Publications by authors named "Mehmet Kıran"

Sialolithiasis is the primary cause of swelling in the major salivary glands. The etiopathogenesis is not clear. Adenoid cystic carcinoma is a slow-growing salivary gland malignancy with a poor prognosis.

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Atypical lipomatous tumor, also known as well-differentiated liposarcoma, is rare in the head and neck region. The primary and most effective option in the treatment of this malignancy with a good prognosis is excision with clean surgical margins. Therefore, it is important to distinguish this malignancy from lesions that require more aggressive treatment.

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Purpose: To evaluate the potential role of immunohistochemical changes in stanniocalcin 1 (STC1) and stanniocalcin 2 (STC2) expressions in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) tissues in the disease's diagnosis and to investigate their relationship with classical clinicopathological prognostic factors.

Methods: The study included 100 patients with PTC. Normal thyroid tissue adjacent to the tumor was taken as the control group.

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Basal cell adenocarcinoma is a rare salivary gland neoplasm. It is most commonly seen in the parotid gland, and its involvement in the minor salivary glands or upper respiratory tract is very rare. Surgical excision and/or radiotherapy are the mainstay treatment modalities.

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Benign fibro-osseous lesions of the craniofacial region are a diverse group of entities with overlapping histologic characteristics. One of these fibro-osseous lesions is ossifying fibroma and it is seen rarely in the head and neck region. Only a few cases of temporal bone involvement were reported in the literature.

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