AIM To evaluate the surgical strategies and functional outcomes of intramedullary cervicomedullary ependymoma (ICE). MATERIAL AND METHODS The authors retrospectively reviewed the clinical and imaging data of 28 ICE patients who underwent surgical resection, including 11 males and 17 females and the average age was 37.9 years (range:11-69 years). The modified McCormick grading system (mMG) was...

Here we report three cases of hyperthyroid Graves' disease that occurred after partial thyroidectomy for papillary carcinoma. In Case 1, the patient first developed hyperthyroidism 2 years after resection of left thyroid lobe, was treated for 2 years with antithyroid drug which was then discontinued, and relapsed with periodic paralysis after 8 years of remission. In Case 2, a hyperfunctioning ...

This paper describes an attempt to measure in vitro iron uptake from serum by human thyroid slices and to relate the uptake to tissue iron stores, folic acid status, and tissue viability. It is an extension of work previously reported (Buchanan, 1969). Thyroids were obtained from patients undergoing partial thyroidectomy for colloid goitre and serum from clinically normal healthy adults. The ha...

AIM The first cases treated with Minimally Invasive videoassisted thyroidectomy (MIVAT) were characterized by inclusion and exclusion criteria that are changing with the experience. MATERIALS AND METHODS We have analyzed the patients treated from july 2005 to december 2010 with MIVAT All these cases were treated in accord with Miccoli's technique with a minicervicotomy of 1.5-2 cm above the s...

In the past three decades, the thyroid cancer incidence has surged globally. Herein, the Taiwan National Health Insurance database was used to identify thyroid cancer patients and to estimate the prevalence and incidence of thyroid cancer during 1997-2012. The Taiwan Cancer Registry and the National Death Registry databases were crosslinked to obtain information on the histological subtypes and...

The authors described a case of rare histological type of primary thyroid tumour: angiosarcoma. We report a case of 37 years old female who presented with the mass in the anterior of the neck that had been rapidly growing for several months. Scintigraphy showed a cold nodule in the left lobe of the thyroid. The patient underwent subtotal thyroidectomy. The cut surface showed a bulging solid gre...

UNLABELLED Although 131I-iodine (RAI) therapy is a mainstay in the treatment of metastatic thyroid cancer, there is controversy regarding the maximum activity that can safely be administered without dosimetric determination of the maximum tolerable activity (MTA). At most institutions, a fixed empiric dosing strategy is often used, with administered activities ranging from 5.55 to 9.25 GBq (150...

Ectopic thyroid can be encountered anywhere between the base of tongue and pretracheal region. The most common form is euthyroid neck mass. Herein, we aimed to present the findings of a female case with ectopic thyroid tissue localized in the left submandibular region. A 44-year-old female patient, who underwent bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy four years ago with the diagnosis of multinodular ...

The author attempted to realize the accuracy and limitation of the operative biopsy for the diagnosis of Hashimoto's disease. In the 11 cases of total—partial thyroidectomy , there was no essential difference between the histological types of both thyroid lobes. The diagnosis of Hashimoto's disease was obtained in 81 % by single biopsy (a tiny specimen from one lobe through a small incision). T...