Marina Michalaki, Panagiotis Bountouris, Nikolaos D Roupas, Anastasia Theodoropoulou, Niki Agalianou, Theodoros Alexandrides, Kostas Markou
BACKGROUND: The current trend in the management of low risk differentiated thyroid carcinoma is to follow less aggressive strategies. Objective: To assess the long-term morbidity and mortality outcomes of low-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients undergoing minimal intervention. DESIGN: We retrospectively analyzed 137 patients with low-risk PTC …
Elias E. Mazokopakis, Anastasios A. Tzortzinis, Elpida I. Dalieraki-Ott, Athanasios N. Tsartsalis, Periklis K. Syros, Christos M. Karefilakis, Maria G. Papadomanolaki, Ioannis K. Starakis
OBJECTIVE: The association between Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) remains controversial in medical bibliography. The main objective of our study was to determine the prevalence of PTC and HT coexistence in histopathologic material of thyroidectomized patients. DESIGN: In a retrospective study …
Massimo Rizzo, Alessandro Sindoni, Raffaele Talamo Rossi, Orsola Bonaffini, Stefania Panetta, Claudio Scisca, Giuseppe Altavilla, Lucia Denaro, Antonio Rosanò, Giovanna Saraceno, Francesco Trimarchi, Salvatore Benvenga
Carlo Gobitti, Alessandro Sindoni, Chiara Bampo, Tanja Baresic, Giorgio Giorda, Lara Alessandrini, Vincenzo Canzonieri, Giovanni Franchin, Eugenio Borsatti
Struma ovarii (SO), a rare tumor containing at least 50% of thyroid tissue, represents approximately 5% of all ovarian teratomas; its malignant transformation rate is reported to occur in up to 10% of cases and metastases occur in about 5-6% of them. We describe a 36-year old woman who underwent laparoscopic left annessectomy two years earlier because of an ovarian cyst. Follow-up imaging revealed a right adnexal mass, ascitis and peritoneal nodes that were diagnosed as comprising a malignant …