A 23-year-old male patient who sought emergency care with odynophagia, total dysphagia, and 7 days of fever, treated with oral amoxicillin and clavulanic acid without improvement. The physical examination and CT scan showed tonsillitis with multiple tonsilar abscesses. Due to total dysphagia even after intravenous analgesia, hospitalization was decided for supportive fluid therapy and analgesia. During hospital...
Introduction: TNM staging plays a central role in therapeutic decision-making, being also useful for estimating prognosis. Clinical staging (cTNM) is based on physical examination, endoscopy e imaging studies. Pathological staging (pTNM) is based on histopathological analysis after the surgical procedure. Discrepancies between cTNM and pTNM in larynx cancer have been reported in the literature, but some controv...
Introduction: The correct diagnosis of chronic rhinosinusitis with (CRSwNP) or without (CRSsNP) polyposis implies a well performed anamnesis and physical examination to, judiciously, request a paranasal sinuses CT scan (CT NS)1. Lund and Mackay suggested a paranasal sinuses opacification score (SLM)2 based on CT NS.Objective: To test a possible correlation between clinical findings and SLM.Methods: Retrospectiv...