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Bianco MR, Ralli M, Minni A, Greco A, de Vincentiis M, Allegra E. Evaluation of olfactory dysfunction persistence after COVID-19: a prospective study. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2022; 26:1042-1048. [PMID: 35179771 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202202_28014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Alterations of the olfactory function in patients affected by COVID-19 often have an early onset and a variable duration ranging from a few weeks to months. The aim of this study was to evaluate olfactory dysfunction persistence after recovery from COVID-19, and potential related clinical-demographic conditions. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 76 patients recovered from COVID-19 from at least 20 days with olfactory dysfunction during the infection were included in the study. For the subjective evaluation of olfactory function, a visual analogic scale (VAS) was used. The objective evaluation was performed with the use of the Sniffin' Sticks test. RESULTS Objective assessment of olfactory function revealed that 48 (63.16%) patients were found to be normosmic (TDI ≥ 30.5), 26 (34.21%) were hyposmic (TDI from 30.5 to 16.5) and two (2.63%) were anosmic (TDI ≤ 16.5) at the time of the evaluation. These results did not show a significant difference between subjective and objective tests (p = 0.45). Most patients recovered their sense of smell within the first two months after recovery while a portion (22.2%) still experienced olfactory alterations 4-6 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Patients who had not recovered their sense of smell had a significantly longer period of SARS-CoV-2 positivity compared to patients that fully recovered (36.07 ± 7.78 days vs. 29 ± 7.89 days; p = 0.04). CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that the duration of the infection negatively correlates with the recovery of olfactory function.
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- M R Bianco
- Otolaryngology Unit, Department of Health Science, University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
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Trapasso S, Garozzo A, Belfiore A, Allegra E. Evaluation of the CD44 isoform v-6 (sCD44var, v6) in the saliva of patients with laryngeal carcinoma and its prognostic role. Cancer Biomark 2016; 16:275-80. [PMID: 26756618 DOI: 10.3233/cbm-150565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND The soluble fraction of the CD44 protein (solCD44) may constitute a valuable biological marker of Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs), useful for screening/early detection of laryngeal cancer, and for the prognosis. In previous papers, in fact, we have studied the expression of salivary solCD44 in patients with laryngeal tumors, supporting its use for early diagnosis of laryngeal carcinoma with high sensitivity and specificity, also with prognostic role, useful for clinical outcome. OBJECTIVE The purpose of present study was to verify the levels of solCD44 isoform v6, sCD44var (v6), in saliva samples of patients with laryngeal carcinoma in our tumoral biobank, to evaluate possible correlations with clinical-anamnestic and prognostic data. METHODS Study design was retrospective. Salivary samples of 66 patients with laryngeal cancer recruited from January 2012 to December 2013 were selected from our tumoral biobank. For each salivary sample was performed the determination of solCD44 and its isoform v6, sCD44var (v6), by ELISA. Qualitative and quantitative results of the test were correlated with clinical and medical history data. For statistical analysis we used the software MedCalc (versione 12.2.1.0). RESULTS Concentrations of salivary sCD44var v6 were significantly higher according to the size of the primary tumor (T) (p= 0.001), the tumor site glottic or supraglottic-transglottic (p= 0.005) and according to the metastatic lymph node involvement (p= 0005). Furthermore, tumors in advanced disease (stage III-IV) showed values of salivary sCD44var v6 higher than the tumors in early stage, with a statistically significant difference (p= 0.005). CONCLUSIONS The determination of the levels of salivary solCD44 v6 may represent a promising prognostic test in laryngeal carcinomas.
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- S Trapasso
- Department of Otolaryngology, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Otolaryngology, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Endocrinology, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
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- Department of Otolaryngology, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
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BACKGROUND Rhabdomyosarcomas (RMSs) are a group of soft-tissue malignant tumors which derive from primitive skeletal muscle tissue that mainly affect children and adolescents. RMSs are very rare in adults, where they are usually located in the extremities. CASE PRESENTATION A previously healthy 32-year-old male presented at our ENT (ear, nose and throat) outpatient clinic after experiencing a parotid region swelling for 2 months. The patient was treated surgically by excising the mass and by modified radical ipsilateral neck dissection. Histological and immunohistochemical examination indicated masseteric alveolar RMS with lymphatic metastasis. The patient received radiochemotherapy, and he is still alive with no evidence of disease spread 1 year after diagnosis. CONCLUSION This is the first case of a masseter alveolar RMS to be reported in the literature in a patient older than 25 years; it highlights the broad spectrum of neoplasms that cause parotid region swellings and the importance of considering rare tumors during differential diagnosis.
