Analysis of the successful clinical treatment of 140 patients with parathyroid adenoma: A retrospective study.

Background: Parathyroid adenoma (PA) sometimes recurs after surgery, how to improve the surgical success rate of PA is the key to the treatment of this disease.

Aim: To investigate the clinical features, diagnosis, and surgical treatment of patients with PA.

Methods: Patients who were pathologically confirmed with PA and had undergone surgery for the first time between January 2010 and December 2017 at the Beijing Shijitan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University were included in the study.

The characteristics of clinical changes in primary hyperparathyroidism in Chinese patients.

In Western countries, the presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) changed from a symptomatic to an asymptomatic disease after the 1970s, whereas in China, only one study has evaluated the changing clinical characteristics and biochemical profiles of PHPT patients. The aim of this study was to explore changes in the clinical characteristics of PHPT in Chinese patients. Overall, 140 consecutive patients with PHPT were studied between January 1, 2010 and June 30, 2016.

[Management of thyroid carcinoma with metastases in the upper mediastinum and axillary area].

Objective: To investigate the clinical characteristics and management of thyroid carcinoma with the upper mediastinal and axillary metastasis.

Methods: Six cases of thyroid carcinomas with metastases to mediastinum and axillary, in addition to the neck, undergoing surgeries from 2006 to 2011 were reviewed. Five cases was papillary carcinoma and one was follicular carcinoma.

[Surgical treatment of hyperparathyroidism due to parathyroid tumors].

Objective: To study the clinical features of hyperparathyroidism due to parathyroid tumors, and evaluate the efficiency of surgical management.

Methods: Twenty-two patients with hyperparathyroidism resulted from parathyroid tumors were reviewed. The age ranged from 32 to 79 years, 9 males and 13 females.

[Surgical treatment of recurrent parathyroid carcinoma with invasion of the upper aerodigestive tract].

Objective: To evaluate the factors contributed to the recurrence of parathyroid carcinoma with the invasion of the upper aerodigestive tract and the outcomes of reoperation.

Methods: Six cases reviewed, in which the age ranged from 32 to 79 years old. The initial diagnoses and surgical procedures, the sites and surgical treatment of the recurrent disease, and the chemical markers, such as parathyroid hormone (PTH) and serum calcium, were retrospectively studied.

[Surgical management of tumor in the conjunctive area among neck, thorax and axilla].

Objective: To study the surgical management of tumors in the conjunctive area among the neck, thorax and axilla and its efficacy.

Methods: From Oct. 1999 to March 2006, eleven cases with benign tumors in the area between the neck, thorax and axilla were collected and analysed.

[Cochlear implantation in patients with otitis media-related diseases].

Objective: To evaluate the indications, surgical techniques and complications of cochlear implantation in patients with otitis media-related diseases.

Methods: Retrospective study of the data collected from patients receiving cochlear implantation. Totally 866 cases of cochlear implantation were performed in Peking Union Medical College Hospital from May 1995 to February 2006.

[Diagnosis and treatment of Madelung's disease].

Objective: To review the characteristics of Madelung's disease which is rare and unfamiliar to clinicians and to find the method of diagnosis and treatment.

Methods: Detailed clinical data of 7 patients with Madelung's disease were reviewed and analyzed. And related literatures were discussed together.

[Complications of tracheoesophageal puncture for Blom-Singer voice restoration after total laryngectomy].

Objective: To investigate causes and treatment of complications of tracheoesophageal puncture for Blom-Singer voice restoration after total laryngectomy.

Methods: From 1986 to 2004, one hundred and fifty one cases with Blom-Singer technique after total laryngectomy for voice restoration were retrospectively analyzed.

Results: All cases were followed up from 6 months to 15 years.

[Forty-three tracheal stricture with Ni-Ti shape memory alloy stent].

Objective: To evaluate the application of Ni-Ti shape memory alloy stent for treating tracheal stricture, including its indications and complications.

Methods: Forty-three patients clinical data were analyzed, among them, 15 suffered from tumor; 7 trauma; 4 granulation; 1 Wegener's granuloma, 2 rhinoscleroma, 1 without clear diagnosis; 7 were relapsing polychondritis; 1 were respiratory amyloidosis; 4 were tracheobronchial tuberculosis, 5 were tracheobronchomalacia. The stricture degree: Level I: 15 patients, Level II:24 patients, Level III:4 patients.

[Surgical management of metastatic disease in the conjunctive area between neck and thorax].

Objective: To study the surgical management of metastatic disease in the conjunctive area between the neck and thorax and its efficacy.

Methods: Fourteen cases with metastatic node disease in the area between neck and thorax were collected and analysed. Eleven tumors were from the thyroid cancer, and the other three were from the hypopharyngeal cancer, esophagual cancer and malignant pheochromocytoma, respectively.