Familial syndromic papillary thyroid carcinoma report of two cases.

Aim: to describe two cases of familial papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Material And Methods: patients were investigated by fine needle biopsy, MRI imaging and tumor biopsy, (first case) and histological examination of colonic and thyroid tumors (first case) and histological examination of thyroid tumor (second case).

Results And Discussion: case presentation: first case, 68 years old man had a colonic polyposis (attenuated form with only a few polyps) and a thyroid nodule.

Retrosternal goiters.

Unlabelled: The term of retrosternal or substernal goiter means that more than 50% of thyroid gland descends in the thorax.

Material And Methods: There is a retrospective study on retrosternal and substernal goiter and its patological features among 2482 patients who underwent thyroidectomy between 2000 and 2010 in the First Surgery Clinic of Iaşi. Retrosternal goiter was identified 54 patients (2.

[Parathyroid glands involvement in multiple endocrine neoplasia].

Unlabelled: Multiple endocrine neoplasias are syndromes characterized by the involvement of at least two endocrine glands. Parathyroid gland involvement is usually noted in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (MEN) type I and type II. Parathyroid glands tumor associated with endocrine pancreatic tumor, as well as pituitary tumors is the typical pattern of MEN I.

Superior mesenteric artery syndrome: an unusual case of intestinal obstruction.

Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is an uncommon cause of proximal intestinal obstruction, frequently occurring in patients who have had an important weight loss. The diagnosis can be difficult and usually is made by exclusion. The most characteristic symptoms are postprandial epigastric pain, fullness, voluminous vomiting and eructation.

[Congenital cystic disease of the biliary system in adults].

Congenital cystic disease of the biliary system is a complex syndrome of ectasies of the intra-, extra- or both situation of biliary tree. This disease has an unsure etiopathogeny. It is uncommon through the third age, with a greater incidence in child, teen-ager and young adult.

[Splenic hydatic cyst. Observations upon 38 cases of splenic echinococcosis].

15 patients with spleen hydatic cysts have been operated between 1986-1998, in percentage of 4.6% from the total number of hydatic cysts--8 females and 7 males with mean age of 44 years (17-70). They have been admitted for abdominal pain (66.