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- T Franco
- Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Catanzaro, Italy
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Allegra E, Cristofaro MG, Cascini LG, Lombardo N, Tamburrini O, Garozzo A. 18FDG uptake in sinonasal inverted papilloma detected by positron emission tomography/computed tomography. ScientificWorldJournal 2012; 2012:943412. [PMID: 22919362 PMCID: PMC3415079 DOI: 10.1100/2012/943412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2012] [Accepted: 01/26/2012] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Inverted papilloma (IP) is a benign but locally aggressive sinonasal tumour. Aggressive surgical treatment has thus been traditionally recommended because of the risk of transformation in squamous carcinoma. CT and MRI are used to evaluate bone destruction and soft-tissue extension before surgery but may be ineffective to differentiate an inverted papilloma from squamous cell carcinoma. In recent years, F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18FDG-PET) is widely used as diffuse imaging procedure for diagnosis and followup of malignancy affecting the head and neck district. To evaluate the utility of 18FDG-PET/CT in the diagnosis of patients with suspicious lesions for IP, twelve patients with suspicious sinonasal inverted papilloma were selected for this study. 18FDG-PET/CT imaging was performed, and standard uptake value (SUV) was calculated for each patient. SUVmax was considered as the maximum value measured in the visualized lesions. Seven of the twelve cases exhibited uptake of 18FFDG with an SUVmax ranging from 1 to 8.1. Histopathologic diagnosis after surgery confirmed the diagnosis of IP in five cases; all these cases had an SUVmax > 3. The five cases, which exhibited absence of 18FDG uptake, had a histological diagnosis of absence of IP.
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- E Allegra
- Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Unit, Policlinico Germaneto-"Magna Graecia", University of Catanzaro, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.
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Allegra E, Lombardo N, Cascini G, La Boria A, Garozzo A, Tamburrini O. Possible role of 18FDG-PET/CT for the surveillance of sinonasal inverted papilloma. Clin Otolaryngol 2010; 35:249-51. [PMID: 20636761 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4486.2010.02131.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Allegra E, Baudi F, La Boria A, Fagiani F, Garozzo A, Costanzo FS. Multiple head and neck tumours and their genetic relationship. Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital 2009; 29:237-241. [PMID: 20162022 PMCID: PMC2821131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2009] [Accepted: 08/29/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Second primary tumours represent one of the major causes of failure in the treatment of head and neck cancer. Advances in early diagnosis and treatment have improved the patient's disease-specific survival. However, the increase in the occurrence of second primary tumours negatively influences the patient's chance of long-term survival. To understand the molecular events underlying the appearance of head and neck multiple tumours, the clinical history has been evaluated in 2 patients both of whom developed 3 primary tumours of the head and neck. To establish the genetic relationship between the different head and neck cancers which had developed in these 2 patients, loss of heterozygosity was investigated using microsatellite markers located on chromosomes 3p, 9p, 11q, 13q, and 17p. These markers were selected as they frequently demonstrate loss of heterozygosity in head and neck cancer. The following markers were used: D3S1234, D3S1300, D9S170, D11S490, and D17S158. Primer sequences were obtained from the genome database for all of these markers. The third tumour that developed in the first patient, 13 years after the primary, showed loss of heterozygosity on chromosome 17p (in the locus for the gene TP53), which was not present in the previous tumours. All tumours in the second patient showed heterozygosity of chromosome 11 at the locus D11S490. These 2 cases show that multiple tumours can be derived from a genetic alteration of a subclone from previous tumours or from an independent preneoplastic cell clone present in the head and neck mucosa.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/genetics
- Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/pathology
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 13/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9/genetics
- Head and Neck Neoplasms/genetics
- Humans
- Laryngeal Neoplasms/genetics
- Laryngeal Neoplasms/pathology
- Male
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Neoplasms, Second Primary/genetics
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- E Allegra
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy
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Allegra E, Garozzo A, Lombardo N, De Clemente M, Carey TE. Mutations and polymorphisms in mitochondrial DNA in head and neck cancer cell lines. Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital 2006; 26:185-190. [PMID: 18236634 PMCID: PMC2639997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2005] [Accepted: 06/24/2006] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Changes in mitochondrial DNA have been reported in cancer cells. Since little information exists regarding mt DNA mutations in head and neck, the present study focused on ten head and neck cancer cell lines in the attempt to detect alterations in the ND4 gene sequence. DNA was extracted from 10 head and neck squamous cell carcinoma lines from 9 patients. MtDNA sequences were compared in normal and tumour cell line DNA. In ten head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cell lines, 8 somatic mutations and 5 polymorphisms of the mitochondrial gene for ND4 were found. All 5 polymorphisms were silent. Of the 8 somatic mutations, 3 altered the amino acid sequence suggesting a possible effect on enzyme function. The mitochondrial mutations and polymorphisms found demonstrated that these can serve as clonal markers for individual cell lines and demonstrate that the mitochondrial genome remains stable in the cell lines during in vitro culture.
