Relationship between disease severity and serum IL-6 levels in COVID-19 anosmia.

Background: An association between IL-6 levels and cytokine storm syndrome in COVID-19 patients has been suggested. Cases with higher IL-6 levels have more rapid progression and a higher complication rate. On the other hand, COVID-19 cases with anosmia have a milder course of the disease.

Struggle Against Pandemic in A Private Hospital: What We Have Learnt from Pandemic?

Corona Virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is one of the biggest outbreaks in the last century and is caused by a kind of coronavirus, spread to many countries in a short time after being first seen in the Wuhan region of China in December 2019. The COVID-19 outbreak, which spread rapidly and caused many deaths, was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The first COVID-19 case in Turkey, coincidentally, was seen on the same day.

Analysis of 89 patients who underwent tube thoracostomy performed by general surgeons.

Objective: Death due to thoracic trauma accounts for 20% of all trauma deaths. The aim of this study was to discuss the approach applied by general surgeons to thoracic trauma in our center.

Material And Methods: A total of 89 patients (82 male, 7 female; mean age: 26.

The Effects of Local and Systemic Administration of Proline on Wound Healing in Rats.

Wound healing consists of a sequence of complex molecular and cellular events. Collagen is composed mainly of proline and hydroxyproline. Proline and hydroxyproline constitute 1/3 of the amino acids in collagen, which makes up approximately 30% of the proteins within the body.

Prosthetic Mesh Repair for Incarcerated Inguinal Hernia.

Background: Incarcerated inguinal hernia is a commonly encountered urgent surgical condition, and tension-free repair is a well-established method for the treatment of non-complicated cases. However, due to the risk of prosthetic material-related infections, the use of mesh in the repair of strangulated or incarcerated hernia has often been subject to debate. Recent studies have demonstrated that biomaterials represent suitable materials for performing urgent hernia repair.

Serum Galectin-3: diagnostic value for papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Objective: Thyroid cancer constitutes approximately 1% of all cancers, approximately 90% of the endocrine malignancies, and is responsible for 0.4% of cancer-related deaths. Additional markers are required for the accurate diagnosis of thyroid malignancies.

Primary extrahepatic bile duct lymphoma mimicking Klatskin's tumor, dramatic response to chemotherapy.

Introduction: Non- Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) mimicking Klatskin's tumor is rare but possible. It can be confused with tumors for which major surgery is needed. Imaging modalities have similar features in Klatskin's tumor and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Distinct postsurgical management in young and elderly breast cancer patients results in equal survival rates.

Background: Although breast cancer (BC) is one of the most common malignant diseases in women, the majority of the studies describing the characteristics of BC in elderly patients have been limited to survival assessments or tumor features, without using younger BC patients as a reference group. The aim of our study was to describe and compare tumor characteristics and management patterns in elderly versus younger breast cancer patients in Turkey.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 152 patients with invasive breast cancer who underwent surgery in our institution between 2002 and 2012.

Unexpected multiple intra-abdominal injuries after projectile fragmentation: report of three cases.

Explosives create and energize particles that act as projectiles prone to further fragmentation or create other secondary missiles in the body. These fragments may result in secondary injuries. This has been repeatedly described in the orthopedic and neurosurgical literature.

Alpha-1 protease inhibitor and antichymotrypsin levels in acute pancreatitis.

Background: Acute pancreatitis with high mortality of severe onset is still a major problem in medicine. Early identification of the severity of the disease is critical for effective treatment. Many markers have been tried and are still being tested.

Bare dorsal thoracic fascial flap for esophageal defects: an experimental study with dogs.

Background: Reconstruction of esophageal defects has challenged reconstructive surgeons for a long time. Problems that affect the continuity of the orogastic tract influence the patient's quality of life and general health. Bare free fascial flaps are used to restore soft tissue defects of the oral cavity because they provide thin, pliable tissues with a high capacity for epithelialization to preserve the local anatomy.

Bare serratus anterior free flap in the reconstruction of the partial pharyngoesophageal defect.

Reconstruction of defects of the cervical esophagus is a challenge in head and neck surgery. Several methods have been used: flaps with local tissues, pharyngogastric anastomosis, deltopectoral skin flaps, skin muscle transplant from the pectoralis major, and microvascularized free skin fascial and small intestine flaps. A 81-year-old patient who has a partial pharyngoesophageal defect after resection of laryngeal carcinoma underwent reconstruction with bare serratus anterior fascial free flap.

Reduction mammaplasty using the free-nipple-graft vertical technique for severe breast hypertrophy: improved outcomes with the superior dermaglandular flap.

Background: Management of severe mammary hypertrophy is a challenge. The limitations of most dermal pedicle techniques include insufficient breast projection with severe hypertrophy. The authors have designed a free-nipple-graft vertical technique with a superior demaglandular flap to provide acceptable breast projection and an attractive, smooth breast contour for patients with severe hypertrophy and gigantomastia who are not suitable for pedicle breast reduction techniques.

Close correlation between restriction fragment length polymorphism of L-myc gene and susceptibility to gastric cancer.

Aim: A common inherited RFLP of the L-myc proto-oncogene has been reported to correlate with cancer susceptibility. Our aim was to test the hypothesis that there was association between L-myc S allele in gastric cancer and predisposition to the disease.

Methods: The distribution of L-myc polymorphism in 25 patients with gastric cancer was determined by polymerase chain reaction-based restriction fragment length polymorphism and compared with that of 83 healthy control subjects.