Departments

Medical Departments

Head-Neck and Thoracic Surgery

Mission

Diagnoses and development

Benignant and malignant tumors :
- thyroid
- parotid and salivary gland
- parathyroid
- larynx
- pharynx
- tongue and buccal cavity (cheek, lip, palate, gingival)
- maxillary and ethmoid sinus
- cyst (branchial, thyroglossal, dermoid)
- ganglia and adenopathy
- melanoma, cervicofacial area and scalp, pinna (collaboration with plastic surgery)
- endoscopy, biopsy under echography (Dr Moerman, Dr Engelhom, Dr Leurquin, Dr Starck)
- schwannoma, glomus tumors

 

Surgical treatment

Surgical treatment associated with multidisciplinary oncological treatments of all the pathologies mentioned above combined with the development of up to date techniques such as the technique of the sentinel ganglia, the monitoring of the facial nerve, the CO2 laser, the cold laser against mucositis and osteoradionecrosis.

 

Thoracic surgery (in collaboration with the Centre Hospitalier Saint-Pierre):

- treatment of bronchial cancer
- treatment of pulmonary metastasis
- thoracoscopy for diagnosis and for pleural effusion treatment

 

ORL Unit integrated to the oncological cervicofacial surgery, to the medical oncology, to the radiotherapy :

Diagnoses and development
- Medical ORL pathologies
- Surgery of the nose and of the sinuses, otological surgery
- Carboplatin ototoxicity
- Swallowing disorders
- Surgery of the larynx with a CO2 laser
- Post-laryngectomy logopedic rehabilitation
- Surgery of the amigdala with ultrasound (harmonic scalpel)
- Snoring surgery
Surgical treatment of the pathologies mentioned above.

 

Unit of swallowing :

Multidisciplinary unit for diagnostic procedures and treatment of swallowing disorders (endoscopy, magnetic resonance, videofluoroscopy...) with Professor Lemort radiologist, the logopedist, the nutritionists.

 

Phototherapy

Treatment by laser and injection of a photoactive and tumoricidal agent

 

Thermotherapy by radio frequency.

 

New technologies and treatments : click here
 

Person in charge : Pr Andry Guy

Checking of this page : 08/2009