Background The 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) guidelines called for
consideration of thyroid lobectomy (TL) as an acceptable surgical treatment for small and less …

Background As the incidence of adrenalectomy increases steadily, so does the use of minimally
invasive approaches like posterior retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy (PRA). To date, …

Methods A systematic literature review was performed on Pubmed, EMBASE, Scopus and
Cochrane Library databases using a combination of the keywords: papillary thyroid carcinoma…

Conclusions Paragangliomas are rare extra-adrenal neuroendocrine tumors that can be
associated with germline mutations. Our patient was diagnosed with a pancreatic …

Introduction Neck ultrasonography with fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is the
diagnostic modality of choice for clinicians who routinely work up a thyroid mass. Distinguishing …

Management of cecal volvulus with ischemia in the renal transplant recipient is challenging.
The need for a proximal flow diversion after segmental colectomy remains controversial. The …

This is a case series with chart review of 59 consecutive pediatric patients with a diagnosis
of cervical esophageal coin who underwent anterior-commissure laryngoscope (ACLA) …

Objectives: (1) To evaluate the efficacy and safety of coin extraction with the anterior-commissure
laryngoscope during apnea in children less than 10 years old. (2) To present the …

Fuzzy set based time series (FTS) prediction techniques offer potential advantages in efficient
and intuitive data partitioning and the effective handling of uncertainty in the data. However…

… A method that uses a Self-organised Direction Aware Data Partitioning Algorithm (SODA)
for partitioning the universe of discourse was proposed by Vargas Pinto et al. (2022). …