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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that occurs concurrent with a diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is rare, but the number of cases recognized has recently dramatically increased as a result of the application of flow cytometry. This raises a series of questions regarding the...
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PMID: 21763630
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Our results confirm international findings indicating worse outcomes from bilateral compared with unilateral breast cancer.
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PMID: 21093260
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We present hereby a man with hyperthyroidism due to a thyroid toxic adenoma, who was subjected to surgery and incidentally found to have a papillary thyroid microcarcinoma on the contralateral thyroid lobe. By reviewing the literature, incidental thyroid carcinoma in patients subjected to thyroidect...
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PMID: 21361725
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Pelvic schwannomas are rare; it is even more rare for a pelvic schwannoma to occur concurrently with a colon cancer. The authors report the case of a 62-year-old woman with a cecal mass that was surgically removed and the histopathologic diagnosis was adenocarcinoma of the colon. Meanwhile, aretroper...
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PMID: 21476379
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We present a case report of a synchronous squamous cell carcinoma in both tonsils of the oropharynx without neck metastasis. Furthermore, we indicate that synchronous cancers are not that rare, and that special care should be taken when examining a patient with a squamous cell carcinoma of the oroph...
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PMID: 21129320
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We report a rare case of a collision between a gastric cancer and a malignant lymphoma with a wide systemic metastasis, combined with esophagus cancer, stomach cancer and malignant lymphoma. A 73-year-old man complained of gross hematuria and swelling of the right testis. Magnetic resonance imaging...
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PMID: 21160264
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Hirokazu H Urushiyama,
Yasuhiro Y Yamauchi,
Satoshi S Suzuki,
Mitsuhiro M Sunohara,
Tadashi T Kouyama,
Nobuya N Ohishi,
Takeshi T Fukami,
Jun J Nakajima,
Tetsuo T Ushiku,
Satoshi S Oota,
Masashi M Fukayama and
Takahide T Nagase
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We performed bronchoscopy to evaluate the occlusion of the right B1 bronchus, and recognized a polypoid lesion. Transbronchial tumor biopsy specimens revealed squamous cell lung carcinoma. A right upper lobectomy and drainage of the hilar and mediastinal lymph regions were performed. Histopathologic...
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PMID: 21141059
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We studied a 58-year-old woman in whom a keratinizing squamous cell carcinoma of the ovary had arisen from a mucinous cystic tumor of endocervical (müllerian) type. The tumor was interpreted initially as a transitional cell carcinoma of the ovary with marked squamous differentiation, but there was...
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PMID: 20881861
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We present the clinicopathologic features of the second case of cellular blue nevus arising in the myometrium. The patient was a 48-year-old woman who underwent a hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy for uterine leiomyomas. On gross examination, the uterus showed a subserosal, 1.0×0.5...
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PMID: 20881851
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We report a case of primary squamous cell carcinoma of the salpinx (PSCCS) with immunohistochemical and molecular studies to evaluate the phenotype and define the etiopathogenesis of this neoplasm. A 77-year-old woman, 38 years postmenopausal, was admitted to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecol...
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PMID: 20881860
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M M Muro,
T T Yoshioka,
H H Idani,
H H Sasaki,
S S Asami,
K K Nakano,
H H Nojima,
S S Kubo,
Y Y Kurose,
K K Kumano,
H H Kin and
N N Takakura
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A 74-year-old man was admitted to our hospital in order to treat a mediastinal mass and 2 ground-glass attenuations in the right upper lobe detected by chest X-ray and computed tomography (CT). Partial resection of right lung and thymectomy were performed. The mediastinal mass and 2 ground-glass att...
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PMID: 21066854
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We present here a 60-year-old female case of synchronous occurrence of gastric high-level intraepithelial neoplasia and GIST with the features of 22 similar cases and detailed information reported in the English-language literature summarized. In the present patient, epithelial neoplasia and GIST we...
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PMID: 20954290
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Extramammary Paget's disease (EMPD) is a rare cutaneous malignancy accounting for approximately 1% of vulvar cancers. The rarity of this disease has caused difficulties in its characterization. Controversies exist in the literature regarding many aspects of this condition including the prevalence of...
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PMID: 20883922
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Oral precancerous lesions may be solitary or multifocal, the latter being difficult to manage because of extensive field change. The aim of this study was to characterise differences in clinicopathological features, proliferative labelling indexes for cyclin A, cyclin B1, and Ki67, and clinical outc...
