Abdominal Pain Management and Point-of-care Ultrasound in the Emergency Department: A Randomised, Prospective, Controlled Study.

Objective: To determine the effect of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) performed during the initial evaluation phase of patients with acute abdominal pain.

Study Design: Randomised controlled, parallel-group trial.

Place And Duration Of Study: Sakarya University Training and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey, from October 2019 to March 2020.

Effects of preoperative biliary drainage methods and time to postoperative complications after biliary drainage in periampullary tumors.

Objective: To compare postoperative morbidity and mortality results in patients with and without endoscopic and percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage due to obstructive jaundice caused by a periampullary tumor and to examine the effect of intervals until surgery on postoperative morbidity and mortality in patients who underwent preoperative biliary drainage (BD).

Methods: Patients were divided into 3 groups according to their BD status. Group1, no biliary drainage (NBD), Group2, Endoscopic biliary drainage (EBD), Group3, Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PBD).

The role of hematological parameters in distinguishing acute appendicitis from lymphoid hyperplasia.

Background: One of the most misdiagnosed appendicular pathologies is lymphoid hyperplasia (LH) that can be managed con-servatively when identified early and is self-limiting. The aim of this retrospective study was to compare acute appendicitis (AA) with LH in terms of hematological parameters to determine whether there is a hematological predictor to distinguish the two diseases.

Methods: Complete blood cell counts of patients with AA were compared with those having LH.

Intraoperative boost radiation effects on early wound complications in breast cancer patients undergoing breast-conserving surgery.

Background/aim: Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) may pose a risk for wound complications. All technical aspects of IORT regarding early wound complications were evaluated. Materials and methods: Ninety-three consecutive patients operated on with the same surgical technique and given (study group) or not given (control group) IORT were included.

Radioguided occult lesion localization for locally recurrent thyroid carcinoma.

The aim of this study was to present our experiences with patients operated on for the recurrence of papillary thyroid cancer with the combined use of preoperative ultrasonographic mapping and radioguided occult lesion localization (ROLL). Twenty patients who had already undergone total thyroidectomy and central/lateral neck dissection for papillary thyroid carcinoma were reoperated on due to locoregional metastasis. The patients with proven recurrences and high Tg wash-out levels in cytopathologic aspirates were operated on.