General Principles and Management Bruce J. Davidson Kenneth A. Newkirk Kenneth D. Burman THYROID CANCER Introduction Epidemiology—Increasing Incidence of Thyroid Cancer. According to cancer statistics, there has been a substantial…
Systemic Targeted Therapy for Recurrent and Metastatic Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer Matthew G. Fury David G. Pfister This chapter reviews chemotherapy options for patients with recurrent and metastatic…
General Principles and Management Brian O’Sullivan Abha Gupta Patrick Gullane INTRODUCTION Sarcomas are rare malignancies of mesodermal origin. The annual incidence is <10,000 per year in North America. Fifteen percent…
Radiologic Imaging Concerns Jeffrey A. Bennett Almost all varieties of sarcoma occur in the head and neck, and virtually all warrant imaging prior to treatment. When the tumor is small,…
Radiologic Imaging Concerns Jeffrey A. Bennett Thyroid nodules are detected frequently on physical examination and are found even more commonly on imaging studies of the neck, including computed tomography (CT),…
Surgical Technique James Kenneth Byrd Samuel L. Oyer Eric J. Lentsch Historically, little change has occurred in thyroid surgery since Theodore Kocher developed the classic techniques of thyroid surgery described…
General Principles and Management Spiros Manolidis Kenneth S. Hu Mark S. Persky INTRODUCTION Paragangliomas represent highly vascular neoplasms that embryologically arise from the paraganglia of neural crest origin and most…
Radiation Therapy Technique William M. Mendenhall The treatment technique depends on the location of the tumor, the number of lesions (1 or ≥2), and whether the tumor is malignant. The…
Radiation Therapy Technique William M. Mendenhall Malignancies involving the lateral skull base are treated with techniques similar to those described for parotid neoplasms. A wedge-pair technique may be employed; the…
General Principles and Management Esther X. Vivas Andrew A. McCall Paul A. Gardner Carl H. Snyderman INTRODUCTION, NATURAL HISTORY, PATHOLOGY, AND PATHOGENESIS Lateral skull base malignancy is rare. The lateral…
