OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the factors related to the patient and the disease have any effect on the success of ablation therapy in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer who have received I-131 ablation therapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS All the patients with differentiated thyroid cancer were referred for I-131 ablation therapy after thyroidectomy between July 2007 and September 2009....

metastasize to the parotid lymph nodes2. Extremely rare neoplasms in the head-and-neck region that have been reported to metastasize to the parotid gland include malignant hemangiopericytoma, atypical fibroxanthoma, Merkel cell carcinoma, epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, and chondrosarcoma3–5. Parotid gland metastases from carcinomas in sites not in the head and neck are rare. Among the histol...

Medical reports of 1293 patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the head and neck were retrospectively evaluated. The patients were classified according to their age, sex, primary tumour localization and tumoral stage. There were 1181 males (91.3 per cent) and 112 females (8.7 per cent), with a male to female ratio of 10.5:1. The peak incidences for all primary tumour localizations were ...

AIM OF THE STUDY Despite advances in surgical and radiotherapy techniques, the presence of lymph node metastasis drastically decreases the survival rate of patients with primary oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Thus the accurate pathological staging of the neck is critical. Desmoglein 3 (DSG3), a desmosomal cadherin protein is said to be highly expressed in head and neck squamous cell carci...

c-Kit mutations are frequently detected in mucosal melanomas, but their clinical significance in metastatic oral mucosal melanomas (OMM) remains unclear. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical and pathological features of metastatic OMMs with c-Kit mutations and the efficiency of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib in treating metastatic OMMs. We found thatresidual pr...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to explore the diagnostic value of sonoelastography for the differentiation between benign and malignant superficial lymph nodes of the neck. In this respect the utility of an original scoring system was explored. MATERIAL AND METHOD Over a period of 30 months the patients examined routinely for the assessment of superficial lymph nodes of the neck were reco...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to present our focus on the lymph node status in the central compartment and evaluate the relevant factors and disease recurrence. METHODS Between January 2004 and December 2009, 1040 patients were diagnosed with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and underwent surgery. RESULTS The number of metastatic lymph nodes was a significant predictor for recur...

BACKGROUND Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) diagnoses and stages mediastinal lymph node pathology. This retrospective study determined the relationship between EBUS-TBNA utility and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) stage, lymph node size, and positron emission tomography (PET) standard uptake values (SUV), and the utility of neck ultrasound in bulky...

Introduction: Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the predominant neoplastic tumor that occurs in the oral cavity. SCC arising from the maxillary gingiva, hard palate and maxillary alveolus is relatively rare. Since soft tissue barrier is thin, the diagnosis of cancer in these regions is usually ulcerative and invasive to the underlying bone already in the early stages of the disease. The aim of t...

Due to the damaged anatomical structure and a large amount of fibrous and scar tissues in the surgical field, reoperation of papillary thyroid carcinoma is difficult. This study introduces a new method of locating metastatic lymph nodes during reoperation and evaluates the effectiveness and safety of the preoperative ultrasound-guided carbon nanoparticles (CNs) localization. This retrospective ...