BACKGROUND Inadvertent removal of the parathyroid glands during elective thyroid surgery occurs more frequently in certain high-risk patients and can lead to symptomatic hypocalcaemia. METHODS A case-control study was carried out at a tertiary referral, academic medical centre between May 1994 and August 2001. Five hundred and thirteen patients underwent thyroid resection. Pathology reports w...

1 Patients with low-grade gliomas most commonly present with seizures.6 These lesions are rarely discovered as incidental findings during brain imaging for unrelated complaints or research studies.9,11,19,29,32 It is not clear how to best manage incidental asymptomatic LGGs, although some believe that there is no benefit to early resection.2,18,23 However, a recent study has suggested that the ...

OBJECTIVE A retrospective review of appendectomies performed at the University of Kansas Medical Center between January 1, 1989, and January 1, 1994, was conducted. In addition, the literature evaluating effectiveness of incidental appendectomy in preventing future operation and morbidity from appendicitis was reviewed. The results of the two reviews were analyzed to formulate guidelines for th...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used to study the relationship between intentional and incidental recognition of famous faces. Intentional and incidental recognition were operationally defined as repeated presentations of targets and nontargets within a modified Sternberg task. These repetitions elicited temporally and topographically distinct ERP modulations. A repetition effect around 30...

conclusions small size, smooth lesion border and homogeneity favor benign nature of the incidental splenic lesions, while restricted diffusion might be a feature of malignancy. follow-up imaging might be helpful in a subset of patients to discriminate benign and malignant incidental splenic lesions. methods this retrospective study was performed in a tertiary referral center. data of patients w...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to report the morbidity, mortality, and angiographic results of coiling of asymptomatic incidental aneurysms and compare the characteristics of these aneurysms with other asymptomatic incidental aneurysms that were not treated. PATIENTS AND METHODS During a 10-year period, 97 patients without previous subarachnoid hemorrhage, presented with ...

INTRODUCTION A little deeper resection was done during transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) for benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) to fill the disparities of reported prevalence rates between latent and incidental prostate cancer, as well as in order not to overlook clinically significant incidental cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS We performed TURP in 995 patients who were diagnosed to ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence and frequency of follow-up instructions for incidental findings on computed tomography (CT) scanning of the abdomen and pelvis in trauma patients. METHODS We performed a retrospective chart review of all adult patients triaged to the trauma service at a Level I trauma center between July 1, 2003 and June 30, 2004. Included patients were 16 years of age and...

Items located within an array were presented to alcoholic Korsakoff and nonalcoholic mixed-etiology amnesics and to alcoholic and normal controls. Recognition memory for the locations of items was tested after incidental and intentional encoding. When equated on item recognition, neither Korsakoff amnesics nor alcoholic controls benefited from intentional, relative to incidental, encoding instr...

Introduction Cancer wounds need regular dressing; else they develop infection, foul odor, and in extreme cases, maggots. Patients resist dressing due to the severe incidental pain during dressing. Intranasal ketamine was tried as an analgesic to reduce this incidental pain. Materials and Methods Twenty patients with wounds requiring regular dressing were selected; these patients had a basal p...