... tumor is clearly defined Diagnostic difficulties also arise histologically as the tumors not have a consistent appearance and they can be mistaken for germ cell and sex cord stromal tumorsor ... a primary ovarian malignant melanoma from a metastatic tumor must be made Some authors [2,3] have restricted the diagnosis of primary ovarian malignant melanoma to those cases with no history ... antisense inhibitor of Bcl-2, and ‘Sorafenib’, an orally active small molecule inhibitor of wild type and mutant BRAF or PLX4032 a potent inhibitor of BRAF with the V600E mutation are at the forefront...
... mice in the PBS group had metastatic nodes in liver, spleen, or kidneys Some of the mice had tumors in all three organs (Fig 5) Importantly, there were no metastatictumors observed in the kidneys ... intervals prior and after treatment (x axis) Tumors were injected with either OncSyn, OncdSyn viruses, or PBS when tumors reached approximately 80–90 mm3 in volume Tumor volumes were measured prior to ... virotherapy to reduce metastatictumors in internal organs, a second experiment was performed in a similar fashion to the previous one with the exception that in the new experiment tumors were allowed...
... patient group Keywords: Selective intraarterial radionuclide therapy (SIRT), liver tumors, survival times Background Primaryormetastatictumors of the liver generally have poor prognosis and ... had received chemotherapy for the treatment of primarytumors Furthermore, all of them had taken chemotherapy for liver metastases and they had been accepted as refractory to chemotherapy Partial ... mainly HCC, colorectal cancer and neuroendocrine tumors; SIRT has been used for the treatment of liver metastasis of several tumors and primary hepatocellular cancer There have been different results...
... Correction: Selective intraarterial radionuclide therapy with Yttrium-90 (Y-90) microspheres for unresectable primary and metastatic liver tumors N Ozlem Kucuk¹, Cigdem ... intraarterial radionuclide therapy with Yttrium-90 (Y-90) microspheres for unresectable primary and metastatic liver tumors World J Surg Oncol 2011 Aug 6;9:86 ... Medical School, Department of Radiology, Ankara, Turkey *Corresponding author: csoydal@yahoo.com Correction After the publication of this work [1], we became aware of the fact that there was date...
... Uncontrolled tumor cell proliferation is frequent in tumor cells with the progression of a normal cell to a transformed tumor cell involving many genetic events that include the checkpoints of the cell ... vital importance to malignant neoplasms in prolonging cell survival Despite the understanding that cell cycle regulatory protein dysregulation may be involved in numerous malignanttumors [2], ... A combined immunoreactivity score was calculated by multiplying the score for the percentage x the score of intensity, resulting in a combined score that ranged from to 12 Scores and above were...
... spindle cells are dominant Spindle cells appear as uniform cells with single elongated nucleus, and narrow bipolar cytoplasm in SCL Nucleolus is not prominent Mitosis is rare Spindle cells form ... yellowish, sessile or pedicled masses They contain histologically mature, uniform adipose cells Spindlecell lipomas contain collagen fibers and small, cylindiric spindle cells and mixed mature ... lipoma at vocal cords have been reported Hypopharyngeal lipomas originating from pyriform sinus have similar symptoms and pathological features with laryngeal lipogenic tumors Laryngeal or hypopharyngeal...
... VEGF receptors in giant celltumors (GCTs) of bone Surgical specimens were fixed in formalin and serially sectioned (a) VEGF was expressed in stromal cells (arrows), monocyte-like cells (arrowheads) ... Kawano M, Sudo A, Uchida A, Ito Y: Spindle- shaped cells derived from giant -cell tumor of bone support differentiation of blood monocytes to osteoclast-like cells J Orthop Res 2000, 18:647-654 Goldring ... Papadimitriou JM: Gene expression of transforming growth factor-beta and its type II receptor in giant celltumors of bone Possible involvement in osteoclast-like cell migration Am J Pathol 1994, 145:1095-1104...
... VEGF receptors in giant celltumors (GCTs) of bone Surgical specimens were fixed in formalin and serially sectioned (a) VEGF was expressed in stromal cells (arrows), monocyte-like cells (arrowheads) ... Kawano M, Sudo A, Uchida A, Ito Y: Spindle- shaped cells derived from giant -cell tumor of bone support differentiation of blood monocytes to osteoclast-like cells J Orthop Res 2000, 18:647-654 Goldring ... Papadimitriou JM: Gene expression of transforming growth factor-beta and its type II receptor in giant celltumors of bone Possible involvement in osteoclast-like cell migration Am J Pathol 1994, 145:1095-1104...
... 5% normal goat serum (Vector Laboratories, USA) for 30 All primary antibodies were incubated with sections o overnight at C To “visualize” immunolabeling, a Table Primary antibodies used for immunohistochemical ... markers in canine Sertoli celltumors (A) Cells within the tumor resemble Sertoli cells that normally populate the seminiferous tubules and are arranged into sheets or tubules separated by fibrous ... tumor resembled Sertoli cells that normally populate the seminiferous tubules, and were arranged into sheets or tubules separated by fibrous connective tissue The tumor cells had small, round or...
... from neighboring organs or via the peritoneal route Most common primarytumors include gynecologic and gastrointestinal cancers [1,5] Other malignancies, such as breast cancer and malignant melanoma ... number not for citation purposes) World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008, 6:124 smear with a single cell population of large pleomorphic round undifferentiated pigmented malignant cells with ... Survival was poor despite aggressive surgical debulking with or without adjuvant therapy A more favorable subset of patients with metastatic ovarian involvement included gynecologic [5] or colonic...
