The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical and pathologic stages of patients diagnosed with breast cancer.

Aim: This study aimed to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the clinical and pathological stages of patients diagnosed with breast cancer.

Method: In this retrospective study, a total of 298 male and female patients over the age of 18 who were diagnosed with breast cancer and who were continuing surgical and oncologic treatment were included.

Results: Of the 298 patients diagnosed with breast cancer, 186 (62.

A Novel Technique for the Management of Persistent Biliary Fistulas Developing After Liver Hydatid Cyst Surgeries: Drain Clamping Technique.

Background: External biliary fistula, where the residual cyst is associated with the biliary tree, is one of the most common complications after liver hydatid cyst surgery. Surgical procedures become a consideration for patients in whom the biliary fistula persists despite all endoscopic procedures. However, reoperation for biliary fistula after hydatid cyst surgery leads to additional complications and increases morbidity and mortality.

Analysis of intraoperative laboratory measurements and imaging techniques such as Tc-99 m-MIBI SPECT/CT, 18F-fluorocholine PET/CT and ultrasound in patients operated with prediagnosis of parathyroid adenoma.

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine accurately the localization of the adenoma with the imaging methods in the patients, who are planned to be operated on with prediagnosis of parathyroid adenoma.

Method: In our study, the files of the patients who were considered to have parathyroid adenoma and underwent operation between 2012 and 2020 with the methods such as Tc99m-MIBI SPECT/CT, 18F-fluorocholine PET/CT, and ultrasound, and biochemical examinations were examined retrospectively.

Results: In this study, 31 (18.

Assessment of preoperative thyroglobulin levels in papillary thyroid cancer.

Background: The papillary thyroid cancers (PTCs) are the most common cancer of endocrine cancers. The primary treatment is surgery, and the prognosis is mostly well. In spite of many methods for the early diagnosis, the simpler and noninvasive methods are being sought.

Assessment of the relationship between neutrophil lymphocyte ratio and prognostic factors in non-metastatic colorectal cancer.

Objective: Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio still has a limited clinical use due to many non-cancer factors affecting neutrophils or lymphocytes in the present time. We aimed to evaluate the association between preoperative neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and poor prognostic factors after curative elective colorectal surgery.

Material And Methods: This clinical retrospective study was initiated with 95 patients, who had a curative surgical resection between 2003 and 2013.

Increased UGT1A3 and UGT1A7 expression is associated with pancreatic cancer.

UGT1A play important roles in the glucuronidation of a variety of endogenous and exogenous compounds. UGT1A isoforms are expressed tissue specifically. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between UGT1A3 and UGT1A7 mRNA expression and pancreatic cancer.

Long-term results in the treatment of fistula-in-ano with fibrin glue: a prospective study.

Purpose: This prospective study was done to analyze the efficacy of commercial fibrin glue application in the healing of patients with fistulas-in-ano from a long-term (mean 4.5 years) research period.

Methods: This clinical trial of forty-six patients was performed during the period from January 2004 to February 2005.

Retroperitoneoscopic drainage of complicated psoas abscesses in patients with tuberculous lumbar spondylitis.

Purpose: Nowadays, endoscopic techniques are widely used in surgical procedures. Retroperitoneoscopy has been an extremely valuable tool for a wide variety of urologic disorders, whereas, it has limited use in orthopedic procedures.

Methods: We performed retroperitoneoscopic drainage (in combination with medical treatment) of complicated psoas abscess on 12 patients with tuberculous spondylitis.

The efficacy of Ankaferd Blood Stopper for the management of bleeding following total thyroidectomy.

Purpose: Postoperative hematoma remains an uncommon but potentially life-threaten complication of thyroid surgery. The aim of this study is to assess the efficacy of Ankaferd Blood Stopper (ABS) in comparison to hemostasis by conventional technique (HCT) for the controlling of oozing-type bleeding following total thyroidectomy.

Methods: We randomized 61 patients with benign euthyroid multinodular goiter who underwent total thyroidectomy subject to one of the two different hemostasis techniques.

The use of fibrin glue in the treatment of fistula-in-ano: a prospective study.

Purpose: This prospective study was done to analyze the efficacy of commercial fibrin glue application in the healing of patients with fistulas-in-ano.

Methods: This clinical trial of 36 patients was performed during the period from November 2003 to May 2004. Thirty men and six women were treated for a fistula-in-ano with commercial fibrin glue application.

A prospective randomised study of local anaesthetic injection after multiple rubber band ligation of haemorrhoids.

One hundred and forty-two patients with second and third degree internal haemorrhoids were randomised to rubber band ligation only (n = 72) or rubber band ligation + local anaesthetic injection (n = 70). Pain was assessed by the patients at intervals of 6 hours and 1, 2, 3 and 4 days after banding. Other symptoms, complications, analgesic requirements and patient satisfaction were also recorded for 10 days following the treatment.

Adrenal cyst.

Adrenal cysts are rarely seen lesions. Most are asymptomatic and less than 10 cm. Adrenal cysts, most of which are diagnosed incidentally, can be diagnosed more by wide usage of diagnostic imaging methods.