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- E Allegra
- Otorhinolaryngology Unit, Garibaldi-Nesima Hospital, Catania, Italy
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Allegra E, Puzzo L, Cutrona D, Trichini A, Garozzo A, Serra A. p53 overexpression on the resection margins as a marker of local recurrence in glottic T1a carcinoma. Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital 2003; 23:454-8. [PMID: 15198048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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Glottic carcinoma, in the early stage, may benefit, with excellent results "quoad vitam atque quoad valitudinem", from various modes of treatment--radiotherapy, laser microsurgery and cordectomy being the most common--in definitive cure of the disease. Nevertheless, recurrence, in relation to treatment, oscillates between 4.3-24.1% with laser CO2 surgery, 5.5-32.4% for cordectomy and 5.3-34% for radiotherapy. Prognostic biological markers of recurrence remain to be elucidated, mainly due to the clinical differences in the subjects examined. The present study focused on patients with glottic T1a carcinoma treated with CO2 laser surgery in which correlation between histo-pathological aspects and expression of p53 protein on resection borders were confirmed by onset of local recurrence. Study population comprised 39 patients treated with CO2 laser surgery (January 1985-December 1991) in Clinical Division of Otorhinolarygology, University of Catania. Survival rate, free from recurrence, at 3 and 5 years for this patient group was 87.1% (34/39) and 82% (32/39), respectively. Disease-free survival at 3 and 5 years, was 86.6% in patients with positive resection margins for carcinoma and 87.5% and 79.1%, respectively, for patients with negative resection margins. Survival rate, free from local recurrence, in p53 positive patients, at 3 and 5 years was 78.9% and 68.4%, respectively. In p53 negative patients, survival, free from local recurrence, at 3 and 5 years, was 94.7%. Presence of overexpression of oncoprotein p53 on borders of resection with aspects of dysplasia of various degrees seems, therefore, a marker of high risk of tumour progression and recurrence.
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- E Allegra
- Department of Medicine and Surgery, Section of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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Li Volti S, Allegra E, Iozzo D, Palmeri S, Garozzo R, Garozzo A. The nasal mucosa of children with nocturnal enuresis before and after treatment with 1-deamino 8-D-arginine vasopressin spray. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2001; 58:211-4. [PMID: 11335008 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-5876(01)00431-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Intranasal administration of 1-deamino 8-D-arginine vasopressin (DDVAP) used for treatment of nocturnal enuresis (NE), might be expected to have various effects on the nasal mucosa, e.g. altering the clearance by the mucociliary apparatus. We evaluated two samples (brushes) of epithelial surface cells from the nasal mucosa, one from each nostril, of 18 children (ten males and eight females) with a mean age of 7.7 years (range: 5-13 years) who were affected by primary NE. Samples were taken before and 1 and 6 months after administration of DDVAP spray. No qualitative changes in the epithelial surface cells from nasal mucosa were recognized and only non-statistically significant increases in percentages of goblet, ciliated, basal and unciliated cells at 1 and 6 months after therapy were observed. Thus, it appears that DDVAP spray can be used for at least 6 months in children without apparent risk of damage to the epithelial surface cells from the nasal mucosa.
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- S Li Volti
- Department of Pediatrics, Città Universitaria, Via S. Sofia 78, 95123, Catania, Italy.