... in of 25 (8%) patients after surgery The appearance of malignant giant celltumors of bone ormalignant foci inside benign giant celltumors has been described also in a small number of patients ... giant celltumors of the bone is complete surgical excision Especially in patients with extremity tumors, this treatment results in high local control rates of more than 85% [3] without major complications ... giant cell tumor in the sphenoid sinus suffered from large tumors in the sacral region Three tumors were judged primarily irresectable, and one patient had undergone a subtotal resection prior to...
... was intracavitary brachytherapy for superficially invasive tumors (less than mm of invasion), while interstitial brachytherapy was used for more deeply invasive tumors greater than mm Five patients ... ratio was taken to be 10 Gy for tumor effects and Gy for late effects The median EQ2 for the tumor was 66.48 Gy (31.25 – 75.4 Gy) for the entire group The median EQ2 for the late effects on vaginal ... without any prior radiation and 4/6 (67%) for group with recurrence and any prior radiation therapy No grade or worse early toxicity was observed Two patients had late grade or morbidity One patient...
... specific for the molecular environment of either the primary tumor or the metastasis The distinct genetic mutation patterns in primary and metastatic tumors, illustrate the need for much more comprehensive ... in advanced colorectal tumors, suggesting a role in metastasis formation [35] Therefore, the distinct genetic changes in metastastic samples compared to corresponding primary tumors, likely contribute ... rearrangements have head-head or tail-tail orientation (c) Lesion-specific presence of rearrangements in primary and metastatictumors as based on PCR genotyping of samples for primary tumor, metastasis and...
... to each sample prior to analysis by fluorescent microscope Using fluorescence microscope, cells seen in orange or light orange were counted as apoptotic whereas cells in green or light green were ... apoptosis-resistance and is believed to be a major reason for treatment failure in lymphoid tumors [15-19] In this report, we show that exposure of a variety of B -cell tumor cells to TW-37 is sufficient to inhibit ... medium These cells were subjected to phenotypic analysis for comparison with the established tumor cell line to insure the human origin and its stability After formation of SC tumors, serial propagation...
... and immunoprofile of spindlecell oncocytoma Spindlecell neoplasm with interlacing fascicles of spindled to epithelioid cells with eosinophilic and oncocytic cytoplasm (original magnification, ... cytokeratin or with anterior pituitary hormones, including somatotropin, corticotropin, thyrotropin, FSH, LH and prolactin (Figure 2D) Tumour cells expressed the thyroid transcription factor (TTF-1) ... folliculostellate cells Very little is known about the functioning of the folliculostellate cells Some authors have reported that these cells are implicated in long-distance communication in the anterior pituitary...
... from necrosis of the tumor causing an eosinophilotactic response, the release of chemotactic factors for eosinophils from tumor cells, the seeding of metastatic tumor cells to the bone marrow ... stimulation of bone marrow cells to produce eosinophils by eosinophilotactic factors produced by the tumor cells [13] It is not know if eosinophilia is a good or poor prognostic sign, as eosinophilia ... our knowledge, it has never been reported in the literature with a spindlecell sarcoma A number of hypotheses have been put forward regarding the etiology for eosinophilia associated with malignancy...
... cell response to column-activated malignant T cell loaded DC CD8 T cell response to column-activated malignant T cell loaded DC Fig 10A: CD8 T cells were magnetic-bead enriched (≥96% CD8+ T cells) ... Immunophenotyping In order to monitor DC differentiation, the cells were stained by two-color immunofluorescence with a panel of antibodies to monocytes, DC and apoptotic cells Cells (1 × 106) were ... CTCL cells may be lysed in the presence of CD8 T cells stimulated with DC that have ingested apoptotic malignant T cells Finally, further support for the contention that functional CD8 T cells...
... propensity for metastases [1] Fibromyxoid tumors demonstrating a proliferation of spindle fibroblastic cells are uncommonly identified in The case was referred to Stanford Pathology for an independent ... low-grade spindlecell proliferation with fibroblastic features were very rare The negative immunologic findings exclude more specific markers for smooth muscle, fat tumors, solitary fibrous tumor, ... dedifferentiated portion was indicative of an atypical lipomatous tumor (Figures &2) Conclusion We report the rare status of a patient with low-grade abdominal pelvic tumors exhibiting spindlecell and...
... giant cell tumor anterior toankleankle Sagittal T1-weighted spin-echo MRI of the right ankle showing a well delineated giant cell tumor anterior to the ankle (arrow) Microscopically, the tumor was ... a number of other tumors into account, including lipoma, ganglia or fibromas Prior to an operation, it is usually very difficult to distinguish whether the tumor is benign ormalignant In the ... composed of round to polygonal cells Some were spindle cells and some were multinucleated giant cells (Figure 2B) The diagnosis of localized tenosynovial giant cell tumor of the tendon sheath was...
... the oral cavity and oropharynx: Factors affecting outcome J Chin Med Assoc 2006, 69:478-483 Banes L, Eveson JW, Reichart P, Sidransky D, Eds: World Health Organization Classification of Tumors ... squamous cell carcinoma In some areas, spindle shape cells were transitional to the epithelial cancer nest-like structure The stromal cells were intermingled with the spindle shape cells, showing ... The cells around the materials were vimentin-positive low activity cells, and cancer cells did not show positive reaction for neither BMP-2 nor BMP-4, which indicates these materials were formed...