Publications by authors named "Javier Garcia Torres"
Background: One of the responsibilities of Spanish Navy Dentists is to carry out dental examinations to military divers. Diving is considered an elite activity and carries a high risk of different pathologies, including barodontalgia which is an oral pain induced by atmospheric pressure changes. This study aims to conduct a narrative review on barodontalgia and its implications for divers and Navy dentists.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Selective parathyroidectomy, the treatment of choice for primary hyperparathyroidism, requires precise preoperative localization. Our purpose was to compare the accuracy and concordance of pre-surgical MIBI parathyroid scintigraphy and ultrasonography, as well as to assess the relevance of hybrid acquisition (SPECT/CT) in compromised circumstances: low-weight or ectopic adenomas, coexisting thyroid disease and re-interventions.
Methods: The study included 223 patients with primary hyperparathyroidism operated in a single Surgical Unit from August 2016 to March 2021.
Clinical characteristics and prognosis of familial nonmedullary thyroid carcinoma.
Endocrinol Diabetes Nutr (Engl Ed)
April 2022
Article Synopsis
- Familial non-medullary thyroid carcinoma (FNMTC) is a type of thyroid cancer that affects multiple family members, and this study compared it to non-family cases (sporadic carcinoma or SC).
- They looked at 927 patients from 1990 to 2018 and found that FNMTC usually had smaller tumors and more cases that were in more than one place (multifocality) than SC.
- Overall, FNMTC and SC were similar in terms of how they progressed and the outcomes for the patients, even though FNMTC showed some different characteristics.
Clinical characteristics and prognosis of familial nonmedullary thyroid carcinoma.
Endocrinol Diabetes Nutr (Engl Ed)
September 2021
Article Synopsis
- Familial non-medullary thyroid carcinoma (FNMTC) is when two or more close family members have thyroid cancer, and this study looks at how it compares to regular thyroid cancer (sporadic carcinoma or SC).
- Researchers studied 927 patients from 1990 to 2018 and found that FNMTC had smaller tumors and more cases where multiple tumors showed up in the same patient, but they had similar outcomes in terms of survival and recurrence as SC.
- The study concludes that even though FNMTC tumors are smaller and more spread out in some cases, they don’t seem to be more aggressive or have a worse prognosis than sporadic thyroid cancer.