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M Marcos

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The EORTC QLQ-C30 (version 3.0) Quality of Life questionnaire: validation study for Spain with head and neck cancer patients.

The EORTC Quality of Life Study Group has developed a questionnaire for evaluating Quality of Life in international clinical trials: QLQ-C30. The purpose of the present work is to validate the third version of this questionnaire (3.0) for use in Spain. Two hundred and one head and neck cancer patients completed the QLQ-C30 at one or two time points during the treatment and follow-up periods, and a subsample completed the questionnaire on three occasions. Psychometric evaluation of the structure, reliability and validity of the questionnaire was undertaken. The data support the structure and the reliability of the scales. Validity was confirmed in three ways: the interscale correlations are statistically significant and moderate, several scales and items discriminate among groups of patients with different scores on the clinical variables, and some scales reflect significant changes during treatment and the follow-up period. The EORTC QLQ-C30 (version 3.0) is a reliable and valid questionnaire when applied to a sample of Spanish head and neck cancer patients. These results are in line with previous studies.

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Intramuscular gluteal implants.

The authors present a new space for the placement of gluteal implants in augmentation gluteoplasty. Placement of implants in this intramuscular anatomical space offers a good cosmetic result and seems to satisfy the demands of augmentation gluteoplasty in terms of safety, reproducibility, and esthetics.

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[A new sclerosant for the treatment of Rendu-Osler-Weber disease].

We report the cases of two women with Rendu-Osler-Weber disease and severe epistaxis. After several procedures failed (electrocoagulation, vascular clamping, dermoplasty, embolization), submucosal infiltration of a sclerosant was performed using the new product etoxysclerol. Epistaxis remained under control after two years of monitoring.

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[Design of a program of quality control of nursing in an intensive care unit].

Although in the last few years care quality programs have started to be used in services, these are still few in nursing equipment. Our aim is to show the process we have followed to design a nursing care quality program in ICU. We developed the stages of process, where a list of general activities performed in the service was created to establish a priority later, as it was necessary, due to the high number of aspects or activities to monitor, to choose those we would use to start the quality control program. The ultimate order was settled with the following activities: 1. Surveillance of the infection. 2. Accidental withdrawal of tubes and catheters. 3. Pressure ulcers.

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[Spontaneous cervical and mediastinal emphysema].

Cervical emphysema may have its origin in multiple causes. The continuity of the fascial planes connecting the soft tissues of the neck to the mediatinum and retroperitoneum enables the "aberrant air" localized in one of these three areas to spread to the other ones. The otolaryngologist must know the differential diagnosis of the presence of air in the neck, since the ultimate treatment to be given will depend on the etiology involved. We present two clinical cases of cervical emphysema secondary to spontaneous pneumomediastinum. One of the cases is idiopathic while the other one is associated with diabetic ketoacidosis. We analyze this and other causes that can give rise to cervical emphysema.

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