Case Rep Gastroenterol
September 2013
A 21-year-old man with a history of sudden rectal hemorrhage was referred to our hospital. Examination disclosed thrombocytopenia and hepatosplenomegaly. A liver biopsy specimen demonstrated Gaucher cells in Glisson's capsule.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 74-year-old woman who had previously undergone left nephrectomy because of calculi was referred to our department with a right renal mass that was detected by computed tomography (CT) during treatment for pyelonephritis. Repeated CT showed a contrast-enhanced 4.7 cm tumor close to the renal sinus, and no metastatic lesion was detected.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a first case of HIV-associated lymphoma (HAL) presenting with acute kidney injury (AKI) and inflammatory immune reconstitution syndrome (IRIS). A 39-year-old male, treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for one month prior to admission, developed AKI, left testicular tumor, and recurrent swelling of the right parotid gland. A resected testicular tumor exhibited features intermediate between diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and Burkitt lymphoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMyoepithelial carcinoma of the breast is extremely rare and only 33 cases have been reported in the English literature. Herein, we report a case of myoepithelial carcinoma of the breast with focal rhabdoid features. The patient was a 67-year-old woman, who presented with a lump of the left breast that rapidly grew to 3 cm in diameter within 3 months.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 52-year-old man suffering from monocular blindness, with light perception only, was admitted to our hospital. The symptom had begun as low vision and developed rapidly within 3 weeks into monocular blindness in the right eye, with no other systemic manifestations. Imaging examinations revealed multiple hepatocellular carcinomas in the cirrhotic liver, and tumors at the skull base and vertebra.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 37-year-old male was referred with a huge renal mass and multiple lung lesions. Abdominal and chest computed tomographic scan revealed a 11×15×17. 5 cm right renal tumor and multiple lung metastases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe describe a 62-year-old woman with advanced chronic hepatitis C who showed no response to low-dose long-term interferon-beta monotherapy (3 MU, three times a week). The interferon monotherapy was continued for 2 years and 9 months. Despite this lack of response to interferon, the patient's clinical course was good and liver function assessed by (99m)Tc-galactosyl human serum albumin single photon emission computed tomography ((99m)Tc-GSA SPECT) analysis improved significantly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 70-year-old man complained of fever and sore throat accompanied by hoarseness of voice. On physical examination, there was no systemic abnormality but a mild lymphadenopathy of cervical lymph nodes. With laryngoscopy, there was a marked outgrowth of the bilateral palatine tonsils proximal to the vocal cord.
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