{"id":647,"date":"2017-08-07T10:07:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T10:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/?p=647"},"modified":"2017-08-07T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T10:07:02","slug":"ent-cancer-referral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"ENT Cancer Referral"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Consider referral to ENT when the patient presents with any of the following signs or symptoms:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Hoarseness persisting for more than 3 weeks<\/li>\n<li>High dysphagia persisting for more than 3 weeks<\/li>\n<li>Unresolved neck masses for more than 3 weeks\n<ul>\n<li>(** Also refer to Monklands or Hairmyres Hospital for ultrasound and or FNA **)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Persistent unilateral unexplained throat pain<\/li>\n<li>Unilateral nasal obstruction particularly when associated with purlent discharge<\/li>\n<li>Unexplained ear pain particularly with any of the above<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Stridor should be referred as an emergency<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Consider referral to Maxillofacial when the patient presents with any of the following signs or symptoms:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ulceration of oral mucosa persisting for more than 3 weeks<\/li>\n<li>Oral swellings persisting for more than 3 weeks<\/li>\n<li>All red or red and white patches of the oral mucosa<\/li>\n<li>Unexplained tooth mobility not associated with peridontal disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Consider referral to Ophthalmology when the patient presents with any of the following signs or symptoms<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Orbital masses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Consider referral to General Medicine when the patient presents with any of the following signs or symptoms<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cranial neuropathies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>CCI Guidelines<\/h3>\n<p>The CCI Referral Guidelines can be found at ENT Referral Pathways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider referral to ENT when the patient presents with any of the following signs or symptoms: Hoarseness persisting for more than 3 weeks High dysphagia persisting for more than 3 weeks Unresolved neck masses for more than 3 weeks (** Also refer to Monklands or Hairmyres Hospital for ultrasound and or FNA **) Persistent unilateral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25,11],"tags":[7,69,109,131,47,21,92],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-referrals","category-cancer","category-gp-referrals","tag-cancer","tag-dysphagia","tag-ear","tag-ent","tag-hoarseness","tag-oral","tag-stridor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslref.scot.nhs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}