BACKGROUND It is evident that the rate of thyroid cancer is increasing throughout the world. One reason is increased detection of preclinical small cancers. However, it is not clear whether the increase in thyroid cancer rate is reducing the extent of thyroid surgeries. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the thyroid cancer rate and analyze recent changes in the extent of thyroid cancer s...

Fibrin degradation products (FDP) and D-dimer have been considered to be involved in many vascular diseases. In this study we aimed to explore the diagnostic implication of FDP and D-dimer in aortic dissection patients. 202 aortic dissection patients were collected as the case group, 150 patients with other cardiovascular diseases, including myocardial infarction (MI, n = 45), pulmonary infarct...

Surgical management of gastric cancer improves survival. However, for some time, surgeons have had diverse opinions about the extent of gastrectomy. Researchers have conducted many clinical studies, making slow but steady progress in determining the optimal surgical approach. The extent of lymph node dissection has been one of the major issues in surgery for gastric cancer. Many trials demonstr...

INTRODUCTION Anatomy is an important and intense mandatory course offered during the first year of medical school. Corpse dissection is very important in Anatomy teaching, and first year students will encounter, most likely for the first time, a dead human body during Anatomy labs. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the anxiety experienced by medical students with no previou...

Background Nontraumatic Stanford type A acute aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition; thus, the ability to make a precise diagnosis of nontraumatic Stanford type A acute aortic dissection is essential for the emergency physician. Several reports have shown that the mediastinal widening on a chest radiograph is useful for the diagnosis of nontraumatic Stanford type A acute aortic diss...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of selective neck dissection in patients with nodal metastases from head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. STUDY DESIGN Historical cohort study. SETTING Academic medical center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A chart review was performed on 156 subjects with clinically positive regional nodal metastases managed initially with surgery, including neck dissectio...

In a recent original article published in New England Journal of Medicine D’Cruz et al., reported about the value of elective versus therapeutic neck dissection in node-negative oral cancer [1]. In a prospective, randomized, controlled trial the effect on survival of elective neck dissection (ipsilateral neck dissection at the time of the primary surgery) versus therapeutic node dissection (wat...

Acute aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition requiring immediate assessment and therapy. Rarely, aortic dissection involves carotid arteries and manifest cerebral infarction. Here, we report a case of aortic dissection complicated with fatal cerebral infarction. A 83-year-old man, who suddenly suffered consciousness disturbance and right hemiparesis, was transferred to our hospital f...

A dissection for a sequentially n-divisible square is a partition of a square into a number of polygons, not necessarily squares, which can be rearranged to form two squares, three squares, and so on, up to n squares successively. A dissection is called type-k iff k more pieces are needed to increase the maximum number n of composed squares by one. Ozawa found a general dissection of type-3, wh...

OBJECTIVES To validate a health-related quality-of-life (QOL) instrument for patients following neck dissection and to identify the factors that affect QOL following neck dissection. DESIGN Cross-sectional validation study. SETTING The outpatient clinic of a tertiary care cancer center. PATIENTS Convenience sample of 54 patients previously treated for head and neck cancer who underwent a ...