Increased prediction of right nonrecurrent laryngeal nerve in thyroid surgery using preoperative computed tomography with intraoperative neuromonitoring identification.

Background: A nonrecurrent laryngeal nerve (NRLN) is a rare but potentially serious anatomical variant. Although the incidence is reported to be 0.3% to 1.

Number of central lymph node metastasis for predicting lateral lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma.

Background: The purpose of this study was to present our evaluation of the relationship between the number of positive central lymph nodes and lateral lymph node metastasis in patients with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC).

Methods: Up to 141 patients with PTMC were divided into 3 groups according to different positive central lymph node classifications as follows: group A, no positive central lymph node; group B, 1 positive central lymph node; and group C, 2 or more positive central lymph nodes.

Results: Incidence of lateral lymph node metastasis was 30.

Different distribution of breast ductal carcinoma in situ, ductal carcinoma in situ with microinvasion, and invasion breast cancer.

Background: Breast ductal cancer in situ (DCIS) can recur or progress to invasive ductal cancer (IDC), and the interim stage include DCIS with microinvasion (DCIS-Mi). In this article, we attempt to study the study the differences of clinicopathological features, imaging data, and immunohistochemical-based subtypes among DCIS, DCIS-Mi, and IDC.

Methods: In this retrospective study, we attempt to compare the clinicopathological features, immunohistochemical results and imaging data of 866 patients (included 73 DCIS, 72 DCIS-Mi, and 721 IDC).

Predicting the factors of lateral lymph node metastasis in papillary microcarcinoma of the thyroid in eastern China.

Introduction: Lateral lymph node metastasis is common in papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC). The present study evaluated the clinicopathologic characteristics and ultrasonographic (US) findings in predicting lateral LNM from PTMC in eastern China.

Materials And Methods: A total of 176 patients with confirmed PTMC by final histological examination who underwent central lymph node dissection (LND) and lateral LND were enrolled in our study.

Preoperative BRAF mutation is predictive of occult contralateral carcinoma in patients with unilateral papillary thyroid microcarcinoma.

Background And Objective: The optimal resection extent for clinically unilateral papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) remains controversial. The objective was to investigate risk factors associated with occult contralateral carcinoma, and put emphasis on the predictive value of preoperative BRAF mutation.

Materials And Methods: 100 clinically unilateral PTMC patients all newly diagnosed, previously untreated were analyzed in a prospective cohort study.

Factors predictive of papillary thyroid micro-carcinoma with bilateral involvement and central lymph node metastasis: a retrospective study.

Background: The optimal resection extent for papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC) remains controversial. The objective of the study was to investigate risk factors of bilateral PTMC and central lymph node metastasis (CLNM) to guide surgical strategies for PTMC patients.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 211 PTMC patients who underwent total thyroidectomy (TT) and 122 clinical lymph node-negative (cN0) cases that underwent prophylactic central lymph node dissection (CLND) between 2010 and 2011.

Traumatic neuroma in a patient with breast cancer after mastectomy: a case report and review of the literature.

The incidence of traumatic neuroma is extremely low, especially in those patients with breast cancer after mastectomy. There are only 10 cases reported in the literature. We report a patient who developed a palpable nodular mass near the mastectomy scar.