The structure of trauma patients, its management and health care in the University Hospital of Alexandroupolis.

Objective: The present study was designed to describe the patterns of trauma patients using a newly-introduced trauma registry, as well as retrospectively assess the management and outcome facts of these patients.

Materials And Methods: The study included 2346 patients (62.15% male) with a mean age of 34.

Thyroglobulin - what is the postoperative threshold for the suspicion of thyroid cancer recurrence in the absence of anti-Tg antibody measurement?

Background: Thyroglobulin (Tg) is used as a postoperative marker for the follow-up of patients with thyroid carcinoma, but there is no consensus regarding the value that may indicate possible recurrence. Aim. To evaluate Tg levels as a marker for recurrence of thyroid carcinoma.

Epidemiology and survival of patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer subjected to total thyroidectomy in Thrace area, Northern Greece: a 20-year experience.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate epidemiology and survival of patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer (WTC) treated with total thyroidectomy (TT) in the area of Thrace, Northern Greece.

Methods: The study was conducted on 80 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy from January 1985 to December 2004 for WTC. Patients' medical records and demographics, including age, sex, histological type (papillary, follicular, mixed type papillary-follicular, Hurthle), stage according to TNM staging, coexistence or future postoperative occurrence of local recurrence or distal metastases and overall and specific survival were analyzed and survival rates were calculated.

Hypofractionated accelerated radiotherapy, cytoprotection and capecitabine in the treatment of rectal cancer: a feasibility study.

Background: This is a report on the feasibility and efficacy of hypofractionated accelerated radiotherapy combined with amifostine cytoprotection (hypoARC) and capecitabine in the treatment of rectal adenocarcinoma.

Patients And Methods: Twenty-seven patients (pts) received pre- (14 pts) or postoperative (13 pts) conformal radiotherapy with 10 consecutive fractions of 3.4 Gy in 12 days, supported with subcutaneously administered high-dose amifostine (up to 1000 mg) and capecitabine (daily dose of 600 mg/m2 twice a day, 5 days per week for 4 weeks).

Evidence for the ''paradox'' association between hypertensive lower esophageal sphincter and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

There are several studies suggesting the paradoxical simultaneous presence of hypertensive lower oesophageal sphincter and gastroesophageal reflux disease. We present a case of a 22-year-old male patient who was examined in our outpatient clinic with oesophageal food bolus impaction during a meal, severe chest pain and drooling. Manometry revealed a hypertensive lower esophageal sphincter pressure (resting pressure 35 mmHg) and pHmetry revealed a DeMeester score > 14.