Evolving treatment strategies in thin cutaneous head and neck melanoma: 1 institution's experience.

Background: Although existing melanoma literature provides recommendations for thinner lesions (≤1 mm) within a heterogeneous population, a focus on the head and neck group is less pervasive.

Methods: The records of 49 node-negative individuals with thin head and neck melanoma that underwent surgical intervention ± sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy were reviewed.

Results: A significant increased Breslow thickness and mitotic rate, and a trend toward significance in Clark level ≥ IV were shown in patients that underwent an SLN biopsy versus those that did not.

Unintentional parathyroidectomy and hypoparathyroidism in secondary central compartment surgery for thyroid cancer.

Background: Unintentional parathyroidectomy is a complication of thyroid surgery. To our knowledge, no study has specifically examined the incidence of inadvertent parathyroidectomy exclusively in patients undergoing secondary central compartment surgery for recurrent or persistent thyroid cancer.

Methods: The records of 40 patients who underwent 42 secondary central compartment surgeries for thyroid cancer were reviewed to determine the incidence of inadvertent parathyroidectomy.

Secondary central compartment surgery for thyroid cancer.

Objectives/hypothesis: To report surgical outcomes in a large series of patients with a history of thyroid cancer who underwent secondary central compartment surgery (SCCS).

Study Design: Retrospective chart review.

Methods: The records of 44 patients who underwent 47 secondary central compartment surgeries for thyroid cancer were reviewed.

Outcomes in reoperative thyroid cancer.

The recommended initial treatment for locoregional recurrence of thyroid cancer is surgery. Of most value to the surgeon considering reoperation for thyroid cancer is the impact that such procedures have on patient survival; the data in this regard are limited. Also of great interest to the surgeon is morbidity associated with reoperation.

Infant tracheotomy: results of a survey regarding technique.

Objective: To identify practice patterns regarding tracheotomy technique among pediatric otolaryngologists.

Design: Survey of physicians.

Setting: Academic medical center.

Thyroid lymphoma: a single institution's experience.

Background: Primary lymphoma of the thyroid gland is uncommon.

Methods: The tumor registry at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center was searched for all patients carrying a diagnosis of thyroid lymphoma.

Papillary thyroid cancer with an initial presentation of abdominal and flank pain.

Purpose: Well-differentiated thyroid cancer typically presents as a thyroid mass. Common sites of metastases upon presentation include cervical lymph nodes, lung, and bone. Well-differentiated thyroid cancer with clinically apparent kidney metastases is rare, with fewer than 20 cases reported in the literature.