Han, Jiheun Kim, Hyun-Soo
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Minimal uterine serous carcinomas (MUSCs) include serous carcinomas with invasion confined to the endometrium (superficial serous carcinoma) and those without stromal invasion (serous endometrial intraepithelial carcinoma). Although these tumors are confined to the endometrium proper, they have highly metastatic potential for disseminating to extra...
Georgescu, Mihai Teodor Georgescu, Dragos Eugen Georgescu, Teodor Florin Serbanescu, Luiza Georgia
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Adenocarcinoma and adenosquamous carcinoma (AS) are 2 rare histological types of cervix uteri cancer constituting almost 20% of all cervix cancers, leading to a lack in patient management guidelines. We report the case of a 32-year-old woman with an oligometastatic cervix AS for which a multimodal treatment approach was used. Despite the patient’s ...
Muroyama, Yuki Tamiya, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Goh Tanaka, Wakae Huang, Alexander C. Oldridge, Derek A. Matsusaka, Keisuke Takazawa, Yutaka Jo, Taisuke Ushiku, Tetsuo
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Lung hepatoid adenocarcinoma (HAC) is a rare primary lung carcinoma pathologically characterized by hepatocellular carcinoma-like tumor cells, the majority of which produce alpha-fetoprotein (AFP). The clinical prognosis of lung HAC is generally poor, and effective therapeutic regimens for inoperable or recurrent cases have not been established. He...
Hwang, Inwoo Lee, Jiyeon Choi, Kyue-Hee Han, Jiheun Kim, Hyun-Soo
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Misdiagnosis of endocervical adenocarcinoma (EAC) as endometrial endometrioid carcinoma (EEC) is one of the major concerns when evaluating endometrial curettage specimens. It is difficult to differentiate EAC involving the endometrium from EEC, particularly when the specimens have only a few small tumor fragments. We report a case of endocervical a...
Kohla, Samah Ibrahim, Feryal Bilal, Ilham Al Kuwari, Einas Al-Sabbagh, Ahmad
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Gamma-delta (γδ) T-cell lymphomas are very rare and aggressive neoplasms. We describe here a challenging case of γδ T-cell neoplasm composed of γδ mature T-cells and γδ precursor T-cells with marked eosinophilia that is inapplicable to the current 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) classification. A 3-year-old female child who was presented with ...
Araya, Tomoyuki Kita, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Hiroki Sakai, Tamami Kimura, Hideharu Kasahara, Kazuo
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A standard chemotherapy regimen for advanced thymic carcinoma has not yet been established. We treated 2 cases of thymic carcinoma with carboplatin plus nanoparticle albumin-bound (nab)-paclitaxel, and nab-paclitaxel maintenance therapy. The first case was a 68-year-old female, admitted for dyspnea and left shoulder pain. Chest computed tomography ...
Kobayashi, Erika Masuda, Takeshi Nakao, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Kakuhiro Sakamoto, Shinjiro Horimasu, Yasushi Miyamoto, Shintaro Nakashima, Taku Iwamoto, Hiroshi Fujitaka, Kazunori
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The incidence of central nervous system metastasis is known to be high among patients with lung cancer. The frequency of brain metastasis and carcinomatous meningitis during the entire clinical course of non-small cell lung cancer is reported to be about 40% and 5%, respectively. In contrast, the incidence of cranial nerve metastasis is extremely r...
Aoki, Shuntaro Yasui, Masato Tajirika, Hironao Terao, Hideyuki Funahashi, Makoto Ohta, Junichi
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An 85-year-old female was admitted to our hospital for left ureteral cancer and para-aortic lymph node metastasis. To control hematuria, a laparoscopic retroperitoneal nephroureterectomy was performed, and papillary urothelial carcinoma (pT3b) was found. To treat para-aortic lymph node metastasis, she received chemotherapy with gemcitabine and neda...
Kato, Hirotaka Mitani, Yasuyuki Goda, Taro Ueno, Masaki Hayami, Shinya Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Kounami, Shinji Ichikawa, Takayuki Yamaue, Hiroki
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A huge abdominal cystic lesion with ascites was detected in a male neonate at 31 weeks of gestation. Increasing ascites and the appearance of subcutaneous edema were detected, which caused fetal hydrops. The patient was delivered by emergency cesarean section at 33 weeks of gestation. The birth weight was 2,407 g, and the Apgar score was 8/9 points...
Hanai, Takahiro Kawahara, Takashi Ishida, Hiroaki Kuroda, Shinnosuke Miyai, Toshitaka Yasui, Masato Aoki, Shuntaro Uemura, Hiroji
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Ureteral stent encrustation is sometimes encountered, especially in cases in which a ureteral stent has been forgotten. An 84-year-old female patient with malignant myeloma underwent metallic ureteral stent insertion to treat malignant ureteral obstruction. At the time of scheduled ureteral stent exchange, the stent was heavily encrusted and could ...
