INCIDENTAL PARATHYROIDECTOMY DURING TOTAL THYROIDECTOMY AS A POSSIBLE RISK FACTOR OF HYPOCALCEMIA. EXPERIENCE OF A SINGLE CENTER AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE.

Context: Post-operative clinical and biochemical hypocalcemia is a common complication of thyroid surgery and the correlation with incidental parathyroidectomy (IP) remains controversial.

Objective: To evaluate the incidence of IP during TT, its correlation to early post-surgery hypocalcemia, and its potential risk factors.

Patients And Methods: 77 consecutive patients submitted to thyroid surgery between January 2018 and December 2019.

Non-antibiotic prophylaxis in thyroid surgery. Experience of a single Institution and revision of literature.

Aim: To evaluate the incidence of SSI and systemic infectious complications in a consecutive series of patients undergoing thyroid surgery in the absence of prophylactic antibiotic (NO-AP).

Methods: Prospective observational study including 77 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy and completion of previous hemithyroidectomy in NO-AP. The surgical intervention was performed by surgeons who were experienced in the procedure, and involved the use of Ligasure Harmonic Ethicon®, absorbable hemostat in oxidized regenerated cellulose (Tabotamp®), and skin incision suture device Skin Stapler®.

Modulating the dose-rate differently affects the responsiveness of human epithelial prostate- and mesenchymal rhabdomyosarcoma-cancer cell line to radiation.

Radiation therapy (RT), by using ionizing radiation (IR), destroys cancer cells inducing DNA damage. Despite several studies are continuously performed to identify the best curative dose of IR, the role of dose-rate, IR delivered per unit of time, on tumor control is still largely unknown. Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) and prostate cancer (PCa) cell lines were irradiated with 2 or 10 Gy delivered at dose-rates of 1.

Polypoid lesions of the gallbladder in a consecutive series of 2631 patients. A single-center experience.

Background: Challenges in the diagnosis of polypoid gallbladder lesion (PLG) is due to the low sensibility (SE) of ultrasound scan (US), and the selection criteria of patients with PLG to be addressed to surgical treatment or followup are not yet fully defined.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective observational study was conducted on 2631 patients, 1175(44.6%) M, mean age 56 years, 1456(55.