[Giant juvenile fibroadenoma - a benign and rare tumour of the breast in adolescent girls].

A rapidly growing mass in the breast may be stressful for both parents and child as the suspicion of malignancy arises. The purpose of this case report is to draw attention to the fact that most emerging lesions of the breast in girls during puberty are benign. This case report presents a ten-year-old girl with a rapidly growing tumour in the breast.

Complications to thyroid surgery: results as reported in a database from a multicenter audit comprising 3,660 patients.

Background And Aim: During recent years, more radical surgery for thyroid disease, i.e., total instead of subtotal resection, has been evident.

Immunohistochemical staining for thyroid peroxidase (TPO) of needle core biopsies in the diagnosis of scintigraphically cold thyroid nodules.

Background: Cold thyroid nodules are common, in particular in iodine-deficient areas, but only a minority of them are malignant requiring surgery. Thyroid peroxidase (TPO) immunostaining of fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) material has proven helpful in diagnosing cells from malignant lesions, but the procedure has its limitations in a routine setting.

Purpose: To improve diagnosis and reduce surgery rate, the FNAC procedure was replaced by needle core biopsy (NCB), which was routinely stained for TPO by the monoclonal antibody mAb 47.

Scandinavian Quality Register for Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery: audit of surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism.

Background And Aim: Scandinavian Quality Register for Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery is an on-line web-based database with the aim to improve the quality of thyroid and parathyroid surgery. Preliminary data from surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism are reported here.

Materials And Methods: Fifteen departments registered 806 operations, with 639 women (79.

Risk assessment for severe postoperative hypocalcaemia after neck exploration for primary hyperparathyroidism.

Background And Aims: A further development of the risk profile for severe postoperative hypocalcaemia after surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) was made with the aim of expanding the group of patients who can be discharged safely after 23 hours.

Methods: Prospective study with 156 consecutive pHPT patients (158 operations) during 2001 and 2002. Risk factors for postoperative severe hypocalcaemia (ionised calcium < 1 mmol/L), were (1) preoperative concentration of parathyroid hormone (PTH) > 35 pmol/L (five times the upper reference value, reference range 1.