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CASE REPORT Laryngeal Zoster Mimicking a Laryngeal Cancer Eisaku Higuchi, MD, Yuji Nakamaru, MD, Ryuichiro Ohwatari, MD, Tomoharu Sakashita, MD, Yasushi Mesuda, MD, Akihiro Homma, MD, Yasushi Furuta, MD, Satoshi Fukuda, MD, Sapporo, Japan H erpes zoster is a viral cutaneous eruption caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection. Clinically, her- pes zoster appears as a unilateral cluster of vesicular lesions with surrounding erythema in the dermatomal distribution of 1 or more adjacent sensory nerves. 1 The most common manifestation of herpes zoster in the head and neck region is Ramsay Hunt syndrome. This is a well-known VZV- associated disease characterized by the dysfunction of cra- nial nerves VII and VIII causing acute peripheral facial palsy, hearing loss, and zoster eruption around the ears. 2 Less commonly, the reactivation ...

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Laryngeal Cancer Epidemiology The Rhein-Neckar-Larynx Study Project team : Heiko Becher, Heribert Ramroth External collaborators: Andreas Dietz, Leipzig; Wolfgang Ahrens, Bremen; Angela Risch, DKFZ Heidelberg; Peter Schmezer, DKFZ Heidelberg The Rhein-Neckar-Larynx Study is a population-based case-control study 1:3 frequency matched by age and sex on laryngeal cancer in South-West Germany with 257 cases, histologically confirmed and diagnosed between 1.5.1998 and 31.12.2000 and 769 population controls. Information about occupational exposures, lifestyle factors and socio demographic background were obtained with face-to-face interviews using a detailed standardized questionnaire. As expected, highest risks on laryngeal cancer were found for smoking and alcohol consumption. For occupational exposures we found higher risks for polycyclic aromatic carbons, cement dust and wood dust, but ...

Trends in laryngeal cancer mortality in Europe Cristina Bosetti 1 * , Werner Garavello 1,2 , Fabio Levi 3 , Franca Lucchini 3 , Eva Negri 1 and Carlo LaVecchia 1,4 1 Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche ‘‘Mario Negri,’’ Milan, Italy 2 Clinica Otorinolaringoiatrica, DNTB, Universita` Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy 3 Registre Vaudois des Tumeurs, Institut Universitaire de M edecine Sociale et Pr eventive, Lausanne, Switzerland 4 Istituto di Statistica Medica e Biometria, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy After a steady increase since the 1950s, laryngeal cancer mortality had tended to level off since the early 1980s in men from most Euro- pean countries. To update trends in laryngeal cancer mortality in Europe, age-standardized (world standard) mortality ...