Edited by Giovanni Conzo, Renato Patrone and Claudio Gambardella
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):34
Volume 18 Supplement 1
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Edited by Giovanni Conzo, Renato Patrone and Claudio Gambardella
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):34
The therapy for differentiated thyroid tumors is currently built upon two cornerstones: the stage of the disease and the new guidelines of the American Thyroid Association, jointly converging to lobohystmectom...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):127
About 10% of cervico-mediastinal goiter need to associate cervicotomy with a total or partial sternotomy to allow a safe removal of the goiter.
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):20
Thymic epithelial tumours (TETs) are characterized by a wide variety of biological behaviors. Radical resection and stage are strong prognostic factors. Aim of this study is to review our Single Center Experie...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):114
Early Hypocalcemia is the most frequent complication after thyroid surgery. Several studies have tried to identify factors (patient caracteristics or surgical technique variations) affecting hypocalcemia follo...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):25
Although thyroidectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures performed worldwide, some permanent complications, despite the considerably reducing incidence, may affect dramatically the patients quality...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):116
Currently, there is no strong evidence on the effectiveness and safety of pharmacological antithrombotic prophylaxis in thyroid surgery. The aim of this study was to establish whether the prophylactic use of l...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):82
Prophylactic central neck lymph-nodes dissection is still a topic of major debate in Literature. There is a lack of randomized controlled trials proving advantages in its application in terms of overall surviv...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):110
TIR3B thyroid nodules are considered to be at risk of malignancy (15–30%) but guidelines recommend conservative surgery with lobectomy with primary diagnostic porpoise. Risk stratification mainly based on ultr...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):22
Robotic thyroidectomy by transaxillary approach (RATS) is regarded as a feasible and safe alternative procedure in selected patients with benign disease or thyroid cancer of low risk, facilitating thyroidectom...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):19
Papillary thyroid carcinoma is a slow-growing cancer with a generally good prognosis that sometimes have an aggressive behaviour. Metastases to neck lymph nodes is the first step of the diffusion. The central ...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):112
Thyroid diseases are frequent in patients with end-stage renal disease, but data on renal transplant recipients are conflicting. This study evaluated the incidence of thyroid disease and cancer in a population...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):80
Primary hyperparathyroidism is a common endocrine disorder. Hypercalcemia with normal PTH levels is very unusual and can lead to diagnostic difficulties. There are very few very few studies in the literature a...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):124
laparoscopic adrenalectomy has become the standard treatment for adrenal lesions. The better clinical outcoms of laparoscopic technique are valid for treatment of small benign masses (< 5–6 cm), instead there ...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):128
Primary aldosteronism (PA) is associated with an increased prevalence of anxiety and depression. Subnormal quality of life (QoL) scores in PA patients may be improved after surgical treatment. The aim of the s...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):105
The gold standard approach for surgical treatment of benign and malignant adrenal lesion is considered the laparoscopic one, due to a lot of advantages compared to open approach. The rapid propagation of this ...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):123
Breast cancer is the most frequent neoplasm in women. Axillary lymph nodes dissection represents the treatment of choice in locally advanced breast cancer for prognostic and curative purposes. Seroma formation...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):125
The combination of breast conserving surgery (BCS) with plastic surgery techniques has provided a useful surgical tool matching the radicality of the oncological excision with the preservation of breast cosmes...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):21
Islet transplantation has progressively become a safe alternative to pancreas transplantation for the treatment of type 1 diabetes. However, the long-term results of islet transplantation could be significantl...
Citation: BMC Surgery 2019 18(Suppl 1):126
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