... (3) the location of the impact and the occur-rence of the tumor corresponded exactly one to the other; and (4) there was a more than one year interval between trauma and the appearance of the ... confirma-tion. These criteria were established in the pre-CT (computed tomography) era. The recent cases of posttraumatic glioma that have been reported show CT scans at the time of the trauma ... 2. The below must be severe enough to cause brain contusion and a secondary reparative process. 3. The location of the impact and the tumor should correspond exactly one to the other. 4. There...
... minutes, which then switched to the opposite polarity for another 11.5 minutes. The device was designed to switch the di-rection of current flow halfway through the cycle. The resulting cycle ... device, and their wounds were markedly healed (30-100%). The patients either reduced their medication or com-pletely stopped after the course of treatment. No side effects were reported. The mecha-nism ... Studies from the 1980s suggest that microcurrent therapy is effective at relieving the side effects of radiation therapy (25). The investigators have found that direct electrical therapy was...
... fluoroscopy, the entry site was then determined and a 3/4-inch incision was made at a 30-degree angle to the vertebrae. Through this incision, a guide wire was inserted down to the lamina of the stenotic ... Results The author acknowledges that there are no con-flicts of interest or financial benefits with the results of the study. All twelve patients (10 males, 2 females) completed the surgery ... treated with conservative therapy, in-cluding physical therapy and epidural steroid injec-tions, which failed to provide adequate relief. The surgery commenced as follows: The patient was properly...
... of the plate repels the water. From the ink fountain the ink passes a number of ink rollers before reaching the plate cylinder with the plate. The ink sticks to the ink-accepting parts and the ... from the printed paper scope as the product purpose are different, the requirements on the used material are different from the other products in the scope (magazines, books etc.). The Paper ... bags. As the materials are the same in this product group as in the printed paper product group, this document only deals with thebackground that is specific for these products. The background...
... asked about whether they have felt uncomfortable after spraying during the last cropping season. There were 46% of them in Hanoi city and 65% of those in Thai Binh province reported directly ... Binh province Number of applicators reported 17 1 17 There were 19 people or 7.5% of respondents (18 in Thai Binh province) reported that they had to stop their working at 2.8 times and lost ... risk in total respondents in the sub-sample. The numbers of people who perceived that pesticide caused risks to other groups were less than those perceived by the applicator group. Pesticide...
... nodes. There is a mortality rate of 67% in patients with lymph nodemetastases. Although rare, the occurrence of distant metastases has been reported.We report a case of patient with EPC of the ... electrochemotherapy (ECT).EPC is an unusual tumor to diagnose. Neither chemotherapy nor radiation therapy has been proven to be ofclinical benefit in treating metastatic disease. Although in the current ... lymph nodes [9]. There is a mortality rateof 67% in patients with lymph node metas tases [13].Although rare, the occurrence of distant metastases hasbeen reported [5].We report a case of patient...
... patients. The advent of new therapies may have implications forfurther possible treatment in patients with advanced orrecurrent disease. This therefore raises the question asto whether the diagnosis ... gastrointestinal tumours [1].In the last decade studies have discovered that nearly allGISTs are characterised by the expression of the c-kitreceptor (CD117), as is their cell of origin, the intersti-tial ... NT and PD guarantee the integrity of the entire study. PS, PC, NT and PDdeveloped the study concepts and design. PS undertook the literatureresearch. BA and PC performed the histological studies....
... inthree cases and no staining in o ne case. The VC shifteddownwards in three cases, upwards in one case, laterallyin four cases and no shift was observed in two cases. The blood supply to the tumor ... resultsOut of the ten cases whose meningiomas were removed,six cases originated from the pineal region and fourcases originated from the dura of the origin of straightsinus. In eight cases, the VC ... meningiomasarederivedfromtheconnectivetissueofthepinealgland or the velum interpositum. It is usually not adher-ent to the dura [20], whereas the secondary tumors ori-ginate from the dura of the origin of the...
... contributionsKLC was the first author, responsible for the conception and design for the manuscript, the clinical work, the search for the literature, and the editingwork.SHU was responsible for the histopathological ... CCLhelped in the clinical work as well as the literature review. STP and SKL wereresponsible for editorship of the manuscript. CKC is the head of the department who supervised all the steps of the work.Competing ... st a i n i n gon the other area of the section reveals some b-HCGpositive syniotrophoblastic cells in the sea of othertumor cells (fig. 4). Initial b-HCG and AFP levels in the blood were 2,630...
... in a case of recurrent metastatic GIST that failed extensivesurgical therapy and chemotherapy [21]. The dramaticresponse in their case was documented both clinicallyand histologically. They ... into the abdominal cavity.Figure 4 Demonstration of the resection of segmental bowel; the tumor was removed with a part of 3-cm of the smallintestine.Figure 5 The surgical specimen of the small ... 8:95http://www.wjso.com/content/8/1/95Page 3 of 7was removed outside the pelvis by the pregnant uterus.For the same reason the patient might hav e tolerated the high pressure during labor and the tumor did not staredbleeding...
... contributed to the concept of this case report, supervised the work and drafts of thecasereport prepared by the first and second authors.All authors read and approved the final version of the article ... firstreportofamonophasicsynovial sarcoma in the inguinal region. We report thisunusual case because of the tumor location and patient’sold age. Thecase illustrates p ossible differential diag-noses before the treatment. ... was diagnosed while the other most likely diagnosis of a sarcomatoid mesothe-lioma was excluded.For personal reasons, the patient refused to receiveany chemotherapy after the operation. Unfortunately,lung...
... But in the 6th case reported by a Japanesegroup[6], the chief complaint was severe anemia causedby duodenal bleeding because the hemolymphangiomaof the pancreas invaded to the duodenum. This ... Journal of Surgical OncologyOpen Access Case report A giant hemolymphangioma of the pancreas in a 20-year-old girl: a report of one case and review of the literatureLi-Feng Sun1, Hui-Lin Ye2, ... author Abstract Background: Hemolymphangioma of the pancreas is a very rare benign tumor. There were onlysix reports of this disease until December 2008. Herein, we report a case of gianthemolymphangioma...
... equally in the design of the paper and in the study of the clinical and radiologicaldata. LM, FDN and SL participated in the study of macro-scopic and microscopic features of the lesion, in the design ... establish the prognosticfactors related to localization and size of the EGIST and toevaluate the impact of the molecular characterization asan outcome parameter related to the molecular targetedtherapy. ... the lesion, in the design of the study and in the drafting of the manuscript.SL revised critically the final version of the manuscript. Allauthors read and approved the final manuscript.AcknowledgementsWritten...
... eradication treatment, the median time from the end of the therapy to the demonstration of remissionwas 8 weeks. If there were not signs of initial or completeresponse at the first endoscopic ... response to chemotherapy/radiotherapy two months after the end of eradicationtherapy. Hiyama et al., [16] extended the follow-up to sixmonths from the end of eradication therapy, at that pointpatients ... 22cases it was obtained in prospective trials. Chen et al., [7]reported 14 cases, Nakamura et al., [10] 5 cases, Hiyama etal., [16] 2 cases and Alpen et al., [22] 1 case. DiscussionIn the...
... conceived the idea of thecasereport and helped with the draft of it. AS,SC and AD helped the draft of thecase report. MM andLMR performed the molecular analyses. NM performed the radiological ... with thecase reported in this study.We report a lesion localized in the soft tissues of the shoulder not involving the bone which is not typical in lit-erature for both the position and the ... from the patient for publi-cation of this case report. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests.Authors' contributionsDM prepared the draft of case report. ...