Does routine preoperative imaging of parotid tumours affect surgical management decision making?
Preoperative imaging should not be routinely ordered to investigate patients with parotid tumours. Patients with either deep parotid tumours or clinically suspicious tumours of malignancy would benefit from a preoperative radiologic investigation. The additional information from imaging may affect the surgical management decision.
Because PTEN regulates signaling through the growth-promoting phosphoinositide 3-kinase/AKT pathway, our findings suggest that miR-21 may be a suitable molecular target for therapies aimed specifically at reducing VS growth.