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Complications in Thyroid Surgery
Thyroid surgery is the surgery of parathyroid glands and recurrent laryngeal nerves. Surgeon is the most important prognostic factor for the complication rate. Possible complications of thyroid surgery are num...
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Open AccessRecurrent Laryngeal Nerve Liberations and Reconstructions: A Single Institution Experience
Recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) palsy rates vary from 0.5 to 10 %, even 20 % in thyroid cancer surgery. The aim of this paper was to present our experience with RLN liberations and reconstructions after variou...
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Potential clinical relevance of uPA and PAI-1 levels in node-negative, postmenopausal breast cancer patients bearing histological grade II tumors with ER/PR expression, during an early follow-up
We evaluated urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) prognostic value in postmenopausal, node-negative breast cancer patients bearing tumors with estrogen recep...
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Lactate dehydrogenase, Catalase, and Superoxide dismutase in Tumor Tissue of Breast Cancer Patients in Respect to Mammographic Findings
Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), marker of anaerobic metabolism, is associated with highly invasive and metastatic breast cancer. Novel studies show that increased anaerobic metabolism (LDH), as well as activity o...
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Open AccessRight thyroid hemiagenesis with adenoma and hyperplasia of parathyroid glands -case report
Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare anomaly, more commonly seen on the left side (ratio 4:1) and in females (ratio 3:1). The first to describe this anomaly was Handfield Jones in 1852.
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Open AccessUnilateral follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma with unique KRAS mutation in struma ovarii in bilateral ovarian teratoma: a rare case report
Struma ovarii (SO) is a rare form of ovarian mature teratoma in which thyroid tissue is the predominant element. Because of its rarity, the differential diagnosis between benign and malignant SO has not been c...
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Open AccessIntraductal papilloma of ectopic breast tissue in axillary lymph node of a patient with a previous intraductal papilloma of ipsilateral breast: a case report and review of the literature
The presence of ectopic breast tissue in axillary lymph nodes (ALN) is a benign condition that must be differentiated from primary or metastatic carcinoma. Here we report a patient who underwent excision of en...
