Schwannomas are rare neoplasms that originate from Schwann cells. We present a case report of schwannoma of the ansa cervicalis in a patient where preoperative imaging suggested thyroid pathology. A 25-year-old man presented to the otolaryngology department with a one-year history of an asymptomatic, anterior triangle neck swelling. Imaging and FNA suggested a cystic lesion of the thyroid. Howe...

BACKGROUND The purpose of using a whole-body scanning after the radioactive I-131 treatment is to screen functional residual or metastatic thyroid tissues. In whole-body scanning of some patients, false positive radioiodine I-131 uptakes may be seen in physiological uptake regions or atypical localizations. CASE REPORT A 54 year-old woman underwent total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid ca...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic thyroidectomy making the scar outside the neck area has a cosmetic appeal for patients. Based on an anterior chest wall approach combined with the gasless technique, we developed a novel method for gasless endoscopic thyroidectomy with a single incision. MATERIALS AND METHODS From March 2009 to November 2010, 48 patients with benign thyroid nodules underwent thyroidectom...

Introduction: Metastasis to the oral region from a malignant tumor elsewhere in the body is an uncommon but clinically important finding, because it may be the first indication that the patient has a distant primary tumor. Case report: A 65­year­old female presented with numb chin secondary to metastasis from thyroid follicular carcinoma is discussed. The lesion was located in the mandible on t...

A 65-year-old patient was referred to hospital with suspected myocardial infarction because of left-sided thoracic pain. A paresis of the left recurrent nerve of unknown etiology has been known for three years. Because of shock with anemia, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed. A diverticulum-like lesion in the proximal esophagus was found to be the source of the bleeding. A contrast ...

Background: Elastography is a method recently being used in the evaluation of thyroid nodules by comparing tissue elasticity. The aim this study was to determine diagnostic accuracy elastography differentiation between benign and malignant nodules, taking histopathology as gold standard. Methods: Total 50 patients with palpable nodule any size age 20-60 years either gender were included. perfor...

Thyroid incidentalomas are common findings during imaging studies including (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for cancer evaluation. Although the overall incidence of incidental thyroid uptake detected on PET imaging is low, clinical attention should be warranted owing to the high incidence of harboring primary thyroid malignancy. We ...

Thyroid cancer is one of the most rapidly increasing cancers in many countries. Although most thyroid cancers are differentiated cancers and easily treated with radioiodine (RI), a portion of differentiated and undifferentiated cancers is refractory not only to RI therapy, but also to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Thus, various alternative therapies have been tested in RI-refractory thyroid ca...

A 15-year-old woman was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and unilateral ectopic thyroid. Levothyroxine treatment was introduced; however, the patient was non-compliant and took the medication irregularly. When she presented to an endocrinologist at the age of 30, she had not been using levothyroxine for at least 6 months. Surprisingly, she was clinically and biochemically euthyroid. Due to decreas...

PURPOSE  Although papillary thyroid carcinoma metastases to the parapharyngeal space are rare, the high amount of fat tissue allows tumors to grow clinically undetectable until they invade most of the parapharyngeal space. We describe for the first time a combined endonasal and transcervical approach for a parapharyngeal metastasis from a papillary thyroid carcinoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS  A ...