Kawashima, Atsunari Nakayama, Masashi Oka, Daizo Sato, Mototaka Hatano, Koji Mukai, Masatoshi Nagahara, Akira Nakai, Yasutomo Takayama, Hitoshi Inoue, Masayoshi
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BackgroundPulmonary metastasectomy in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) remains controversial. The purpose of our analysis was to explore the outcome of patients with RCC who underwent pulmonary metastasectomy at our institution.MethodsWe reviewed data on 25 patients who underwent resection of lung metastasis from 1998 to 2008 at our institu...
Lou, Weizhen Cao, Dongyan Yang, Jiaxin Guo, Lina Shen, Keng
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The management of the retiform variant of Sertoli–Leydig cell tumor remains a challenge for the gynecologist. Surgery is the preferred treatment, but it is still inconclusive whether complete staging or postoperative adjuvant therapy is necessary. A 9-year-old girl was admitted with a well-circumscribed, solid cystic mass in the lower abdomen, of s...
Kobayashi, Minoru Nukui, Akinori Suzuki, Kazumi Kurokawa, Shinsuke Morita, Tatsuo
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BackgroundPrimary hormonal therapy has been mostly used for patients with advanced prostate cancer, as international guidelines do not recommend its use for patients at earlier disease stages. However, there seems to be a discrepancy between the guideline recommendations and clinical practice on the use of primary androgen deprivation therapy for l...
Hahn, Suk Jae Oh, Jin Young Kim, Jeung Sook Kim, Do Yeun
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Cisplatin-based therapy is associated with various toxicities, including renal failure and neuropathy. However, acute arterial thrombosis is also a possible toxic effect of cisplatin, one that has been documented in a few cases worldwide. Here we present a rare case of ascending aortic thrombosis occurring 9 days after cisplatin-based chemotherapy ...
Zhao, Yushi Li, Ye Wang, Shengfa Lu, Hongguang Chen, Jianxin Zhang, Zhijie Jin, Yubin Zhu, Zhong-Zheng
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BackgroundThe prognosis of lung cancer remains poor and clinically applicable prognostic markers have not yet been satisfactory identified. Several chromosomal copy number alterations (CNAs) have been associated with metastasis, relapse, and survival of patients with lung cancer; however, no study has focused exclusively on identifying CNAs at a ge...
Marchetti, Claudia Manci, Natalina Di Maurizio, Marco Di Tucci, Chiara Burratti, Moira Iuliano, MariaLetizia Giorgini, Margherita Salerno, Laura Benedetti Panici, Pierluigi
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Reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (RLH) is a rare, benign, lymphocytic tumour-like lesion reported in various organs. It has been previously identified in 18 cases in the English-language literature, but only 5 of them were related to oncological disease. No previous cases have been described of RLH occurring in ovarian cancer patients. We describe a c...
Mota, Patrícia Caetano Reis, Carina Pires, Nuno Filipe Sousa, Graça Chamadoira, Clara Guimarães, Marcos Castro, Lígia Marques, Margarida Gomes, Isabel
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The authors describe a case of a 47-year-old male smoker with a 3-month history of hearing loss, tinnitus and dizziness. Physical examination revealed neurosensory hearing loss. Small rounded hypodensities without mass effect were evident in a computed tomography scan of the head, confirmed by brain magnetic resonance imaging as multiple cystic les...
Hayashi, Mitsuhiro Okumura, Yasuhiro Osako, Tomofumi Toyozumi, Yasuo Arima, Nobuyuki Iwase, Hirotaka Nishimura, Reiki
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BackgroundTrastuzumab demonstrates significant clinical benefits in HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (MBC), and recent clinical trials suggest that trastuzumab should be continued in combination with other chemotherapy beyond progression. There is an urgent need to assess if patients could substantially benefit from continuing trastuzumab-bas...
Muraoka, Takayuki Tsukuda, Kazunori Toyooka, Shinichi Kagawa, Shunsuke Naomoto, Yoshio Takemoto, Mitsuhiro Katsui, Kuniaki Kanazawa, Susumu Maki, Yuho Masuda, Hiroko
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Enteritis is one of the side effects of radiotherapy to the abdominal cavity. Radiation enteritis involves damage to mucous membranes in the acute phase and to stromal tissues in the late phase. Perforation of the intestine tends to occur in the late phase, and rarely in the acute phase. However, we describe here a case of intestinal perforation oc...
Masago, Toshihiko Watanabe, Takeshi Nemoto, Ryosuke Motoda, Kinya
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We describe interstitial pneumonitis induced by bicalutamide prescribed to treat prostate cancer. A 78-year-old man with severe lower paralysis and a bladder/rectal disorder was referred to our hospital. Prostate-specific antigen was elevated to 1418 ng/mL at that time and magnetic resonance imaging revealed multiple bone metastases. A rectal exami...
