Last. Yavuz Havlucu(Celal Bayar University)H-Index: 6
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Abstract Aim The early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer are important for the prognosis of patients with lung cancer. This study was undertaken to investigate patient and doctor delays in the diagnosis and treatment of NSCLC and the factors affecting these delays. Materials and methods A total of 1016 patients, including 926 (91.1%) males and 90 (8.9%) females with a mean age of 61.5±10.1 years, were enrolled prospectively in this study between May 2010 and May 2011 from 17 sites in variou...
Background Pulmonary embolism (PE) associated with haemodynamic instability has exceedingly high mortality. We describe our experience using percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy (PMT) in patients with massive PE and right ventricle dysfunction. Methods Sixteen patients (11 males and five females; mean age, 55.7 ± 8.3 years) with massive PE were treated with PMT. A percutaneous Aspiration Device (8 French Aspirex® aspiration thrombectomy catheter, Straub Medical, Switzerland) was used in all pati...
Background: Anti-SOX2 antibody responses are observed in about 10 to 20% of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients. The aim of this study was to determine whether such responses reflect a particular pattern of SOX2 protein expression in the tumor and whether this pattern associates with clinical outcome. Methods: Paraffin embedded tumor tissues, obtained from SCLC patients who had no evidence of paraneoplastic autoimmune degeneration, were evaluated for SOX2 expression by immunohistochemistry fo...
Several studies have shown gender differences in prevalence of asthma but there is little information about asthma control. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effect of gender on asthma contro...
Aim: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive tumor with poor prognosis. The study aims to examine the effect of certain clinical, laboratory, radiologic, and pathologic characteristics on survival. Patients and Methods: Sixty patients who had undergone PET/CT evaluation at initial diagnosis were included. We investigated the effect of certain clinical, laboratory, radiologic characteristics, SUVmax of the tumor, and pathological characteristics such as histological subtype, mitotic...
Abstract Thoracentesis is the first investigation to be performed in a patient with lung cancer and pleural effusion. The diagnostic yield of conventional smear studies varies in the first thoracentesis. In this study, we aimed to investigate if the cell block method increases the diagnostic yield in exudative pleural effusions accompanying lung cancer. Forty patients with lung cancer and exudative pleural effusions were included. Ten mililiters of fresh pleural fluid was obtained by thoracentes...
Last. Yavuz Havlucu(Celal Bayar University)H-Index: 6
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OBJECTIVE: Early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer is very important for the prognosis of the patients with lung cancer. This study was undertaken to investigate patient delay and doctor delay in the diagnosis and the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer. In addition, the factors effect of these delays was researched. MATERIAL and METHOD: Between May 2010-May 2011 years, mean age 61.5±10.1, 1016 patients were enrolled prospectively in this study from the different countries in Turkey. 92...
Aim: Thoracenthesis is the first investigation to be done in a lung cancer patient with pleural effusion. We routinely use conventional smear studies (CSS) for diagnosis. We aimed to investigate the diagnostic utility of cell block (CB) method combined with CSS in the first thoracentesis. Method: Forty lung cancer patients with exudative pleural effusions were included in this study. 10 ml of fresh pleural fluid sample was received from all patients in the initial evaluation. Pleural fluid sampl...
Background We aimed to investigate the correlation of maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) with pathological characteristics of primary tumor and to determine a Tumor/ Lymph node (T/LN) SUVmax ratio predicting metastasis to lymph nodes in NSCLC patients.