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  • Book
    Tadaaki Kirita, Ken Omura, editors.
    Summary: Oral cancer is frequently diagnosed late, when the disease has advanced with lesions that are large and deeply invasive and with metastasis to regional lymph nodes, leading to increased mortality. Moreover, late diagnosis and treatment often result in considerable morbidity of oral and maxillofacial structures and poor appearance and function following therapy. This book provides head and neck oncologists, oral oncologists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, medical oncologists, dentists and other members of dental teams furnishing supportive care with a systematic review of recent diagnostic and therapeutic advances in oral cancer. The various authoritative chapters are prepared by specialists who are active leaders in each basic and clinical field. All chapters address individual and collective issues that arise in managing oral cancer patients with difficult treatment problems and provide insight into the multiple valid management approaches available. The authors offer an extensive source of information about oral cancers and encourage the clinician to be flexible and innovative, giving physicians and medical personnel the background information to make the best, educated, responsible decisions for individual patients.

    Contents:
    1. Epidemiology of the Oral Cancer
    2.Surgical Pathology of Oral Cancer
    3. Molecular Biology of the Oral Cancer
    4. Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders
    5. Imaging and Classification of Staging
    6. Clinical Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis
    7. Surgical Approaches to the Oral Cavity
    8. Management of the Neck
    9. Oral and Maxillofacial Reconstruction
    10. Prosthetic Reconstruction for the Oral Cancer Patients Using Dental Implants
    11. Radiotherapy
    12. Systemic Chemotherapy
    13. Chemoradiotherapy Using Retrograde Superselective Intra-Arterial Infusion for Advanced Oral Cancer
    14. Oral and dental healthcare for oral cancer patients: planning, management, and dental treatment
    15. Management of Speech Disorders Following Treatment for Oral Cancer
    16. Management of Dysphagia Following Treatment for Oral Cancer
    17. QOL Management in Oral Cancer Patients
    18. Palliative Care for Oral Cancer.
    Digital Access Springer 2015
  • Article
    Eriksson MBE, Sjölund BH, Nielzén S.
    Pain. 1979 Jun;6(3):335-347.
    In the present study 123 patients with chronic pain, consecutively referred for symptomatic pain treatment, were given peripheral conditioning stimulation as an analgesic measure and were followed for 2 years or till they terminated the treatment. The stimulation was either conventional transcutaneous nerve stimulation (TNS) [35] of mainly cutaneous afferents with high frequency (10-100 Hz) or acupuncture-like TNS [11] where muscle nerves are activated at a low repetition rate (1-4 Hz) with small trains of stimuli. The follow-up showed that 55, 41 and 31% of the patients continued the treatment after 3, 12 and 24 months, respectively. About 30% of the patients had to use acupuncture-like TNS to get useful analgesia, defined as a desire of the patient to continue stimulation treatment. Three-quarters of the successfully relieved patients reported more than 50% pain relief as measured from visual analogue scales and half of these reported an increased social activity and a decrease of analgesic drug intake by more than 50%. Psychogenic and visceral pains were less suitable for TNS treatment. It is concluded that peripheral conditioning stimulation is a valuable therapy in cases of chronic pain and that both conventional and acupuncture-like TNS should be tried before considering implantable devices or destructive surgery.
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