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K Yagawa

Publications and source records attributed to K Yagawa.

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PubMed1978

[A statistical survey of autopsy cases of malignant goiter (author's transl)].

A total of 747 cases of malignant neoplasms of the thyroid reported in the "Annual of the Pathological Autopsy Cases in Japan" during the past 5 years (1969 approximately 1973) were reviewed and statistically analysed. Histological diagnosis in this series were papillary carcinoma in 323 cases (51.8%), follicular carcinoma in 143 cases (22.9%) and anaplastic carcinoma in 102 cases (16.3%). The average age of patients at autopsy was 58 years for papillary carcinoma cases, 62.4 years for follicular carcinoma cases and 61.7 years for anaplastic carcinoma cases. The incidence of metastatsis to lymph nodes and to organs was 47.3% and 51.5%, respectively in cases of follicular carcinoma and 73.3% and 98.0%, respectively in cases of anaplastic carcinoma. Autopsy revealed an otherwise unnoticed thyroid cancer in 457 cases, which accounted for 61.2% of the entire autopsy cases of malignancy of this organ. A so-called multiple cancer, i.e. the concurrence of carcinomas in the thyroid gland and other organs, was seen in 239 cases (32.3%).

Adenocarcinoma↗
PubMed1978

Association of serum antithyroid antibodies with lymphocytic infiltration of the thyroid gland: studies of seventy autopsied cases.

Postmortem histological examination of the thyroid gland and measurement of serum antithyroid antibodies were performed in 70 patients without overt thyroid disease. Lymphocytic infiltration, antithyroglobulin hemagglutination antibody (TGHA), and antithyroid microsomal hemagglutination antibody (MCHA) were found in 12, 2, and 9 cases, respectively. The incidence of lymphocytic infiltration in females was three times that in males. Ten of the 12 cases with lymphocytic infiltration had positive antibodies (either TGHA or MCHA), while 10 of 11 patients with positive antibodies showed lymphocytic infiltration. Thus, the correlation between morphological and serological findings was highly significant at P less than 0.001. The incidence of a small thyroid gland of less than 15 g in weight was higher in patients with lymphocytic infiltration and/or positive antibodies than in patients with a normal thyroid gland. These data suggest that positive serum antithyroid antibodies in subjects without overt thyroid disease may indicate the existence of lymphocytic infiltration in the thyroid gland, that is presumably subclinical autoimmune thyroiditis.

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PubMed1977

Two cases of nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome.

Two cases of nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome were reported with a review of pertinent literature. The first case was a 59-year-old man, whose autopsy was warranted. Signs and symptoms manifested in this case were basal cell carcinoma, generalized multiple nevi, multiple cysts in the jaws and long bones, pits in the palm and sole, frontal and occipital bossing, ossification of the falx cerebri, a bifid rib, renal fibroma and a patent foramen ovale. The family history revealed a hereditary predisposition as to the syndrome. The patient in the second case included basal cell carcinoma, multiple nevi, multiple jaw cysts, pits in the palm and sole, frontal bossing, calcification of the falx cerebri, cervical vertebral fusion and high-arched palate.

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