Differentiated thyroid cancer in navarra (Spain): historic cohort results (1987-2003).

Introduction. Navarra has the highest incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer in Spain. The aim of this study was to review its management carried out by the Navarra's multidisciplinary Thyroid Disease Unit, from 1987 to 2003.

[Morphology of severe mycoses. Role of the pathologist in the diagnosis].

Mycoses are diseases caused by fungi. To be regarded as pathogenic, a fungus has to be able to complete a number of steps in order to initiate infection. Although culture remains the gold standard to diagnose the causative agent, presumptive identification of these fungi in histologic slides is of great value because invasion is only demonstrated in tissue sections.

[The impact of technology in Pathological Anatomy and the contribution of this speciality to technological development].

It is obvious that technology has contributed throughout history to the development of the different sciences. In this article, we define the concept of Pathology as a medical speciality, and we explain its influence in a hospital, considering very different fields such as education, research, quality control, hospital information, and patient care. This speciality has undergone a considerable evolution, to which technological innovation has undoubtedly contributed.

Pulmonary hemorrhage and antiglomerular basement membrane antibody-mediated glomerulonephritis after exposure to smoked cocaine (crack): a case report and review of the literature.

A case of Goodpasture's syndrome with a negative immunofluorescence examination of the lung biopsy in a 32-year-old man is described. The patient was a 40 cigarettes per day smoker, who had been smoking cocaine (crack) up to 3 weeks before hospital admission. He developed a diffuse alveolar hemorrhage with extremely acute respiratory distress, followed by renal failure with anuria.

Metastatic neuroendocrine tumors to the thyroid gland mimicking medullary carcinoma: a pathologic and immunohistochemical study of six cases.

The clinical, pathological, and immunohistochemical features of six cases of metastatic neuroendocrine and carcinoid tumors to the thyroid simulating medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) are described. The patients were women between the ages of 24 and 70 years who, without symptoms or significant past medical histories, presented with either a single mass or multiple thyroid nodules. The primary source of the tumor was only discovered on follow-up.