• 대한두경부종양학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.106-111
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• 1992

Ten patients with $H\"{u}rthle$ cell tumor of the thyroid gland from Dec. 1987 to Sep. 1992 were reviewed to delinate an acceptable policy of treatment. Patients varied from age 23 years to 66 and consisted of nine females and one male, most of whom had an asymptomatic solitary cold nodule. Four patients had benign neoplasm and six patients had malignant neoplasm proven by capsular or vascular invasion or nodal metastasis. Associated thyroid lesions occurred in five patients, three adenomatous goiter, one Graves' disease and one follicular cell carcinoma. Surgery consisting of lobectomy and isthmectomy in four patients, bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy in one patients, total thyroidectomy in five patients. Lymph node dissection was not performed. Only one patient was experienced transient hypocalcemia. The period of observation varied from 15 to 58 months(mean, 30.5 months). Although our case was small and short follow up period, there were no recurrences or deaths. We suggested early aggressive surgical approach was appropriate because of lower recurrence rate and fewer operation, high bilateralism, lower surgical complication.

• 대한두경부종양학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.10-14
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• 2005

Objectives: Various techniques of endoscopic thyroidectomy have been developed in thyroid resection since 1998 in the aspect of excellent cosmetic viewpoint. Of them, we evaluated our experiences and advantages of gasless axillary approach technique for resection of dominant thyroid nodules. Material and Methods: Twenty-nine cases of thyroid nodules were operated by the technique of gasless axillary approach during one year from December 2003 to December 2004. Twenty four patients underwent total lobectomy and five patients were partial lobectomy. Results: The operation time of first case took 300 minutes, however it became gradually shortened with case experiences down to 100-120 minutes. Pathologically, nodular hyperplasia was twenty cases, follicular adenoma five cases, papillary carcinoma three patients, and Hashimoto's thyroiditis one patient. There was no case of conversion to open thyroidectomy. Three cases of postoperative hoarseness were recovered spontaneously in 3 months. Hospital stay was four days for most patients. The cosmetic result was excellent without visible scar in anterior neck and chest. Conclusion: Endoscopic thyroidectomy via gasless axillary approach shows excellent result in cosmetic view point with hidden incision scar at axilla, and shorter hospitalization. However a question of longer operation time for dissection of the long plane over pectoral muscle is still remained.

• 대한두경부종양학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.50-55
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• 2002

Objectives: Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy with favorable histologic and prognostic characteristics. Total or near total thyroidectomy has been used as a standard surgical procedure. The aims of this study are to determine the extent of resection of thyroid gland and to find the influencing factors of lymph node metastasis. Materials and Methods: The authors reviewed the records of 194 patients of thyroid cancer surgically treated at Department of General Surgery, Inje University Busan Paik Hospital from January, 1996 to December, 2000. Pathologic classifications, surgical procedures, and lymph node metastasis were analyzed. Results: There were 163 women and 31 men. The age ranged from 12 to 79 years old (mean age 43.2 years). The histological classifications of 194 cases revealed papillary cancer in 171 cases (88.1%), follicular cancer in 17 cases (8.8%), undifferentiated cancer in 3 cases (1.6%), medullary cancer in 2 cases (1.0%) and mixed cancer in 1 case (0.5%). Among the 194 patients, lobectomy was perfomed in 31 patients, subtotal thyroidectomy in 30 patients, near total thyroidectomy in 82 patients and total thyroidectomy in 51 patients. In the subgroup of papillary carcinoma 141 cases with lymph node dissection, lymph node metastasis had no statistical significance according to sex, age and primary tumor size. Conclusions: The mainly performed surgical procedures were total thyroidectomy and near total thyroidectomy. In thyroid cancer surgery, the extent of resection was influenced by age, differentiation and primary tumor size. The lymph node dissection should be decided by lymph node metastasis identified by preoperative radiologic evaluation or intraoperative lymph node findings.

