Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
December 2022
Patients diagnosed with Lingual thyroid (LT) may have second thyroid anomaly (STA).Given rarity of dual ectopics/anomalies, standardized management recommendations are lacking. We aimed to describe our experience in management of LT with STA and suggest a management algorithm.
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October 2022
To analyse the pattern of laryngotracheal invasion (LTI) by papillary-thyroid-carcinoma (PTC) and outcomes of their management. We undertook a retrospective chart review to study patterns of LTI by PTC and to evaluate outcomes of surgical modalities used to treat PTC with LTI. Out of 246cases of PTC, 26-cases had LTI (male-12, female-14, mean-age-55.
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October 2022
(1) To determine prevalence of malignancy in contralateral lobe (CL) in patients undergoing completion thyroidectomy (CT) and to study complications of CT. (2) To analyze clinical, ultrasonography(USG) findings and histopathological features of the tumor in ipsilateral lobe (IL) that could predict malignancy in CL. Retrospective chart review of 40-patients who first underwent hemi-thyroidectomy for fine-needle-aspiration (FNA) diagnosed benign lesions followed by CT between September-2017 and November-2019.
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