Ben Ghashir, Najla Saleh Balalaa, Nahed Ahmed Anam, Warda Mohamed, Rawia Mubarak
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Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is an uncommon tumor of mesenchymal origin, which can arise at any anatomic location and can exhibit versatile histological features and a clinical course ranging from benign to frankly malignant. Lipomatous (fat-forming) SFT is a morphological variant of SFT characterized by an adipose tissue component. Breast SFT is a...
Fukuta, Kyotaro Iihara, Kiyotaka Moriyama, Takahiro Nakanishi, Ryoichi Izaki, Hirofumi Kanda, Kazuya Inai, Tohru Kudo, Eiji Fukawa, Tomoya Yamaguchi, Kunihisa
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The micropapillary variant of urothelial carcinoma (MPUC) is an aggressive form of urothelial carcinoma with high metastatic potential and a poor prognosis. Although various therapies have been reported, there is still no established treatment strategy for MPUC due to its rarity. The incidence of urinary tract malignancies is higher in patients und...
Kozai, Landon Benavente, Kevin Obeidat, Adham Acoba, Jared
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) in pregnancy is rare and often presents at a late stage due to the masking of signs by pregnancy. A typical chemotherapeutic regimen for stage III and IV CRC comprised 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) and oxaliplatin. The treatment of CRC during pregnancy is complicated owing to the potential risk of teratogenicity with chemotherapy, e...
Menakuru, Sasmith R. Priscu, Adelina Khan, Ibrahim Beirat, Amir
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Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is an oncologic emergency characterized by the destruction of tumor cells leading to an influx of large amounts of uric acid, potassium, and phosphorus into systemic circulation. It most often occurs after the initiation of cytotoxic therapy in high-grade lymphomas and leukemias; however, rarely it may occur spontaneously...
Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Kumiko Ogawa, Ayumi Oda, Goshi Onishi, Iichiro Yamamoto, Masahide Mori, Mio Fujioka, Tomoyuki Ishikawa, Toshiaki Okamoto, Kentaro
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Bone marrow carcinomatosis (BMC) associated with breast cancer is a rare but often difficult-to-treat condition; we report a case of a female stage IV breast cancer patient in her seventies with BMC that improved with endocrine monotherapy. The patient had hemoglobinopenia and thrombocytopenia at the time of diagnosis. The diagnosis of BMC due to e...
Doami, Ryoki Oura, Shoji Makimoto, Shinichiro
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A 30-year-old woman was pointed out for her right axillary lymphadenopathy in a medical checkup. Ultrasonography showed two swollen lymph nodes and the presence of lymph node hilum with a convex shape in the larger lymph node. Under the tentative diagnosis of lymphadenitis, the patient was initially treated with antibiotic therapy, leading to no im...
Forero, Yency Johana Zapata Laguado, Martín Ignacio Briceño, Ximena Brugés, Ricardo Elías Contreras, Fernando
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Primary sarcomas of the breast are heterogeneous neoplasms derived from the non-epithelial elements of the mammary gland. Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors comprise 5–10% of all malignant soft tissue sarcomas. Its heterogeneity and low incidence (1 in 100,000) limit the performance of prospective studies. Therefore, most published articles i...
da Silva, Joyce Macedo Araldi, Rodrigo Pinheiro Colozza-Gama, Gabriel Avelar Pagani, Eduardo Sid, Ariye Valverde, Cristiane Wenceslau Kerkis, Irina
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Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-based therapies have been considered an attractive approach for treating Huntington’s disease (HD). However, due to the pulmonary first-passage effect associated with intravenous infusion (the most commonly used route of MSC administration), there is a rising concern that the cells could be entrapped in the lungs and gra...
Sharaf, Majd Mahmoud Al-Oudat, Yousef Maen Saifo, Maher
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Discrete extraocular muscles (EOMs) metastases are extremely rare events. Here is a case of isolated orbital metastases involving EOMs in a female patient who was previously diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. She received chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy. Years later, the patient complained of gradually progressive ptosis of the rig...
Coggan, James Morin, Adam Rao, Ruta
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Many patients with metastatic breast cancer develop liver metastases. A rare complication of this is hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS), which is associated with exertional dyspnea and intrapulmonary shunting. We present a patient who presented with HPS as a consequence of liver metastases and subsequently treated with chemotherapy leading to resolutio...
