background: the locally advanced head and neck cancer with fixed nodes are incurable and has a short survival. this study aims to evaluate the symptom relief, disease response and acute toxicity after palliative hypofractionated radiotherapy. methods: between december 2010 to june 2011, previously untreated 50 patients who had histopathologically proved of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma ...

Neck pain is a complaint that often causes person to come health facility for treatment. Auto stretching technique of the muscles with correct direction pulling which done independently aim reducing pain. Based on data collected, it was found (80%) junior high school students who had less knowledge and sufficient 3 (15%). After conducting counseling neck auto stretching, there an increase in pe...

Introduction: Neck pain is a very common complaint in everyday life. multifactorial disease with many associated risk factors. In population studies, 20-60% of women and 15-40% men have experienced neck pain. health problem that can develop interfere person daily activity. Method: This research descriptive analytic survey research, which aims to know about the students Medical Education Study P...

the most common metastatic sites for colorectal carcinomas include the liver, lungs, brain, bones and peritoneal surfaces. in this report, a case of sigmoid colon carcinoma presented with cervical lymphadenopathy was detected with the help of pet/ct. a 57 year-old male presented with a complaint of swelling on the left side of his neck. ultrasonographic examination of the neck revealed three hy...

conclusions pneumoventricle is rare but it can be established after spinal trauma. by awareness of such possibility, accurate diagnosis by clinical examination and imaging is essential for these types of injuries introduction the presence of air within the intracranial cavity, due to the entry of air secondary to an abnormal communication after a dural tear, is defined as pneumocephalus and int...

      Thyroid enlargement and nodules are very rare in children, but when they occur, the chance of malignancy among these nodules is very high. Thyroid carcinoma is rare in childhood, but in the last two decades, its incidence has increased two-fold. A painless nodule in the neck is the most common presentation of the disease. Dysphagia, hoarseness, cervical lymphadenopathy, weight loss, and f...

BACKGROUND No previous research has been performed into neck pain among forklift operators. This is a common complaint among these workers, who number around 150,000 in Sweden and six million in Europe. The aim of the study was to examine long-term exposure to unnatural neck positions among forklift operators as a risk factor for neck pain. METHODS A retrospective cohort study was conducted o...

Chondrolipomas are mesenchymal tumors that found as mature cartilage tissue in a fat tissue. A 2-year-old boy was seen with a complaint of a mass of the neck. On physical examination of the child, there was a one-centimeter mass above the sternocleidomastoid muscle on the lateral neck. Pathological examination of this mass after excision was reported as chondrolipoma. Chondrolipomas are seen mo...

The objective of this study was to describe the occurrence of neck pain, shoulder pain and back pain among dentists and to assess the risk factors affecting them. Sixty-eight dentists from Dharan and Biratnagar were interviewed using pretested questionnaires in January 2006. Back pain was the most common complaint affecting almost 80% of the study population, followed by neck pain (58.8%) and s...