Association between the clinical and histopathological classifications of actinic keratosis and the efficacy of topical imiquimod treatment

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We investigated the association between the clinical and histopathological classifications of actinic keratosis (AK) and the efficacy of topical imiquimod treatment. Forty patients (55 lesions) with AK were treated with topical 5% imiquimod and the efficacy of imiquimod for AK was evaluated based on the clinical/histopathological changes. The complete remission (CR) rates in patients with the different clinical classifications of AK were 85.4% (erythematous type) and 46.2% (hyperkeratotic type). The CR rates in the different histopathological classifications of AK were 80% (hypertrophic type), 81.8% (atrophic type) and 42.9% (bowenoid type). The results revealed that determining the clinical and histopathological type of AK was important for selecting a therapeutic method. The topical imiquimod treatment could be expected to be more effective for AK clinically classified as the erythematous type, or histopathologically classified as the atrophic or hypertrophic type. However, it would be expected to be less effective for the treatment of AK clinically classified as the hyperkeratotic type or histopathologically classified as the bowenoid type. Our observations suggest that we can predict the efficacy of topical imiquimod therapy in AK by determining its clinical and histopathological type.

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Purpura fulminans in congenital protein C deficiency successfully treated with fresh frozen plasma and thrombomodulin

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Case of subungual tumoral melanosis: The detection of melanoma cells and dermoscopic features

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Successful treatment with rituximab in a Japanese patient with systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease resistant to oral steroid and cyclophosphamide

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Diagnostic criteria, severity classification and guideline of lichen sclerosus et atrophicus

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We established diagnostic criteria and severity classification of lichen sclerosus et atrophicus, because there is no established diagnostic criteria or widely accepted severity classification of the disease. Also, there is no clinical guideline for lichen sclerosus et atrophicus in Japan, so we proposed its clinical guideline. The clinical guidelines were formulated by clinical questions and recommendations on the basis of evidence-based medicine according to the New Minds Clinical Practice Guideline Creation Manual (version 1.0). We aimed to make the guidelines easy to use and reliable including the newest evidence, and to present guidance for various clinical problems in treatment of lichen sclerosus et atrophicus.

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Intraoral ultrasonography to measure tumor thickness of oral cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Publication date: February 2018
Source:Oral Oncology, Volume 77
Author(s): Thomas J.W. Klein Nulent, Rob Noorlag, Ellen M. Van Cann, Frank A. Pameijer, Stefan M. Willems, Adrian Yesuratnam, Antoine J.W.P. Rosenberg, Remco de Bree, Robert J.J. van Es
Early oral cancer is preferably treated by surgery. Its complete removal is essential for locoregional control and disease-free survival. Inadequate resection margins require adjuvant therapy such as re-resection or (chemo)radiation, that causes extra morbidity and oral discomfort. Intraoral ultrasonography (US) is reported to be of value in determining tumor thickness. Intraoperative visualization of the tumor may facilitate the resection and ensure adequate surgical margins. Furthermore, accurate prediction of tumor thickness could help determine the treatment strategy of the clinically node-negative neck, as thickness and depth of invasion are predictors of cervical metastasis as well as prognosticators of survival. The 8th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system for oral squamous cell carcinoma has included depth of invasion as parameter for cT-stage. The aim of this review is to analyze the accuracy of intraoral US in determining tumor thickness in oral cancer.A systematic search was conducted, and the quality of the included papers was assessed using the QUADAS-2 tool for diagnostic accuracy studies. Subsequently, a meta-analysis was performed on the available individual participant data of 240 patients.Most of the twelve included studies focused on T1-2 tongue cancer (n = 129). Meta-analysis showed a high correlation in tumor thickness within this subgroup as measured by intraoral US and histopathology (r = 0.82, p < .001), with minor overestimation of 0.5 mm on US. It is concluded that intraoral US is very accurate in determining tumor thickness in early oral tongue cancer.



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Postoperative staging of the neck dissection using extracapsular spread and lymph node ratio as prognostic factors in HPV-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients

Publication date: February 2018
Source:Oral Oncology, Volume 77
Author(s): Katarina Majercakova, Cristina Valero, Montserrat López, Jacinto García, Nuria Farré, Miquel Quer, Xavier León
ObjectivesThe presence of nodes with extracapsular spread (ECS) and the lymph node ratio (LNR) have prognostic competence in the pathologic evaluation of patients with a head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) treated with a neck dissection. The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of ECS & LNR on prognosis of HPV negative HNSCC patients treated with neck dissection and to compare to 8th edition TNM/AJCC classification.Materials and methodsWe carried out a retrospective study of 1383 patients with HNSCC treated with a neck dissection between 1985 and 2013. We developed a classification of the patients according to the presence of nodes with ECS and the LNR value with a recursive partitioning analysis (RPA) model.ResultsWe obtained a classification tree with four terminal nodes: for patients without ECS (including patients pN0) the cut-off point for LNR was 1.6%, while for patients with lymph nodes with ECS it was 11.4%. The 5-year disease-specific survival for patients without ECS/LNR < 1.6% was 83.3%; for patients without ECS/LNR ≥ 1.6% it was 61.5%; for patients with ECS/LNR < 11.4% it was 33.7%; and for patients with ECS/LNR ≥ 11.4% it was 18.5%. The classification obtained with RPA had better discrimination between categories than the 8th edition of the TNM/AJCC classification.ConclusionECS status and LNR value proved high prognostic capacity in the pathological evaluation of the neck dissection. The combination of ECS and LNR improved the predictive capacity of the 8th edition of the TNM/AJCC classification in HPV-negative HNSCC patients.



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