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From practice
From practiceThe role of ENT-sepsis in diagnostics of oropharyngeal cancer
T. A. Lazarchik (1), T. G. Pelishenko (1), I. V. Ponomarev (1), F. N. Koryagin (1)
(1) Сlinical Hospital № 1 of Presidents Administration of Russian Federation, 121352, Moscow, Russia
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2018-3-101-106
ABSTRACT
The article presents a clinical case of acute suppurative disease of ENT-organs; in the process of treatment of the disease, a malignant tumor of oropharynx with the primary lesion in the right palatine tonsil was revealed which was the cause of hospitalization of this patient into the in-patient department. The article presents a clinical picture of the disease, describing the stages of examination of the patient which became the basis of diagnostics. The authors provide the results of laboratory and instrumental methods of examination in dynamics before and after the surgery, the results of a histologic examination which enabled the final diagnostics and determining the approach to the further examination and treatment of the patient.
Publication date:
31.05.2018
Keywords:
palatine tonsils, chronic tonsillitis, paratonsillar abscess, neoplasm. For citation:
Lazarchik T. A., Pelishenko T. G., Ponomarev I. V., Koryagin F. N. The role of ENT-sepsis in diagnostics of oropharyngeal cancer. Rossiiskaya otorinolaringologiya. 2018;3:101–106. https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2018-3-101-106