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Allegra E, La Mantia I, Lavina R, Palmeri S, Garozzo A. [Nuclear DNA content in squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue: prognostic significance]. Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital 2000; 20:267-72. [PMID: 11234445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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The prognosis is poor for advanced (stage III-IV) carcinomas of the tongue. The appearance of metastatic lymph nodes drastically reduces the 2-years survival rate because, in approximately 30% of the cases, metastatic lymph nodes are already present at the time of diagnosis, even in T1, but go undetected. The incidence of lymph nodes metastases has also been related to histological grading. However, this has not proved to be a reliable prognostic parameter, most likely because of the subjectivity of histopathological interpretation. Analysis of the DNA content, in association with other histopathological parameters, has proved to be a useful prognostic marker for other forms of tumors. This could also be the case for carcinomas of the tongue. The present study involved 26 patients who came under observation at the Otorhinolaryngology Clinic of the University of Catania between January 1990 and February 1995. All patients were subject to biopsy sampling and subsequent treatment. According to the UICC classification, then slides were prepared and stained according to Feulgen. A computerized image analysis system (Image-ProPlus) was used to determine the quantity of tumoral nuclear DNA. Analysis of the nuclear DNA content showed that 7 of the 26 carcinomas of the tongue (26.9%) were diploid, 19 (73.1%) aneuploid and of these 7 were also polypoid. In the aneuploid carcinomas the average DI was 1.50 with a range running from 0.70 to 3.1. The correlation of 3-year survival and the clinically studied DNA content showed that 6 of the 11 stage I-II patients were disease-free and had an average tumoral DNA index of 0.95. On the other hand, those cases which showed progression or local recurrences had an average tumoral DI of 1.25. In the group of stage III-IV patients 5 were disease free and showed an average tumoral DNA index of 1.03 while those showing recurrence or progression of the disease had an index of 1.94. The above results appear to confirm that the risk of progression or recurrence is strictly linked to an increase in the average DNA value.
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- E Allegra
- Dipartimento di Specialità Medico-Chirurgiche, Sezione di Otorinolaringoiatria, Università di Catania
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Garozzo A, Cutrona D, Palmeri S, Maiolino L, Puzzo L, Allegra E. [The role of p53 tumor suppressor gene as prognostic factor in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma]. Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital 1999; 19:342-7. [PMID: 10875157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Mutations in the p53 gene--which codifies anuclear phosphoprotein that acts as a tumor suppressor gene--is the most common genetic alteration in head and neck cancers. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prognostic significance of p53 protein over expression in squamous cell laryngeal carcinoma. To do so we analyzed 31 patients affected by precancerous lesions of the larynx who had undergone multiple biopsy between 1980 and 1995. Twenty-five of these patients later developed laryngeal carcinoma. In this group of patients, 51 biopsies were performed for precancerous lesions (17 hyperplasia, 3 light dysplasia, 23 moderate dysplasia, 8 severe dysplasia) prior to evidence of laryngeal cancer (2.04 biopsies/patient). In the group of patients who did not develop laryngeal cancer, 18 biopsy were performed (2.2 biopsies/patient) and histology revealed: 5 keratosis, 5 light dysplasia, 4 moderate dysplasia and 4 grave dysplasia. Using the immunohistopathological staining technique, 69 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded precancerous samples and 25 laryngeal carcinomas were examined for p53 over expression. The monoclonal antibody Pab 1801 was used with the avidinbiotin immunoperoxidase technique; p53 intensity of expression was assessed and correlated with clinical-pathological parameters. Over expression of the p53 protein was found in 56.8% of the precancerous lesions (41% of the hyperplastic lesions, 66% of light dysplastic lesions, 60% of moderate dysplastic lesions and 75% of severe dysplastic lesions) in the group patients who did develop laryngeal cancer and in 22.2% of the precancerous lesions in the group of patients that did not. The transformed lesions showed a strong correlation between intensity of positivity and grade of cellular atypia. Further in 93.3% of the patients with p53 positive precancerous lesions which later developed into laryngeal cancer, p53 over expression was present in the cancerous lesions. There was no significant correlation between p53 immuno reactivity and such clinico pathological tumor parameters as TNM staging and tumorrecurrence. On the other hand, there was a correlation between p53 overexpression and differentiation grading: p53 overexpression was found in 75% of the poorly differentiated tumors, 58.3% of moderately differentiated and 44.4% of well differentiated tumors. The fact that p53 is detected in preneoplastic lesions suggests that p53 gene alteration takes place very early in laryngeal carcinoma and moderate-to-high p53 expression constitutes a high risk of transformation into cancer; on the other hand low expression may reflect reversible changes that can be attributed to the genotoxic effects of tobacco smoking. In conclusion the present data suggest that p53 over expression could be a good prognostic marker in predicting which precancerous laryngeal lesions will progress into cancer.
