Publications by authors named "Burak Akovalı"
Objective: Our aim in this study was to determine the relationship between tumor mean standard uptake value (SUVmax) value in preoperative PET/computed tomography (CT) and prognostic risk groups in cases with endometrial cancer.
Methods: A total of 368 patients operated on for endometrial cancer were evaluated in the study. The SUVmax value of endometrial primary tumor of the patients screened within 30 days of operation, was compared with prognostic parameters and risk groups.
Thyroid gland blood supply is rich but it is not an open area for metastasis. Only 1%-3% of the neoplastic lesions seen in the thyroid are of extrathyroidal origin. Thyroid, lung, bone, lymph node metastasis were detected at the time of diagnosis in a 78-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The goal of the current study was to investigate the impact of different computational models on I dosimetry prior to hyperthyroidism therapy. It was also aimed to highlight an accurate and cost-effective method for routine dosimetry of graves and toxic adenoma patients.
Methods: A cohort of 45 patients was recruited in the current study with Graves (n = 30) and Toxic Adenoma (n = 15) diseases.
Introduction: Ceritinib is a selective second-generation ALK inhibitor that is highly sensitive to echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4-anaplastic lymphoma kinase (EML4-ALK) molecule.
Case Report: In this paper, we report a 68-year-old female that was diagnosed with stage 4 ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). She was treated with crizotinib first-line, cisplatin and gemcitabine as second-line.
Background: Nivolumab is an immune checkpoint inhibitor that selectively blocks the programmed cell death-1. Nowadays, immune checkpoint inhibitors such as nivolumab are used in the treatment of many different types of cancer. Treatment responses of these agents may be different from standard chemotherapy, and hyperprogression is a new entity that occurs with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Yttrium-90 (Y) microsphere therapy has been increasingly used to treat hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and liver metastasis of colorectal cancer (mCRC). This study aims to compare two different criterias used for therapy response evaluation following Y therapy within the same group of patients.
Patients And Methods: A total of 21 patients with HCC and 19 patients with mCRC were included in this study, with 36 and 42 liver lesions, respectively.
Purpose: Ga-PSMA-11 is a novel PET tracer suggested to be used for imaging of advanced prostate cancer. In this study, we aimed to present a detailed biodistribution of Ga-PSMA-11, including physiological and benign variants of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) imaging.
Materials And Methods: We carried out a retrospective analysis of 40 patients who underwent PSMA PET/computed tomography (CT) imaging and who had no evidence of residual or metastatic disease on the scans.
Aim: To evaluate the clinical and biochemical findings of the children and adolescents with vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in order to determine the clinical and biochemical presentation differences between age groups.
Methods: This retrospective study included a review of medical reports of 543 patients (aged between 1-17 years) who were referred to our hospital between October 2011 and May 2012 with symptoms related to vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency. The patients were divided into four groups by age: 1-3 years (Group 1), 4-6 years (Group 2), 7-11 years (Group 3) and 12-17 years (Group 4).