[Pre-operative symptoms and post-operative improvement in patients diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism. Analysis of 120 consecutive cases].

Objective: To compare the pre-operative and post-operative clinical symptoms in patients diagnosed as having hyperparathyroidism and given surgical treatment, in order to prove the existence of statistically significant improvement.

Material And Method: We report here a retrospective study performed on 120 consecutive patients operated on following diagnosis of hyperparathyroidism between 1990 and 2003.

Results: Nephrolithiasis, generalized bone pain and HBP were the most common clinical manifestations.

[Contralateral hemithyroidectomy due to carcinoma of the thyroid. Our cases reviewed and updated].

Objective: We are reporting our 14 years' experience with prior hemithyroidectomies or contralateral hemithyroidectomies after a pathology result reporting malignancy (thyroid carcinoma) in the first surgery.

Material And Method: Twenty female patients with an average age of 45 years old have been studied and we have analyzed the initial symptoms, results of complementary tests, pathology diagnosis following initial surgery, and final outcome after a second intervention.

Results: The incidence of malignancy shown in our series after secondary surgery was 40 % and the percentage of hemithyroidectomy on hemithyroidectomy was 3 % after operating on 650 thyroid glands.

[Hyperparathyroidism associated with thyroid disease. Retrospective study of 15 patients treated in 11 years].

The association of hyperparathyroidism with thyroid pathology previous to surgery is not very frequent in our cases, almost a 15%, but it means another difficulty for the diagnostic and treatment. Between 1991 and 2001 we have studied and operated 15 patients with this clinic association. 14 were female and only 1 male with a range age of 59 years old.

[Killian antrum-choanal polyps. Analysis of 30 operated patients].

The antrochoanal polyps or solitary Killian polyps are seldom benign pathologies. Since 1990 to October 2002 we have registered a total of 30 patients with these diagnosis (20 male and 10 female) between 5 and 70 years old. The nasal obstruction, usually unilateral, has been constant in all of them and in more than a 63% they referred it since more than one year.

[Orbit complications of sinusitis in adults. Our cases during 10 years].

The sinusites orbital complications usually associated to ethmoidites are rare in the childhood. We present a revision of 14 adults patients (10 males and 4 females) 18 to 61 years old. Seven presented a preseptal cellulitis, two had a subperiostial abscess and five an orbitary cellulitis in accordance with the Candler classification.

[Cavum carcinoma. A review of retrospective study about 18 patients in 12 year period].

The cavum or rhinopharynx carcinomas are rare tumors who are divided basically in two histologic types: epidermoid carcinoma and indiferenciated carcinoma. We present a personal revision of 18 patients (15 males and 3 females) diagnosed of cavum carcinoma, the majority (72.2% of indiferenciated type.