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- A Garozzo
- Dipartimento di Specialità Medico-Chirurgiche, Università di Catania
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Tranchina MG, Allegra E, Greco P, Puzzo L. [Lymph node inflammatory pseudotumor. Description of a case]. Pathologica 1997; 89:733-6. [PMID: 9549381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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A case of inflammatory pseudotumor of lymph node in a 56-year-old man is described. The awareness of this benign reaction pattern is of great importance for differential diagnosis with many nodal lesions.
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- M G Tranchina
- Cattedra di Anatomia e Istologia patologica, Università di Catania
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Tranchina MG, Puzzo L, Allegra E. [Spindle-cell carcinoma of the larynx]. Pathologica 1995; 87:195-8. [PMID: 8532417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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- M G Tranchina
- Cattedra di Anatomia e Istologia Patologica, Università di Catania
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The purpose of this study was to determine the most frequent chromosomal abnormalities in laryngeal carcinomas. Biopsy specimens of surgical resections from laryngeal squamous cell carcinomas from 15 patients representing different degrees of histologic differentiation were analyzed in short-term culture. Nine of the 15 tumors were hypodiploid with 41 to 45 chromosomes, and four of the 15 tumors were polyploid with more than 50 chromosomes. The most frequent chromosomal alterations we noted included deletion of the short arm of chromosome 3 in 60%, monosomy of chromosome 11 in 30%, and inversions of chromosome 9 and 16 that were present in 20% of the cases.
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- E Allegra
- Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Catania, Italy
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Zupi E, Valli E, Allegra E, Marconi D, Baschieri L. [Crohn disease in pregnancy. Considerations on and discussion of a clinical case]. Minerva Ginecol 1992; 44:339-42. [PMID: 1635657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Crohn's disease with acute abdomen in pregnancy is described. The Authors evaluate Crohn's disease together with the diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic problems and relationships between this disease and pregnancy. They conclude as underlining the rarity of Crohn's disease beginning in pregnancy and so the importance of symptoms related to this disease in fertile age woman to make diagnosis and therapy before pregnancy.
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- Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologica, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
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Serra A, Grillo C, Saita V, Allegra E, La Mantia I. Group A streptococcal tonsillitis: comparative evaluation of kits for rapid diagnosis. J Chemother 1989; 1:20. [PMID: 16312287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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- A Serra
- E.N.T. Department - University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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A new method to test the sensitivity of human tumor cells has been developed. A suspension of mechanically dissociated tumor cells is kept in continuous incubation for 24h, in cultures with antineoplastic agents. Drug induced cell cycle perturbations are monitored by flow cytometric computer analysis and DNA distributions of the cells stained with propidium iodide are expressed in percentage. The test is used in 15 head and neck human solid tumors. The drugs tested were: VCR, EpiDx, CDDP, MTX, 5-FU, CPM, BLM. The results obtained reveal that tumor sensitivity varies independently from the stage and malignity grading. Therapeutic combinations are assigned by selecting the drugs on the basis of the individual in vitro response.
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- A Garozzo
- Istituto di Otorinolaringoiatria dell'Università di Catania, Italy
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Garozzo A, Rossi M, Denaro A, Allegra E, Santangelo G, Amato M, Tomasello C. [Short-term chemosensitivity test in the antineoplastic treatment of head and neck tumors]. Acta Otorrinolaringol Esp 1988; 39:389-92. [PMID: 3078432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Garozzo A, Mario R, Denaro A, Triolo C, Allegra E. Flow cytometric evaluation of cell-cycle phases in laryngeal carcinomas. Rev Chir Oncol Radiol O R L Oftalmol Stomatol Otorinolaringol 1988; 33:175-8. [PMID: 2975017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Garozzo A, Rossi M, Denaro A, Allegra E, Santangelo G, Amato CM, Tomasello C. [Analysis of nuclear DNA content in laryngeal tumors]. Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital 1988; 8:117-23. [PMID: 3188901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Capalbi A, Buzzi M, Alessandrini A, Allegra E, Mogini C, Di Salvo G. [Treatment of urinary infections in gynecology. Comparative study of norfloxacin, oxolinic acid and pipemidic acid carried out on ambulatory patients]. MINERVA UROL NEFROL 1987; 39:383-9. [PMID: 3451376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Deragna S, Previsdomini F, De Gasperis E, Allegra E, Veneri R, Sipione A, Petrangeli R, Alessi F, Basile G, Petrangeli MF. [Neonatal hyperammonemia]. Minerva Pediatr 1981; 33:553-8. [PMID: 7266434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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