Publications by authors named "C J Rah"
Purpose: Pediatric papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is recommended to perform aggressive surgery to reduce the risk of recurrence. This study was designed to evaluate the concurrent association between multifocality, bilaterality, and the risk of recurrence in pediatric PTC.
Materials And Methods: This retrospective cohort study included pediatric patients (age <19 years) who underwent total thyroidectomy for PTC between 1996 and 2014 in a single tertiary center.
Article Synopsis
- - The study focused on understanding recurrence risks in early-stage adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) patients after surgical removal of tumors, highlighting that ACC is rare and typically has a poor outlook.
- - Out of 38 patients, 55.3% experienced tumor recurrence, with no notable difference between stages 1 and 2 and higher recurrence rates in those opting for minimally invasive surgery.
- - It was noted that having clear surgical margins (both gross and pathologic) did not guarantee lower recurrence rates, and no definitive factors were identified that could predict prognosis.
Vasomotion is the oscillation of vascular tone which gives rise to flow motion of blood into an organ. As is well known, spontaneous contractile organs such as heart, GI, and genitourinary tract produce rhythmic contraction. It imposes or removes pressure on their vessels alternatively for exchange of many substances.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Adrenocortical carcinoma, a rare malignancy, has a poor prognosis, and the treatment modalities have not been well established. This study aimed to analyze the trend of treatment modalities and outcomes of patients with adrenocortical carcinoma.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 94 patients with adrenocortical carcinoma between January 1995 and June 2020 for distributions according to the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) 8th edition tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging, the yearly trend of demographic features, differences in multidisciplinary treatment, and prognostic outcomes.
Background: Pheochromocytoma often carries a risk for perioperative hemodynamic instability (HDI). The aim of this study is to evaluate the risk factors of intraoperative HDI during minimally invasive posterior retroperitoneal adrenalectomy (PRA) for pheochromocytoma.
Materials And Methods: This retrospective study analyzed the prospectively collected data of 172 patients who underwent laparoscopic PRA or robotic PRA for pheochromocytoma between January 2014 and December 2020 at a single tertiary center.