lymphadenopathy/edema

This study consist of 51 participants diagnosed with pericoronitis who received coadjuvant treatment with gel. The participants were submitted to emergency treatment, with local debridement and irrigation with saline solution followed by topical application of the randomized gel: oxyflower®,

CASE PRESENTATION Case 1 An 8 year-old male started 48 hrs prior to admission with abdominal pain in the right lower quadrant associated with vomiting and fever. The physical examination revealed discrete bilateral conjunctival hiperemia, right cervical adenomegaly, and severe abdominal pain in the

Primary oral infection with the herpes simplex virus (HSV) typically occurs at a young age, is asymptomatic, and is not associated with significant morbidity. After primary oral infection, HSV may persist in a latent state in the trigeminal ganglion and later reactivate as the more common herpes

Breast cancer survivors are at risk of complications of breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) after surgical treatments, which may negatively effect on the quality of life of breast cancer survivors. Lymphedema has been clinically diagnosed by determining that a limb is in fact swollen, and has

Study design and sample description This prospective study was performed at the Department of Oral Surgery of Clinical Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia, in the period from April 2010. through November 2016. All patients voluntarily agreed and written consent to participate in the study was obtained

Third molar surgery is the most common surgical procedure in dentistry. A comfortable, fast postoperative return to daily activities has increased the need to control inflammation and its signs and symptoms, such as pain and edema. Anti-inflammatories and analgesics have been used for this purpose,

Head and neck cancer (HNC) is the sixth leading incident cancer worldwide with 600,000 cases expected in 2012.1 The vast majority of cases are head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), comprising > 90% of histologies. Despite advances in multimodality therapy for HNSCC, 5-year overall survival

Introduction: Pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) therapy is a noninvasive method for delivering pulsed radiofrequency energy to tissues to treat postoperative pain and edema. This randomized clinical trial was designed to assess the clinical efficacy of PEMF delivered with a wearable device in

BACKGROUND: KSHV inflammatory cytokine syndrome (KICS) is a newly recognized syndrome caused by Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). It is characterized by severe inflammatory symptoms including fevers, wasting, cytopenias, hypoalbuminemia, and hyponatremia, associated in some cases with

HIV-related multicentric Castleman disease (MCD) is a lymphoproliferative disorder characterized by lymphadenopathy with angiofollicular hyperplasia and plasma cell infiltration, associated with KSHV/HHV-8. Patients typically have systemic manifestations such as fever associated with

BACKGROUND: Kawasaki Syndrome is an acute febrile illness that occurs predominantly in previously healthy young children. It is of unknown etiology and was first described in Japan in 1967. The illness carries an acute mortality rate of approximately 3 percent. The Centers for Disease Control