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Dr. Fatih Tunca

Dr. Fatih Tunca

Endocrine Surgery

, Istanbul, Turkey

24 Years of experience

Speaks: Turkish,English

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About Dr. Fatih Tunca

  • Dr. Fatih Tunca graduated from the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 1999 and received a medical doctor degree. He then undertook further training in General surgery in the same college and clinched the degree in May 2005.
  • Later on, in 1999 after the specialization, Prof. Dr. Tunca served five years in the Department of General Surgery of Istanbul Faculty of Medicine as a specialist physician. In April 2010 he joined as an Associate Professor in General Surgery at Istanbul University. He was promoted to Professor in August 2016 and keeps practicing clinically as well as undertaking academic practice in the same department.
  • The principal areas of concern of Prof. Dr. Fatih Tunca are Endocrine Surgery and Endoscopic Surgery for which he has gained profound experience over the years.
  • He completed his medical school education at the Istanbul Faculty of Medicine in 1999 and then acquired his specialization in General Surgery in 2005 at the same university. In 2010 he joined the faculty of Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine where he was promoted to Associate Professor in General Surgery.
  • He was further promoted to a Professor position in 2016, and he has been practicing clinical and academic medicine at the university.

Conditions treated by Dr. Fatih Tunca

Area of Interest

  • Endocrine Surgery
  • Endoscopic Surgery
  • Endoscopic Thyroidectomy

Qualification

  • 2005- Istanbul University, Faculty of Medicine- General Surgery Specialization Training
  • 1999- Istanbul Faculty of Medicine
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MEMBERSHIPS (1)

  • Turkish Medical Association (TMA)

RESEARCH PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS (9)

  • Nihat Aksakal, Fatih Tunca, Berke Sengum, et al. Utilization of Artificial Intelligence in Minimally Invasive Right Adrenalectomy: Recognition of Anatomical Landmarks with Deep Learning. June 2024. Acta Chirurgica Belgica. DOI:10.1080/00015458.2024.2363599.
  • Ismail Cem Sormaz, Yalin Iscan, Fatih Tunca, et al. Electrophysiologic monitoring characteristics of the non-recurrent laryngeal nerve and radiologic evaluation of concurrent vascular anomalies. April 2024. DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-4214134/v1. License CC BY 4.0.
  • Yalin Iscan, Irem Karatas, Fatih Tunca, et al. The Impact of Intraoperative Neural Monitoring During Papillary Thyroid Cancer Surgery on Completeness of Thyroidectomy and Thyroglobulin Response: A Propensity-Score Matched Study. January 2024. Acta Chirurgica Belgica. DOI:10.1080/00015458.2024.2305501.
  • Berke Sengum, Nida Kumbasar, Fatih Tunca, et al. Artificial Intelligence in Minimally Invasive Adrenalectomy: Using Deep Learning to Identify the Left Adrenal Vein. May 2023. Surgical Laparoscopy Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques Publish Ahead of Print(4). DOI:10.1097/SLE.0000000000001185.
  • Ozan Çalişkan, Nurcihan Aygun, Fatih Tunca, et al. An unusual finding after adrenal surgery: a case series of adrenal schwannomas. Frontiers in Surgery. May 2023. DOI:10.3389/fsurg.2023.1175633. License CC BY 4.0.
  • Ozgur Mete, Aysel Bayram, Fatih Tunca, et al. DICER1 Mutations Occur in More Than One-Third of Follicular-Patterned Pediatric Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas and Correlate with a Low-Risk Disease and Female Gender Predilection. October 2022. Endocrine Pathology 33(1):1-9. DOI:10.1007/s12022-022-09736-y.
  • Fatih Tunca, Ismail Cem Sormaz, Yalin Iscan, et al. Is craniocaudal dissection of recurrent laryngeal nerve safer than lateral approach: a prospective randomized study comparing both techniques by using continuous intraoperative nerve monitoring. October 2022. Annals of Surgical Treatment and Research 103(4):205. DOI:10.4174/astr.2022.103.4.205. License CC BY-NC 4.0.
  • Akif Enes Arikan, Ozer Makay, Fatih Tunca, et al. Efficacy of PET-CT in the prediction of metastatic adrenal masses that are detected on follow-up of the patients with prior nonadrenal malignancy: A nationwide multicenter case-control study. August 2022. Medicine 101(34):e30214. DOI:10.1097/MD.0000000000030214. License CC BY-NC 4.0.
  • Fatih Tunca, Nihat Aksakal, YYalin Iscan, et al. Left adrenal venous drainage into the inferior vena cava in a pheochromocytoma patient with an ectopic pelvic kidney. April 2022. DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1594569/v1. License CC BY 4.0

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Last Reviewed - January 2026

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