Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to I Erdozáin Rodríguez.
We report a case of aspiration of a foreign body in the left tracheobronchial tree occurring in a laryngectomy, operated one year previously. The accident presented by fracture of the inner tracheostomy cannula. The literature is reviewed in order to explain possible causes of tracheostomy tube components breakage and to suggest methods for preventing such complications.
Account on a tongue thyroid case and bibliographic review of the subject. It is an anomaly due to the thyroid gland not come down. Symptomatic cases are scarce (around 400 reported in the literature). Diagnosis is basically scintigraphic. When there are symptoms management should begin with thyrotoxine. More severe instances require surgical exeresis.
Report of a carcinoma of renal clear cells, or hypernephroma, metastasized to parotid gland, in a 63 years old man. The occurrence of a mass progressively growing in link parotid was the early manifestation of the illness and the postsurgical anatomopathological study discovered the primary growth sitting in the kidney. Bibliographical survey of the subject and clinical, diagnostical and therapeutic features of this case as well.
A case of osteogenic sarcoma of the mastoid region of the temporal bone in a 28-year-old male is reported. The rarity of the site is emphasized and the fundamental clinical and therapeutic features are discussed. The literature is reviewed.