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Juniper Publishers-Open Access  Journal of                  Head Neck & Spine Surgery Head and Neck Cancer, Precision Medicine and Health Related Quality of Life: The Patient Is the Keystone Authored by Augusta Silveira Abstract Precision medicine is nothing new in health context, neither in oncology clinical practice. Although, focusing on the “individual” remains trendy, actual, relevant and opportune either for clinical practice, research purposes and particularly, for patients’ lives. Patient- reported outcomes are multidimensional and subjective measures that can be objectively quantified. They reflect patients’ perceptions about their health-status, symptoms, functioning, satisfaction degree with healthcare, health behaviors and health related quality of life. Patient- reported outcomes can capture the voice and experience during the head and neck patient disease journey favoring communication and shared decision-making and engaging both patients and healthcare

  Juniper Publishers-Open Access  Journal of Head Neck & Spine Surgery Periorbital Necrotizing Fasciitis in a Young Woman with Anorexia Nervosa-the Management and Considerations of Cosmetic and Functional Outcomes of Fulminant Disease in a Critically Unwell Patient Authored by Joshua Givorshner Abstract Necrotizing fasciitis is a rapidly progressive and potentially deadly bacterial infection of the superficial fascia. The horrific and grossly debilitating nature of necrotizing fasciitis has led to an increased prominence of its reporting in mainstream media however the disease entity has not been historically well understood, classified or reported in medical literature. While capable of manifesting in numerous bodily locations following inoculation during trauma, the periorbital region is the most commonly involved facial site and presents unique challenges in treatment of the disease due to the unique anatomical and functional attributes of this area. This case repor

  Juniper Publishers-Open Access  Journal of Head Neck & Spine Surgery Unusual Case of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma with Intracranial Metastasis without Direct Invasion Authored by Balamurugan Rajendran Abstract Intracranial metastasis from Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC) is an extremely rare occurrence, although direct intracranial invasion is not infrequent in patients with NPC at a locally advanced stage. Only a few patients have been reported in detail in the English literature. Here, we report a case of a man with left high parietal dural metastasis of NPC, detected 2 years after Completed Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy (CCRT). Introduction Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC) is a rare malignancy in Western countries but considered endemic in certain places such as southern China and Southeast Asia [1] In Malaysia, NPC is the fifth (4.9%) most common cancer among Malaysians and the third (8.1%) most common cancer among males [2].