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PMID: 19800717
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Among 659 resected lung cancer cases from 1994 to 2009, 57 secondary lung cancers (8.6%) were evaluated. The secondary tumors were synchronous, located in the same lobe in 10, the ipsilateral different lobe in 17, and the contralateral lobe in 13, or metachronous, located in the contralateral lobe i...
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PMID: 20954350
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Our patient responded quickly to propanolol, with a clinical response within few days. Literature describes reduced size and changes in the colour of hemangiomas within 24-48 hours. Our experience is in line with that reported in the literature. Propanolol treatment of this patient group has only be...
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PMID: 20882080
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We evaluated the effect of sulindac on colon tumorigenesis in the Apc(Min/+) mouse model. Sulindac (180 ppm) given in drinking water for 9 weeks to Apc(Min/+) mice significantly reduced the size of colon tumors, but actually caused an increase in colon tumor multiplicity relative to untreated contro...
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PMID: 20716632
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We describe, a 74-year-old woman, presented with a 2 months' history of lower abdominal pain and episodic intestinal subocclusion due to a complex pelvic mass. The mass consisted predominantly of a Brenner tumor associated with struma ovarii containing a single small island of thyroid tissue that ha...
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PMID: 20532676
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We report three additional cases of inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver diagnosed by liver biopsy. Two of these cases were treated successfully with antibiotics. The other case, who was resistant to medical treatment, had coexisting neuroendocrine neoplasms of the rectum and the lung. Since her ge...
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PMID: 20931439
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors and adenocancers are distinct neoplasms originating from different cell layers. Though adenocancers constitute the most common type of gastric tumors, synchronous development of a gastrointestinal stromal tumor is extremely rare. Case 1: A 63-year-old male patient und...
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PMID: 20931437
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We discuss an unusual case of a large cystic mass arising in the left upper quadrant of a 48-year-old woman. Radiological investigations could not confirm the origin or the nature of the mass. A laparatomy revealed a large retroperitoneal cystic mass sandwiched between the left adrenal, spleen and t...
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PMID: 20573313
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We report a case of multiple ovarian fibromas in a 23 year old woman with Gorlin syndrome. We describe the US and MR imaging features with pathological correlation. The fibrous component of the tumors were hypoechoic and attenuating on US with corresponding T2W hypointensity whereas myxoid component...
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PMID: 20814383
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Intraductal carcinoma of the prostate (IDCP) involving prostatic ducts and acini is a well-known phenomenon typically seen in a background of high-grade invasive prostatic adenocarcinoma. The current case of prostatic adenocarcinoma with Gleason score of 9 (4 + 5) invades the ejaculatory ducts, left...
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PMID: 20444733
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We report an unusual case of a recurrent laryngeal vascular leiomyoma in a 64-year-old woman who also had a concurrent parathyroid adenoma and a history of breast carcinoma. A surgical resection via an external approach along with laser resection of a small glottic component was needed....
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PMID: 20737377
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Previous publications and utilisation of risk models for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation identification suggests that multiple primary disease in an individual is a strong predictor of a BRCA1/2 mutation and that this is more predictive than the same cancers occurring in close relatives.
This study assesse...
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PMID: 20472656
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We report two cases of a 65-year-old man with duplicity of colonic and lung adenocarcinomas who presented with swelling of the left parotid gland, and of a 75-year-old man who presented with swelling of the right parotid gland. Microscopical and immunohistochemical examination showed metastasis of l...
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PMID: 19625134
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The rates of overall survival, HPC-specific survival, HPC recurrence-free survival, and local control with laryngeal voice preservation for the 77 patients at 5 years were 47%, 74%, 57%, and 70%, respectively. The survival rates were not affected by the patient characteristics or treatment factors,...
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PMID: 19910141
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We report a case of a 70-year-old female with the simultaneous presence of MALT lymphoma and tumorlet in the middle lobe of the right lung. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of such a collision tumor at the same anatomical site.
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PMID: 20189728
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We compared IGH VDJ sequences in 4 patients with 2 sequential sites of MALT lymphoma. The specimen pairs were stomach and nasopharynx, stomach and lung, ocular adnexa and nasopharynx, and ocular adnexa and parotid gland. The median interval between biopsies was 4 months (range, 1-32 months). Monoclo...
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PMID: 20551275
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Familial nonmultiple endocrine neoplasia medullary thyroid cancer accounts for 10% to 15% of hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma and is characterized by lack of accompanying endocrine or nonendocrine diseases. Simultaneous occurrence of medullary and papillary thyroid carcinoma in the same patien...
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PMID: 20463576
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We report the case of a newborn with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome presenting the simultaneous occurrence of a cystic pancreatoblastoma and an adrenal neuroblastoma. Surgery was required to treat the pancreatoblastoma, and a "wait and see" policy was adopted for the neuroblastoma, which spontaneously...
