidemiologic, personal health, clinical, treatment...

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Objectives: Facial nerve injury is one of the most important complications in parotid gland surgery. This study aims to identify possible predictive factors for iatrogenic facial paralysis in parotidectomy.
Material and method: We performed a retrospective analysis of cases of parotidectomy in the treatment of parotid tumors carried out at a Portuguese Oncology Institute, during...

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Aim: Most of deep cervical infections are polymicrobial and come from a dental origin, and an appropriate treatment is necessary. The present paper aims to describe the efficiency of minimally invasive incisions for the drainage of deep cervical infections.
Materials and methods: A descriptive, retrospective and longitudinal study in patients with deep cervical infections, who...

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Objective: To determine the antiinflammatory effectiveness of dexamethasone plus complex B in lower third molar surgery.
Methods: The present study is a double-blind randomized controlled trial of parallel design. It was carried out in the Stomatologic Clinic of the Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego (UPAO) of Trujillo during 2010. The sample consisted of 36 patients randomly divided...

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Objective: To evaluate systematically the results obtained by combining platelet rich fibrin (PRF) and bone fill in guided bone regeneration, according to scientific literature.
Materials and method: Detailed search of database from PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, Cochrane and SciELO to obtain the most updated information of clinical results (bone filling degree,...

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Introduction: Hypoxemia commonly arises in dental patients with lung diseases during and after surgery and requires monitoring patients’ blood oxygenation to identify life-threatening problems. Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (COPD) could remain underdiagnosis in smokers without symptoms.
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the arterial oxygen saturation (%SpO2) during...

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Malar bone metastases of solid infraclavicular tumours are exceptional. Expression of somatostatin receptors should be considered in neuroendocrine strains, in order to carry out targeted therapies. We report a clinical case of a 66-year-old man with a tumour of the lung with oncocytic features, which debut is a malar metastasis of slow evolution. He is treated with Lanreotide and...

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This article presents the case report of a giant lateral dermoid cyst in the floor of mouth surgically excised by intraoral approach, initially misdiagnosed by imaging studies as a ranula. Other cases of dermoid cysts preoperatively diagnosed ranulae are present in literature, but none directly compares their clinical, radiological and therapeutic aspects. This article will also discuss...