Publications by authors named "Il Ku Kang"
Purpose: Recurrent laryngeal nerve injury after thyroid surgery may cause vocal cord palsy (VCP), which leads to unexpected additional costs. In recent years, intraoperative neural monitoring (IONM) has been used to lower the incidence rate of VCP. This study aimed to analyze postoperative management costs for patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe American Thyroid Association risk stratification system suggests that having >5 metastatic lymph nodes (LNs) increase the recurrence risk in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). However, little is known about PTC with <5 harvested LNs. This study aimed to stratify patients with low-LN-yield (low-LNY) PTC based on lymph node ratios (LNRs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of this study was to establish the risk factors for re-recurrences and disease-specific mortality (DSM) in recurrent thyroid cancer. Patients with recurrent thyroid cancer who underwent initial thyroid surgery from January 2000 to December 2019 at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital (Seoul, Korea) were assessed.
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- The study focused on validating the safety and feasibility of a new single-port robotic system for thyroid surgery, specifically the trans-axillary approach (SP-TART) at a Seoul hospital.
- It analyzed data from 100 patients over eight months, looking at different types of thyroid surgeries performed and their outcomes, including operation time and complications.
- The results showed SP-TART is effective, with a majority of cancer cases being papillary carcinoma and only a few major complications occurring, along with short hospital stays post-surgery.
The purpose of the present study was to compare the risk of recurrence between T2 and T3b papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and the effect of tumor size on survival in T3b disease. A total of 634 patients with PTC who underwent thyroid surgery at a single center were retrospectively analyzed. Clinicopathological characteristics were compared according to the T category in the TNM staging system, with T3b divided into T3b-1 (tumor size, ≤2 cm) and T3b-2 (tumor size, 2-4 cm).
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- A study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the pectoralis nerve block II (PECS II) in reducing postoperative pain for patients who underwent robot-assisted transaxillary thyroidectomy (RATT).
- The researchers reviewed data from 62 patients, dividing them into a block group (received PECS II) and a no-block group, and measured pain levels at various times using a visual analog scale (VAS).
- The results showed that the block group had significantly lower pain scores at 10 and 25 hours post-surgery and required fewer painkillers in the recovery unit, suggesting that PECS II could enhance pain management strategies for RATT patients.
The lymph node ratio (LNR) indicates the number of metastatic lymph nodes (LNs) to the total number of LNs. The prognostic value of LNR in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and other solid tumors is known. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between LNR and disease-free survival (DFS) in patients with PTC with lateral LN metastases (N1b PTC).
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