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Head and Neck Surgery: Diagnosis and Management
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Head and Neck Surgery: Diagnosis and Management

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 636

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Dongbin Ahn

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Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, 130 Dongdeok-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu 41944, Republic of Korea
Interests: head and neck oncology; human papillomavirus; head and neck surgery; thyroid/parathyroid surgery; ultrasound-guided intervention

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The management of head and neck tumors has remarkably improved over the last decades. This is associated with the technical progress of various imaging modalities such as ultrasonography, CT, MR and PET/CT; emerging role of the human papillomavirus (HPV) as a critical causative and prognostic factor of head and neck cancer (HNC); paradigm shift of the primary treatment from radical surgery to organ preservation modalities, gaining popularity in various types of endoscopic and robotic surgeries; and the introduction of immunotherapy in recurrent and metastatic HNCs. Despite such evident advancements in diagnostic and therapeutic aspects, survival rate in patients with HNC remains stationary. With respect to benign head and neck pathologies, there is an increasing need for non-invasive and function-preserving managements that allow for maintaining the normal quality of life even after treatment. Indeed, these issues are new research challenges for better diagnostic and therapeutic performance.

This Special Issue of Diagnostics aims to promote readers’ interest in current issues related to the diagnosis and treatment of various head neck pathologies, and we welcome any scientific attempts to refine the current protocol for HNC management. 

Dr. Dongbin Ahn
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • head and neck
  • human papillomavirus
  • minimal invasive
  • immunotherapy
  • quality of life

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Morphological Characteristics of the Double Mental Foramen and Its Relevance in Clinical Practice: An Observational Study
by Alejandro Bruna-Mejias, Pablo Nova-Baeza, Florencia Torres-Riquelme, Maria Fernanda Delgado-Retamal, Mathias Orellana-Donoso, Alejandra Suazo-Santibañez, Walter Sepulveda-Loyola, Iván Valdés-Orrego, Juan Sanchis-Gimeno and Juan José Valenzuela-Fuenzalida
Diagnostics 2024, 14(12), 1277; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14121277 - 17 Jun 2024
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The mental foramen (MF) is an opening found bilaterally on the anterolateral aspect of the mandible; it can be round or oval and have different diameters. One of the anatomical variants of the jaw is the presence of an accessory mental foramen (AMF). [...] Read more.
The mental foramen (MF) is an opening found bilaterally on the anterolateral aspect of the mandible; it can be round or oval and have different diameters. One of the anatomical variants of the jaw is the presence of an accessory mental foramen (AMF). These are usually smaller than the MF and can be located above, below, or to the sides of the main MF. The objective of this study was to recognize the presence of AMF in dry jaws of the Chilean population and collect information about its clinical relevance reported in the literature. In this descriptive observational study, we have collected dried jaws obtained from three higher education institutions in Santiago de Chile, from the Department of Morphology of the Andrés Bello University, the Normal Human Anatomy Unit of the University of Santiago, and the Human Anatomy pavilion from the Faculty of Medicine of the Finis Terrae University. The samples for this research were obtained by convenience, and the observation of the jaws was carried out in the human anatomy laboratories of each institution by three evaluators independently, and a fourth evaluator was included to validate that each evaluation was correct. The sample for this research came from 260 dry jaws, showing the following findings from the total jaws studied, and to classify as an accessory MF, it will be examined and measured so that it complies with what is declared in the literature as the presence of AMF, which is between 0.74 mm. and 0.89 mm. There were 17 studies included with a sample that fluctuated between 1 and 4000, with a cumulative total of 7946 and an average number of jaws analyzed from the studies of 467.4, showing statistically significant differences between the means with the sample analyzed in this study; p = 0.095. For the cumulative prevalence of the presence of AMF, this was 3.07 in this study, and in the compared studies, the average of AMF was 8.01%, which did not present a statistically significant difference; p = 0.158. Regarding the presence of variants of unilateral AMF, this occurred in five jaws, which is equivalent to 1.84% in the sample of this study, while in previous studies, it was 7.5%, being higher on the left side than on the right. The presence of AMF is a variant with high prevalence if we compare it with other variants of the jaw. Knowledge of the anatomy and position of the AMF is crucial to analyze different scenarios in the face of surgical procedures or conservative treatments of the lower anterior dental region. Full article
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