Nutrional Healing

BACKGROUND: We evaluated the effectiveness and safety of prophylactic PEG performed for the enteral nutrition support during the oncological treatment of patients with HNCs and as a part of the management of neurological patients experiencing neurogenic dysphagia. METHODS: In 2013 we followed up on a group of 23 HNC patients subjected to prophylactic PEG. We assessed the duration of the procedure, intraprocedural incidents and their causes, time to tube-refeeding and discharge after intervention, post interventional analgesia, early and late complications,toleration, costs and postoperative course of these patients after radical surgery maintaining PEG in place...

Vehicular accidents and Urban violence continues to be a major source of faciomaxillary injuries, Mandible being more commonly injured than other facial bones. A series of seventy five patients surgically treated for facial fractures between Jan '92 and Dec. '94 was reviewed. Of these, 51 had mandibular fractures at different sites like Angle and Body, Body and/or Symphysis and Ascen-ding Ramus. All these patients were treated with rigid internal fixation using Dynamic Compression Plate on A. O principle. It provided complete anatomical reduction and stimulated bone healing and full range of movement...