• 대한두경부종양학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.153-160
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• 1996

Regardless of the prognostic factors in papillary thyroid cancer, such as sex, age, size of tumor, extent of disease, and distant metastasis, the prognosis of papillary thyroid cancer is sometimes difficult to predict from clinical and microscopic analysis alone and additional prognostic indicators are needed. Recent studies of thyroid cancer have indicated that DNA aneuploidy may be correlated to the biological behavior of malignancy and inversely correlated to the prognosis, but it still remains contraversal. We performed this study to assess DNA ploidy patterns in relation with the previously known prognostic factors in AMES scoring system and lateral neck node metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer. A series of 132 patients with papillary thyroid cancer and 80 patients with benign thyroid tumor(27 follicular adenomas and 53 adenomatous goiters) as a control group from October 1993 to Feburary 1995 were analyzed and their nuclear DNA content was measured with flow cytometry using fresh tissue specimens. DNA aneuploidy was found in 8(6.1%) in papillary cancer and 8(10%) in benign tumor. S-phase traction(SFP) and proliferative index(PI) were higher in thyroid cancers, being 2.18$\pm$4.24%, 6.34$\pm$4.94% in the papillary thyroid cancers and 1.97$\pm$2.93%, 4.44$\pm$3.80% in the benign tumors, respectively. However there was no significant difference of values between two groups(p>0.05). Among variable prognostic factors studied(age, sex, size of tun or, extent of disease, distant metastasis in AMES scoring system and lateral neck node metastasis), DNA aneuploidy was found to be common in distant metastasis(p<0.001) and in lateral neck node metastasis(p>0.035), but there was no significant difference between the high risk and low risk group according to the AMES scoring system(p<0.08). In our study, DNA aneuploidy was not valuable in determining the presence of malignancy and did not correlate to the AMES scoring system. However, follow-up study of more cases will be needed for accurate information about the DNA ploidy as a independent prognostic factor.

• 대한두경부종양학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.244-252
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• 1998

저자들은 1987년 1월부터 1997년 2월까지 만 10년간 경상대학교병원 외과학 교실에서 갑상선 결절 환자 298예에 대하여 임상적 검토를 실시하여 다음과 같은 성적을 얻었다. 1) 갑상선 결절 총 298예 중 양성 결절은 214예(71.8%), 악성 결절 84예(28.2%)이었고, 악성율은 진단방법의 발달과 수술 적응증의 강화로 증가 되었다. 양성 결절과 악성 결절은 30대에서 50대 사이에서 호발하였고 나이가 증가함에 따라 악성 빈도가 증가하였다. 남녀비는 양성 결절에서 1:5.88이었고, 악성 결절에서 1:11이었다. 2) 병리조직학적 소견상 양성 결절 214예중 여포선 종 136예 (63.5%), 선종성 선종 67예 (31.3%), 휘틀 세포 선종 4예(1.9%), 낭종 3예(1.4%), 기타 갑상선염 4예 (1.9%)이었고, 악성종양 84예중 유두암 728예 (85.72%). 여포암 8예(9.5%), 미분화암 2예(2.4%), 수양암 1예 (1.2%), 악성 림프종 1예 (1.2%)이었다. 3) 술전 시행한 세침 천자 흡인 세포 검사의 민감도는 52.8%, 특이도는 98.4%, 위음성율은 47.2%이었다. 4) 총 298예 중 단일 결절 85.6%, 다발성 결절 14.4%이었으며 이중 악성결절의 빈도는 단일 결절의 26.6%, 다발성 결절의 37.3%이었고, 고형 결절의 악성도는 83.3%로 낭성 결절의 16.7%보다 높았고, 갑상선 주사소견상 악성 결절에서 cold nodule이 22.7%였다. 5) 수술 방법은 양성결절 214예중 동측 전엽 절제술과 협부 절제술이 86%에서 시술 되었고, 악성 결절 84예 중 경부 곽청술을 동반한 갑상선 전절제술 27.3% 갑상선 전절제술 23.8%, 동측 전엽 절제술과 협부 절제술 23.8%에서 시술되었고, 술후 합병증은 전체 7.1% 중 양성 결절의 1.9%, 악성 결절의 20.2%에서 발생하여 악성 결절 수술시 유의하게 높았다. 영구 부갑상선 기능 저하증 2예(0.7%)에서 발생하였다. 악성 결절의 수술후 재발은 주로 유두상암의 임프절 재발이 다수였고 미분화암에서는 국소 재발 및 림프절 재발이 있었으나 원이부 전이는 없었다.

