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R Jović

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At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1996

[Suicidal knife injuries of the neck].

During a 10-year period at the Otorhinolaryngology Clinic in Novi Sad (1984-1994), there were 19 patients with suicidal knife injuries of the neck. There were two mechanisms of injuries: cuts in 15 (78.9%) patients and stabs in 4 (21.10%). 9 injured patients had cut structures and open pharynx, 6 patients injured larynx and trachea, 2 injured only trachea and 2 patients injured pharynx and larynx. 3 (15.8%) patients had knife self-injuries on other parts of the body too, that is injuries of abdomen, top of the right lung lobe and wrist. The diagnosis was based on anamnestic data, clinical check-up, pharyngeal, laryngeal and esophageal directoscopy. Surgery was performed in less than 24 hours after injury. Injuries were successfully taken care of and swallowing, breathing and phonation were reestablished in 16 (84.2%) patients. Total laryngectomy with pharyngoplasty was performed in one patient with serious hypopharyngeal and esophageal injuries. Two patients (10.5%) died: one in the state of delirium tremens and one in serious hemorrhagic and traumatic shock.

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PubMed1994

[Malignant tumors of the oropharynx].

Data on 31 patient suffering from malignant tumors of oropharynx were analyzed during a 5 year period at the Clinic for otorhinolaryngologic diseases. Oropharynx carcinoma was pathohistologically diagnosed in all patients. It is an illness which occurs in older people, in 87% in patients older than 60 years of age, and mostly in males (9:1). 77.4% were smokers, 83.8% consumed alcohol while 38.7% were treated for alcoholism. The first and most frequent symptoms are odynophagia (58.1%) and dysphagia (38.7%). Metastases of lymph nodes of the neck were present in 64.5% of the sick at the time when sickness was diagnosed and all were ipsilateral. 25.8% of patients were surgically treated and 6 of them were also treated by radiation. 54.8% of patients were primarily treated with telecobalt therapy. Three year survival in 3 patients points to extremely negative localization of the malignant process with a bad course and outcome.

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