Breast-conserving surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced cancer. Preliminary results.

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) in locally advanced breast tumors may allow an adequate control of the disease impossible with surgery alone. Moreover, NACT increases the chance of breast-conserving surgery. Between 2008 and 2012, we treated with NACT 83 patients with locally advanced breast cancer.

Hamartoma of the breast in a young woman. Case report.

Hamartoma is a benign tumor-like malformation characterized by a focal mixture of mature cells and tissues normally present in affected area. The hamartoma of the breast is rare. We report a case in an asymptomatic young woman coming to our attention for a left breast lesion detected by ultrasound screening.

Management of acute clinical presentation of anaplastic thyroid cancer. A difficult choice.

Aim: evaluate emergency treatment of patients presenting with anaplastic thyroid cancer with acute compressive sympthoms.

Material Of Study: In the present report, we describe three patients with anaplastic thyroid cancer who presented clinically with acute compressive sympthoms. All patients underwent debulking surgery in order to relieve the sympthoms and perform a potentially curative resection.

[Pilonidal sinus. Outpatient treatment with local anesthesia].

The authors describe their surgical technique for pilonidal sinus outpatient total excision with local anaesthesia and primary repair of surgical wound. The results for recurrences and off work short time are good. Fewer complications and recurrences are observed in comparison to patients treated with general anaesthesia.