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Safety and feasibility of single-port surgery for posterior retroperitoneal adrenalectomy using the da Vinci SP robotic system: a retrospective cohort study
This study demonstrates our experience of single-port robotic posterior retroperitoneal adrenalectomy (RPRA) using the da Vinci SP robot system and evaluates its technical feasibility and surgical outcomes.
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Open AccessShort-term outcome of adrenal radiofrequency ablation of adrenal cysts: a single-center experience
Percutaneous thermal ablation is a minimally invasive treatment for liver, kidney, lung, bone, and thyroid tumors. This treatment also has been used to treat adrenal tumors in patients, but there is no evidenc...
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The association between the type of anesthesia and hemodynamic instability during pheochromocytoma surgery: a retrospective cohort study
Pheochromocytoma often carries a risk for perioperative hemodynamic instability (HDI). The aim of this study is to evaluate the risk factors of intraoperative HDI during minimally invasive posterior retroperit...
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Safety and feasibility of reduced-port site surgery for robotic posterior retroperitoneal adrenalectomy
Minimally invasive surgery, such as laparoscopic adrenalectomy and robotic adrenalectomy, has become a treatment of choice for benign adrenal tumors. Efforts are ongoing to minimize the invasiveness of the pro...
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Usefulness of a 3D-Printed Thyroid Cancer Phantom for Clinician to Patient Communication
Thyroid glands and surrounding structures are very complex, and this complexity can pose a challenge for clinicians when explaining and communicating to the patient the details of a proposed surgery for thyroi...
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Risk of Malignancy According to the Sub-classification of Atypia of Undetermined Significance and Suspicious Follicular Neoplasm Categories in Thyroid Core Needle Biopsies
The objective of this study was to evaluate the risk of malignancy (ROM) associated with atypia of undetermined significance (AUS) and suspicious follicular neoplasm (SFN) core needle biopsy (CNB) categories a...
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Prognostic Impact of Further Treatments on Distant Metastasis in Patients with Minimally Invasive Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma: Verification Using Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting
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Prognostic Impact of Further Treatments on Distant Metastasis in Patients With Minimally Invasive Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma: Verification Using Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting
The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic impact of further treatments in minimally invasive follicular thyroid carcinoma (MIFTC) patients.
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The role of core-needle biopsy in the diagnosis of thyroid malignancy in 4580 patients with 4746 thyroid nodules: a systematic review and meta-analysis
To evaluate the effectiveness and complications of core-needle biopsy (CNB) compared to fine-needle aspiration (FNA) for diagnosing thyroid malignancy. The Ovid-MEDLINE and EMBASE databases were searched for s...
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Prognostic Value of the Number of Retrieved Lymph Nodes in Pathological Nx or N0 Classical Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
This study evaluated the clinical implications of the number of retrieved central lymph nodes (LN) for the recurrence and recurrence-free survival (RFS) outcomes in patients with pathological Nx (pNx) or N0 cl...
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Dynamic risk stratification for medullary thyroid cancer according to the response to initial therapy
Detecting persistent/recurrent disease of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is important. The tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging system is useful for predicting disease-specific mortality, but is a static sys...
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Importance of the intraoperative appearance of preserved parathyroid glands after total thyroidectomy
Hypocalcemia after total thyroidectomy is a concern for every endocrine surgeon. We conducted this study to establish the value of the macroscopic appearance of preserved parathyroid glands after thyroidectomy...
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Surgical Management of Familial Papillary Thyroid Microcarcinoma: A Single Institution Study of 94 Cases
Familial papillary thyroid carcinoma (familial PTC) is well known to present with aggressiveness; however, the characteristics and the prognostic outcomes of familial papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (familial...
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Risk Factors of Hypoparathyroidism Following Total Thyroidectomy for Thyroid Cancer
The risk factors responsible for hypoparathyroidism after total thyroidectomy have not been completely defined. The present study evaluated one surgeon’s personal experience of postoperative hypoparathyroidism...
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Prognostic implication of thyroglobulin and quantified whole body scan after initial radioiodine therapy on early prediction of ablation and clinical response for the patients with differentiated thyroid cancer
To investigate predictors for successful ablation and disease-free status after high-dose radioiodine therapy in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.
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Endoscopic thyroidectomy via bilateral axillo-breast approach (BABA): review of 512 cases in a single institute
Various techniques for endoscopic thyroidectomy have been introduced in the past decade, and the cosmetic superiority of these techniques has been universally acknowledged. We developed the endoscopic thyroide...
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Social support and depressive mood 1 year after diagnosis of breast cancer compared with the general female population: a prospective cohort study
Social support may influence the impact of stressful life events on breast cancer patients’ psychological state. However, the precise status of depressive mood in breast cancer during the first year after diag...
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Open AccessThe effect of external beam radiotherapy volume on locoregional control in patients with locoregionally advanced or recurrent nonanaplastic thyroid cancer
We evaluated outcomes of patients treated with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for locoregionally advanced or recurrent nonanaplastic thyroid cancer and analyzed the effect of EBRT volume on locoregional con...
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Molecular Biology of Thyroid Cancer
There have been significant advances in our understanding of the molecular biology of thyroid cancer, and many of these studies have important clinical ramifications or applications to optimizing patient manag...
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A randomized phase-III trial of docetaxel/capecitabine versus doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide as primary chemotherapy for patients with stage II/III breast cancer
We aimed to determine the efficacies of a non-anthracycline-containing regimen, docetaxel/capecitabine (TX), in comparison with an anthracycline-containing regimen, doxorubicin/cyclophosphamide (AC), as primar...
