Utility of quantitative contrast-enhanced ultrasound for the prediction of extracapsular extension in papillary thyroid carcinoma.

The aim of this study was to find an accurate method for the detection of extracapsular extension (ECE) in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). A total of 102 patients with 109 PTC nodules were retrospectively enrolled. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) characteristics were evaluated.

[Non-involuting congenital hemangioma: a study for diagnosis and treatment].

Objective: To study the history, clinical symptoms, imaging and histology of a rare distinct infantile hemangioma.

Methods: 12 patients (5 female, 7 male; aged 18 months - 26 years) diagnosed as non-involuting congenital hemangioma were retrospectively analyzed. The history, imaging, histologic examination and the treatment were collected.

Penile and scrotal Paget's disease: 130 Chinese patients with long-term follow-up.

Objectives: To report a retrospective series of 130 Chinese patients with penoscrotal extramammary Paget's diseases (EMPD), with a long-term follow-up, and thus improve the diagnosis and therapy of this disease.

Patients And Methods: The history, clinical presentation, pathology, treatment, and prognosis of 130 patients were analysed. All cases were confirmed by skin biopsy, and then the patients had local wide resection to remove the involved skin and subcutaneous tissue.