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PMID: 20495482
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We present a case of a 60-year-old female with sarcoid reactions in the spleen identified during the consecutive diagnosis and management of ovarian, breast, and thyroid carcinomas during a period of about 2 years. The symptoms and laboratory data suggestive of systemic sarcoidosis were absent excep...
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PMID: 21319598
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We retrospectively compared the localization of abnormal accumulation in the gastrointestinal tract, standardized uptake value (SUV) max (1 hour), and the final clinical diagnosis. The site of abnormal accumulation was the esophagus in 1 case, the stomach in 8 and the small intestine to large intest...
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PMID: 20684209
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Mucosal lymphoid follicles reportedly do not occur in normal gastric mucosa or are rare. Detection of many primary and occasional secondary lymphoid follicles in the otherwise normal mucosa of a patient with multiple gastric sarcomas prompted study of the lesions of 84 patients--30 males and 54 fema...
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PMID: 20505498
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We performed a Sistrunk operation and a total thyroidectomy. Histopathological examination of the specimen revealed papillary carcinoma arising in the TGDC and papillary microcarcinoma of the thyroid gland without extrathyroidal extension. Surgeons should be aware of TGDC carcinoma during surgical p...
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PMID: 20499433
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We report on a case of unilateral absence of a pulmonary artery that was complicated by contralateral primary lung cancer. We performed a right middle lobectomy despite the absence of the left pulmonary artery and detected changes in respiratory function during the operation. The present case provid...
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PMID: 20609736
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Myxomas are the most common benign tumors of the heart. This study presents single-institutional 22 years experience on cardiac myxomas. The records of 9756 consecutive cases of open heart surgery between 1985 and 2007 revealed 0.23% myxoma. Age ranged between 12 and 77 years and male to female rati...
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PMID: 20042418
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Cellular neurothekeomas are relative uncommon benign dermal tumors of uncertain histogenesis. Most commonly they arise as a solitary papule or nodule on the head and neck or upper trunk of young adults with a slight female predominance. There has been only 1 previous report of multiple neurothekeoma...
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PMID: 20571347
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Primary ovarian malignant melanomas are extremely rare. The wide range of morphologic appearances assumed by melanomas in the ovary can cause considerable difficulty in diagnosis. The clinicopathologic features of 4 definite and 1 probable primary ovarian melanomas are presented. The patients ranged...
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PMID: 18794169
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Median patient survival was 52 months (95% confidence interval, 9-95 months) and the 5-year survival was 27%. The univariate analysis yielded no significant prognostic factor. Four out of six patients who had lymph node metastases developed tumour recurrence. CONCLUSION: In view of encouraging survi...
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PMID: 20519754
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The classic, combined, or reverse surgical strategies in patients with synchronous presentation of CLM are associated with similar outcomes. The reverse strategy can be considered as an alternative option in patients with advanced CLM and an asymptomatic primary.
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PMID: 20510802
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We report a girl with history of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1) who presented with a PMA located in the left lateral ventricle. Despite the fact that most of PMAs occur in the hypothalamic region, high awareness should be given to lesions in unusual locations, thus expanding the current epidemiolog...
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PMID: 20496528
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The entire stomach should be examined with particular care during endoscopy procedures, especially when endoscopic resections of tumors are to be performed. Further, to improve detection, the approaches used to evaluate patients for multifocal tumors need to be improved. A large-scale prospective st...
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PMID: 20381041
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BACKGROUND: Cavernous hemangioma is a frequent and the most common, primary, benign tumor of the orbit in adults. It is typically single and unilateral, considered not to recur after having been completely excised. Multiple orbital cavernous hemangiomas without signs of hemangiomatosis are rare. Mul...
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PMID: 20629431
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A twenty-six-year-old woman with a two-year history of an erythematous, scaly lesion on the left nipple was being followed up by her gynecologist and treated using a topical corticoid for chronic eczema albeit with no improvement. She was referred to this department where a diagnosis of Paget's dise...
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PMID: 20676471
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A 69-year-old man was admitted for resection of rectal adenocarcinoma diagnosed by colonoscopy. Preoperative computed tomography scan and abdominal ultrasonography revealed bilateral renal tumors measuring up to 2 and 2.8 cm in largest diameter, respectively. The patient underwent partial colectomy...
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PMID: 21086735
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We present magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings and clinical course of a unique case of primary cutaneous ES/PNET presenting as numerous huge masses with severe ulceration on them....
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PMID: 20151121
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