[A variation of the recurrent laryngeal nerve at its entry to larynx found in the thyroid surgery].

Objective: To describe a new variation of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) at its entry to larynx.

Methods: A retrospective study including 3 078 consecutive cases received thyroidectomy was performed from January 1998 to December 2008. The age ranged from 15 to 82 years, 2 395 cases were female and 683 cases were male.

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt for liver transplantation.

Objectives: To assess transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPSS) as an effective bridge between the control of variceal bleeding or refractory ascites and orthotopic liver transplantation (OLTx) and to examine whether TIPSS influences the operative procedures of OLTx.

Methods: Five patients treated by TIPSS prior to OLTx were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: The patients were followed up for 2-7 months (average 4.

Pancreatic insulinomas: diagnosis and surgical treatment of 74 patients.

Objective: To summarize retrospectively the experience in diagnosis and surgical treatment of pancreatic insulinoma.

Method: 74 patients who had been operated on and confirmed pathologically from July 1967 to July 2001 were enrolled. They were 37 men and 37 women, aged 41.