Head and neck surgery Flashcards
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Epidemiology of sjorgrens
Female
Post menopausal
Features of acute otitis external
Acute pain on moving the pinna
Conductive hearing loss if lesion is large
When rupture occurs pus will flow from ear
Features of acute otitis media
Most common in children and rare in adults
May present with symptoms elsewhere (e.g. vomiting) in children
Severe pain and sometimes fever
May present with discharge if tympanic rupture occurs
Feature of pleomorphic adenoma
Pleomorphic adenomas are the commonest tumours of the parotid gland and are often slow growing, smooth and mobile
Features of warthog tumour
Second most common benign parotid tumor (5%)
Most common bilateral benign neoplasm of the parotid
Marked male as compared to female predominance
Occurs later in life (sixth and seventh decades)
Presents as a lymphocytic infiltrate and cystic epithelial proliferation
multiple cysts and solid components consisting of lymphoid tissue
Features of monomorphic adenoma
Account for less than 5% of tumours
Slow growing
Consist of only one morphological cell type (hence term mono)
Include; basal cell adenoma, canalicular adenoma, oncocytoma, myoepitheliomas
Post thyroidectomy- difficulty speaking and stridor what damage?
Bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve injury
Nerves involved in speach
Superior laryngeal nerve (SLN)
Innervates the cricothyroid muscle
Recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN)/Inferior laryngeal nerve
Innervates intrinsic larynx muscles
Use of cricothyroid and pathology
Since the cricothyroid muscle is involved in adjusting the tension of the vocal fold for high notes during singing, SLN paresis and paralysis result in:
a. Abnormalities in pitch
b. Inability to sing with smooth change to each higher note (glissando or pitch glide)
Tenses laynrx- enlongating vocal cords
Small epithelial defect anterior to the left ear and is has been noted to discharge foul smelling material
Pre auricular sinus
Phayrngeal pouch features
posteromedial herniation between thyropharyngeus and cricopharyngeus muscles
Midline lump gurgles on palpation
Halitosis, regurgitation of undigested food, coughing at night and throat infections.
Foul smelling ear discharge and facial nerve weakness
Cholesteatoma
Cholestetoma features
Destructive and expanding growth of keratinised squamous epithelium
Patients often complain of chronic ear discharge
Infection with Pseudomonas may occur resulting in foul smell to discharge
Adenoid cystic carcinoma features
Infiltrates the facial nerve and may cause neuropathy and facial pain.
Drugs causing parotid gland enlargement
Carbimazole
isoprenaline, phenylbutazone,
high oestrogen dose contraceptive pills
CIPO
Wharton vs stensens duct
Parotid -stensens
Submandibular-Wharton
Sx of Sialolithiasis
Patients typically develop colicky pain and post prandial swelling of the gland
halitosis recently and he frequently complains of a dry mouth
Ethmoidal sinusitis features
headache and a sensation of pressure between the eyes
Ethmoidal sinusitis may spread to the periorbital tissues resulting in periorbital cellulitis
Sarcoid features
Bilateral parotid swelling with facial nerve involvement
Reduces with steroids
Mass in submandibular gland, CT shows solid lesion, FNA undiagnostic what next
Submandibular gland excision
Tx of pleomorphic adenoma
Superficial parotidectomy
Pleomorphic adenoma histology
Biphasic appearance of the lesion and mucinous connective tissue
mixed stromal and epithelial elements
Brachial cyst features
An oval, mobile cystic mass that develops between the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the pharynx
Develop due to failure of obliteration of the second branchial cleft in embryonic development
Usually present in early adulthood
Ameloblastoma sx
Ameloblastomas are rare tumours of the odontogenic epithelium.
They are slow growing and expand with a rim of periosteum that surrounds them.
It is the palpation and disruption of this layer that gives rise to the crepitus.