Single-Incision Laparoscopic Left Adrenalectomy

Background: Single-incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) has gained an interest and popularity in the recent years. Although minimally invasive adrenal surgery replaced the open adrenalectomy, SILS adrenalectomy is a step forward technique that improves the cosmesis, decreases acsess related morbidity, and increases the postoperative recovery. We report our first experience with single-incision transperitoneal left adrenalectomy in a patient with Conns' syndrome

The Change in Surgical Practice from Subtotal to Near-Total or Total Thyroidectomy in the Treatment of Patients with Benign Multinodular Goiter

Although total thyroidectomy is the procedure of choice in patients with thyroid carcinoma, this surgical approach has emerged as a surgical option to treat patients with benign multinodular goiter (BMNG), especially in endemically iodine-deficient regions. The aim of this study was to review our experience with patients with BMNG in an endemically iodine-deficient region treated by either subtotal or total/near-total thyroidectomy, and to document whether total or near-total thyroidectomy decreased the rate of completion thyroidectomy for incidentally diagnosed thyroid carcinoma in comparison to the patients with BMNG treated initially by subtotal thyroidectomy

Single-incision laparoscopic adrenalectomy.

Background The aim of this study was to compare outcome measures between conventional transabdominal laparoscopic adrenalectomy and single-incision laparoscopic adrenalectomy (SILA)

Thoracoscopic enucleation of a giant leiomyoma of the esophagus.

Minimally invasive surgery has gained a rapid development and popularity in the recent years. With these developments in minimally invasive surgery, video-thoracoscopic approaches has become more frequently preferred interventions for benign esophageal lesions. Herein, we report a case of a giant esophageal leiomyoma which was successfully enucleated by video-thoracoscopic approach without any peroperative or postoperative complications

The long term outcome of papillary thyroid carcinoma patients without primary central lymph node dissection: Expected improvement of routine dissection

Background. We investigated central compartment recurrence (CCR) and mortality rate in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) who had no central lymph node dissection (CLND) at the time of primary operation

The risk factors for malignancy in surgically treated patients for Graves' disease, toxic multinodular goiter, and toxic adenoma

Background. The impact of age, gender, and coexisting cold nodules on the frequency of thyroid carcinoma in hyperthyroid patients in an endemic iodine-deficient region was investigated