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Alpha human atrial natriuretic pepetide and anterior pituitary hormones secretion in men
No full textMetastasi tiroidea da carcinoma squamo-cellulare della tonsilla palatina = Thyroid's metastasis of tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma
No full textThe authors describe the case of a 58 years old man, affected by squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil, who underwent left tonsillectomy with bilateral neck dissection, followed by radiotherapy. After a 6 months period, the patient began to suffer from dysphonia, dysphagia and loss of weight: a painless neoformation was detected at the right lobe of the tyhroid, resulted a metastasis of the tonsillar neoplasm. The search for intranodular thyroglobulin was negative; the patient underwent thyroidectomy which showed a massive infiltration of the right cricothyroid space, cricoid and thyroid wing cartilage necrosis and intralaryngeal tumor infiltration. The authors describe the thyroid metastasis treatment, present an up-to-date review of the literature and suggest a thyroid careful clinical evaluation in every patient with a previous history of oropharyngeal cance
The influence of gonadal steroids on the dopamine inhibitory effect on gonadotropin release in men.
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Parathyroid function study in patients submitted to laryngeal surgery for squamous cell carcinoma
No full textAim of this study was to investigate any eventual quantitative variations in the serological concentration of parathormone in a homogenous sample of patients suffering from laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma who underwent only surgery. A total of 12 patients (2 female, 10 male), aged between 58 and 76 years, were treated between June 2002 and June 2003. The patients were all affected by T2-T3 laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma. Serum intact parathyroid hormone and calcaemia were measured pre- and post-operatively. Of these patients, 2 underwent total laryngectomy (including thyroid isthmectomy), 5 patients received partial supraglottic laryngectomy, while the remaining 5 were submitted to supracricoid laryngectomy. Results showed a progressive regression of parathyroid hormone level, in only one case and was not, however, below normal limits. Contrary to data reported in the literature, this study indicated that the incidence of hypoparathyroidism following laryngeal surgery, even in radical surgical approaches, proved to be closer to zero
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