• 대한세포병리학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2008

Although subacute granulomatous thyroiditis(SGT) is usually diagnosed clinically, papillary carcinoma or other thyroid conditions must be considered in the differential diagnosis. We retrospectively reviewed the clinical and fine-needle aspiration(FNA) cytologic findings seen in 10 SGT cases to decide what are the most reliable cytologic findings and the most helpful molecular tools for reaching a confident cytologic diagnosis. The most representative smear slides were retrieved to perform immunocytochemistry for cytokeratin 19(CK19) and Ret protein. Five papillary carcinomas(PTCs) were included as controls. The constant and typical cytologic findings of SGT were multinucleated giant cells(MGCs) (100%), epithelioid granulomas(90%), an inflammatory dirty background(90%) and plump transformed follicular cells(80%) without fire-flare cells, oncocytic cells or transformed lymphocytes. The immunoreactivities for CK19(37.5%) and Ret(10%) of the follicular cells of SGT were less than those(CK19 and Ret:100%) of PTC. CK19 immunoreactivity of the MGCs was seen in only one case of PTC. There was no significant difference between CK19 and Ret immunocytochemical staining for the MGCs of both SGT and PTC. The results of this study demonstrate that the cytological diagnosis of SGT can be improved by employing a combination of the typical and constant diagnostic cytological features and immunocytochemical results.

• 대한세포병리학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.77-80
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• 1993

부신경종은 주로 두경부에 발생하는 종양으로서 그 조직학적 소견은 잘 알려져 있으나 세포학적 고찰은 드문 편이다. 저자들은 30세 여자 환자의 경동맥체에 발생한 부신경절종 1례의 세침 흡인 세포학적 소견을 보고하고자 한다. 환자는 3년간 지속된 직경 3cm의 좌측 경부 종괴를 호소하였으며 본 종괴에서 세침 흡인 세포학적 검사를 시행하였다. 종양세포는 집단이나 낱개로 흩어져서 관찰되었는데 중등도의 세포질을 가졌으며 세포경계는 불분명하였다. 핵은 둥글거나 난원형으로서 간혹 거대핵의 관찰되었다. 핵질은 미세한 응집을 보였고 때로 핵소체가 존재하였다. 본 종양은 발생위치와 세포학적 소견이 갑상선에서 전이한 여포암종과 유사하였으며 기타두경부에 발생하는 원발성 및 전이성 병변과의 감별이 요구된다.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.41-48
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• 1982

113 patients with nodular goiter were studied cytologically by needle aspiration for differential diagnosis at the department of internal medicine, Chung Nam National University Hospital since October 1980 till July 1981, and the final diagnosis taken from biopsies were compared with the cytologic method on the 44 cases who received operation. The results were obtained as follows: 1. Among the 113 cases of total patients, male were 15 cases (13.3%) and female were 98 cases (86.7%) and the sex ratio (M:F) was 1 : 6.5. The peak age incidence was in the third decade followed by forth and second decades. 2. The findings of cytological diagnosis in 113 cases showed benign adenoma in 69 cases (61.1 %), Subacute and chronic thyroiditis in 22 cases(19.5%), papillary carcinoma in 15 cases (13.3%) and follicular carcinoma in 7 cases (6.2%), respectively, and 48 cases (69.6%) of the.adenomas and 2 cases(9.1%) of papillary carcinomas showed combined cystic degeneration of the nodules. 3. The diameter of the nodules by palpation revealed within $2\sim5cm$ in 88 cases (77.9%) out of 113 cases, below 2 cm in 17 cases and over 5cm in 8 cases and there were no significant relationship between the size of the nodule and disease entity. 4. The findings of thyroid scintigram using $^{131}I$ in 113 cases of nodular goiter showed "cold nodule" in 111 cases (98.2%) and normal scan (radioactivity) in 2 cases (1.8%) which showed adenoma in cytology and there was no cases with "hot nodule". 5. The thyroid functions of the 113 cases revealed as euthyroidism in 108 cases (95. 6%), hypothyroidism in 2 cases (1.8%) who showed chronic thyroiditis and hyperthyroidism in 3 cases (2.7%) in adenomas but there was no evidence that the nodules of the above 3 cases were the reason of hyperthyroidism. 6. In 44 operated cases, the histological diagnosis revealed 23 cases of adenoma out of 27 cases(85.2%) who were diagnosed as adenoma by cytology and 15 cases of malignancy out of 17 cases (88.2 %), and the overall diagnostic accuracy of aspiration cytology was 86.4 %.