Winer, Ira Buckanovich, Ronald J.
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Case Reports in Oncology
Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a rare tumor syndrome that can be diagnosed in association with mucinous ovarian tumors of low malignant potential. Surgical debulking is the primary treatment modality as chemotherapy has generally proven ineffective in this slowly progressive tumor. When patients with PMP are not surgical candidates, there is no ef...
Weingertner, Anne Sophie Wilt, Marc Atallah, Ihab Fohrer, Cécile Mauvieux, Laurent Rodier, Jean-François
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Case Reports in Oncology
The development of acute myeloid leukaemia after low-dose radioiodine therapy and its presentation as a myeloid sarcoma of the uterine cervix are both rare events. We report a case of acute myeloid leukaemia revealed by a myeloid sarcoma of the uterine cervix in a 48-year-old woman, 17 months after receiving a total dose of 100 mCi 131I for papilla...
Athanassiou, Evangelos Spyridakis, Michail Karasavvidou, Fotini Vamvakopoulou, Dimitra Karaiskou, Evangelia Vamvakopoulos, Nikolaos Theodosiou, Paraskevi Hatzitheofilou, Constantinos
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Case Reports in Oncology
We present the case of a female patient admitted to our University Hospital with acute abdominal pain mimicking an intraperitoneal septic condition caused possibly by acute appendicitis. CT and ultrasound scan showed a mass situated in the right iliac fossa. The patient was submitted to laparotomy and right hemicolectomy. The operative findings wer...
Hasskarl, Jens Schroettner, Percy von den Berg, Andrea Rueckert, Anja Frydrychowicz, Alex Kayser, Gian Waller, Cornelius F.
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Case Reports in Oncology
Organizing pneumonia (formerly known as bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia, BOOP) is an inflammatory process of the bronchioles that can lead to the destruction of small airways and surrounding lung tissue. Although the majority of cases are idiopathic, certain chemicals and drugs can induce OP. Here, we report a 54-year-old male patient...
Williams, Laura Markman, Maurie
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Case Reports in Oncology
The relatively rapid development of a platinum-associated hypersensitivity reaction in an ovarian cancer patient receiving second-line chemotherapy more than a decade following her last course of primary platinum-based chemotherapy demonstrates that the prolonged persistence of immune cells recognizing platinum after sensitization has been establis...
Dacso, Mara Soldano, Anthony C. Talbott, L.Brent Reichenberg, Jason S.
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Case Reports in Oncology
Recurrent lobular breast carcinoma manifesting as a cutaneous neck nodule in a woman, 14 years after successful chemotherapy, illustrates the importance of following at-risk patients with a high level of clinical suspicion. This case emphasizes the value of combining clinical findings with appropriate histopathologic and immunohistochemical analysi...
Babel, Nitin Paragi, Prakash Chamberlain, Ronald Scott
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Perforation of the small intestine is the most lethal complication following induction chemotherapy for enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL). We report a case of EATL with a near perforated jejunal ulcer, and suggest a novel approach towards its management. Surgical resection followed by aggressive chemotherapy should limit chemotherapy-as...
Laforga Canales, Juan B. Gasent Blesa, Joan M.
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Case Reports in Oncology
Epithelioid cell tumors presenting in the gastrointestinal tract are uncommon, but when they arise, arriving at a correct diagnosis is important. We report a case of anal malignant melanoma in an 82-year-old man who microscopically showed an epithelioid malignant tumor simulating a gastrointestinal stromal tumor. C-kit stain and Melan-A were diffus...
Katz, Artur Calabrich, Aknar dos Santos Fernandes, Gustavo Sakis Novis, Yana Augusta
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Case Reports in Oncology
In this case report, we describe a rare case of a 32-year-old man who presented a highly aggressive, fast growing anaplastic oligodendroglioma five years after being treated with whole brain radiotherapy for a CNS recurrence of a lymphoblastic lymphoma. Initially, the patient was submitted to a surgical intervention and partial tumor resection, whi...
Driscoll, James J. Gauerke, Steven Monahan, Brian C.
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Hidradenocarcinomas are rare, aggressive adnexal tumors of sweat gland origin that demonstrate a high potential for local recurrence, metastasis and poor outcome. These neoplasms can derive from preexisting clear cell hidradenomas, but more commonly appear de novo with the molecular events responsible for the pathogenesis currently unknown. Molecul...
