Endocrine Abstracts

Introdcution: The number of patients who undergo transoral thyroidectomy has increased with the recent progress in thyroid surgery techniques and increasing number of patients concerned about cosmetic effects. This study aimed to compare transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy survey results with those of open thyroidectomy and to determine whether any differences existed between the two groups.Methods: One hundred patients who underwent thyroidectomy perform...

Intrathyroidal thymic carcinoma (ITTC) is a rare thyroid malignancy. Its histology resembles that of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the thyroid. However, ITTC shows a much more favorable prognosis than SCC. We analyzed the backgrounds and clinicopathological features of 10 patients who treated with ITTC in our medical center. Five patients was male, and another five was female. The average tumor size was 4mm, and it ranged from maximum 68mm to minimum 13mm. In pre-operative ...

Background: Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is associated with the highest mortality risk of any thyroid-arising tumor; however, there is currently no effective therapy for ATC, and multimodal therapy is associated with a relatively high mortality risk. Here, we investigated the effects of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy on patients with ATC treated with paclitaxel and intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).Methods: The medical records of 157 pati...