Thyroid hemiagenesis is a rare entity in the literature. Developmental hemi-thyroid anomalies can result from either an abnormal descent or an agenesis of one lobe of the thyroid gland. This study aimed at presenting a thyroid hemiagenesis case incidentally diagnosed by neck ultrasonography (USG), who had complaints of pain and swelling in the neck.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSymptoms of patients or the way of presenting complaints by the patients may be indefinite, obscure or misleading for the diagnosis of supraventricular tachycardia. The content of the history shows variability depending on the present symptoms, patient concerns and priority. Herein, an unusual case of a young woman suffering from chilling-like attacks for one and half years and treated by slow pathway ablation has been presented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMale breast cancer is a rare disease and it differs from breast cancer in women by some characteristics. The incidence of the disease has increased in the last 25 years. The records of male patients who underwent surgery for breast cancer between 2007 and 2017 were retrospectively reviewed in a tertiary care hospital in Istanbul, Turkey.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: It has been shown that functional status of dendritic cells (DCs) in diabetic patients with unstable angina pectoris (UAP) are more mature and activated than diabetic patients without coronary artery disease (CAD) and none diabetic patients with UAP. Accordingly we aimed to assess the activation of DCs in patients with CAD with/and without Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and compare to those in subjects with normal coronary arteries (NCA).
Materials And Methods: Twenty three patients with severe CAD who were scheduled to coronary artery by-pass grafting surgery and 6 patients with angiographycally NCAs were included in the study.
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