Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg
August 2024
Background: Adrenal gland injury (AGI) associated with trauma is an uncommon and often overlooked condition. This study aimed to evaluate the frequency of AGI in individuals with severe trauma injuries and investigate the outcomes of patients with AGI.
Methods: All patients admitted to a tertiary trauma referral center under the trauma protocol who had a computed tomography (CT) scan between January 2012 and January 2023 were analyzed retrospectively.
Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging
November 2024
Introduction: This study aims to assess Ga-Trivehexin PET/CT for detecting hyperfunctioning parathyroid tissue in comparison to [Tc]Tc-MIBI scintigraphy-SPECT/CT (MIBI scan) in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT).
Methods: The cohort comprised 13 patients diagnosed with PHPT based on biochemical analyses, including serum calcium, phosphorus, and parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels. Each participant underwent cervical ultrasonography, MIBI scan, and Ga-Trivehexin PET/CT imaging.
Background And Aim: Radioembolization (RE) is a one of the palliative treatments that have been used to down stage and/or increase the survival time in intermediate-advanced stages of HCC. We aimed to evaluate the clinical impact of RE and the clinical use of the albumin-bilirubin (ALBI) score as a predictor for survival in HCC patients.
Materials And Methods: Fifty-nine unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients were enrolled.
In this report, we describe a very rare variant adrenal venous anatomy in a left-sided pheochromocytoma case with left adrenal vein draining into the inferior vena cava (IVC). A 66-year-old female with an incidentally discovered left adrenal mass was referred to our clinic for further diagnostic work up. She had hypertension for the past three years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo derive lessons from the data of patients who were followed for various periods with the misdiagnosis of liver hemangioma and eventually found to have a malignancy. The records of 23 patients treated between 2003 and 2018 were analyzed retrospectively. Twelve patients were men and 11 were women; median (range) age was 55 (35-80).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLong-term albendazole treatment should be given to all patients with unresectable hepatic alveolar echinococcosis as dramatic regression is possible in 15%-20%. It may be prudent to prepare a living donor for possible salvage transplant in case of a severe complication. Preemptive transplantation in mildly symptomatic patients should be discouraged.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Iatrogenic factors persist as leading mechanisms of cholangitis at a referral center.
Methods: The records of 51 patients treated for cholangitis due to incomplete or inappropriate nonoperative biliary interventions between 2005-2016 were evaluated retrospectively.
Results: Twenty-nine patients were men; median (range) age was 60 (30-90).
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol
November 2021
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the nature of spontaneous regression of liver hemangiomas.
Patients And Methods: The records of the liver hemangioma patients who attended the out-patient clinic between 1988 and 2018 were evaluated. The data of the 716 adult patients who were followed for at least 3 years with cross-sectional imaging were analyzed.
Background: Living donor liver transplantation may complement cadaveric transplantation in acute liver failure (ALF) patients.
Methods: Between 2008 and 2017, 89 patients were treated for ALF; 15 patients (17%) recovered with intensive care treatment; 31 (35%) died without transplant. The records of the remaining 43 patients (median (range) age: 14 (1-62)) who underwent transplantation were evaluated.
The steroid-induced, rapid healing of the biliary tree ravaged by IgG4-related disease shows that the point of irreversibility remains to be defined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy and selective internal radiation therapy are effective radionuclide therapy modalities for unresectable metastatic neuroendocrine tumor patients that cannot be controlled with somatostatin analogs. The present study is intended to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy and toxicity of the combined therapy of selective internal radiation therapy and peptide receptor radionuclide therapy and stand-alone selective internal radiation therapy in patients with neuroendocrine tumor, a liver-dominant disease.
Methods: This cohort consists of 27 patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumor and liver-dominant disease.
Arterial aneurysms are rare manifestations of Behçet Disease (BD) with high morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to investigate the clinical course of BD patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). We retrospectively searched charts of BD patients, followed up between 1988 and 2011, to identify those with AAA with at least 6-month clinical and radiological follow-up data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To investigate clinical, etiological, and prognostic features in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
Methods: Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who were followed-up from 2001 to 2011 were included in the study. The diagnosis was established by histopathological and/or radiological criteria.
Background: Transarterial embolization of liver hemangiomas has not been considered to be consistently effective.
Methods: The charts of 25 patients who underwent superselective transarterial chemoembolization with the bleomycin-lipiodol emulsion were evaluated retrospectively.
Results: Twenty-two patients had abdominal pain; asymptomatic/vaguely symptomatic enlargement was the treatment indication in three patients.
Background: Transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) is an effective minimally invasive adjunct to surgery for the management and/or palliation of adrenal tumors.
Methods: In this case study, we reported three patients who underwent preoperative TAE before adrenalectomy for large hypervascular adrenal tumors. All patients underwent preoperative embolization 24 h before the operation and were then followed up at the intensive care unit surgery.
Background: The aim of the study was to evaluate the results of ultrasonography (US)-guided percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in hyperparathyroid patients who refused surgery or had high surgical risks.
Patients And Methods: Five patients with hyperparathyroidism (HPT) underwent US-guided RFA for a single hyperfunctioning parathyroid lesion. Post-ablation serum calcium and parathormone (PTH) assays were performed.
Purpose: Although some algorithms are defined for the treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the expected survival cannot be prolonged as it is intended. Treatment options for this group of patients are limited. Radioembolization with yttrium-90 (Y-90) microspheres is a new treatment modality, which has also been used in advanced HCC patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The aim of the study was to retrospectively evaluate the potential benefit on survival outcomes of selective intraarterial radionuclide therapy (SIRT) with Yttrium-90 microspheres as a salvage therapy in liver metastasis of different tumors.
Material And Methods: Sixty-one patients who had unresectable liver metastases from colorectal carcinoma (n=23), neuroendocrine tumor (NET; n=12), cholangiocarcinoma (n=9), and others (n=17) received yttrium-90 microspheres. All patients were treated in a salvage setting with an 11-month mean follow-up.
Introduction: Venous balloon dilation and stent therapy have been proposed as effective treatments for chronic iliofemoral thrombosis. In this study, we report our experience and describe the one-year outcome and efficacy of balloon angioplasty and stenting for the treatment of post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) in iliofemoral vein segments.
Methods: From June 2011 to June 2012, 52 consecutive patients with chronic PTS (59 limbs; 75% women; median age 58 years; range: 23-76 years) referred to our unit for interventional assessment were included in the study.
The Bethesda system (BS) for reporting thyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA), which classifies nodules as nondiagnostic (ND), benign (B), atypia/follicular lesion of undetermined significance (AUS/FLUS), suspicious for follicular neoplasm (SFN/FN), suspicious for malignancy (SFM), or malignant (M), uses clinically valuable management guidelines. The authors employed a similar in-house classification system (IS) for thyroid FNAs, using the categories of ND, B, suspicious follicular cells (SFC), follicular lesion/neoplasm (FL/FN), SFM, and M. The authors compared IS and BS, and assessed the utility of BS in clinical practice.
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