Introduction: Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is rare in immunocompetent patients. We present the case of a 44-year-old female with IA invading the lungs, mediastinum, heart, and brain, with a disease duration of 11 years.
Case Presentation: The patient was initially diagnosed with lung aspergillosis that had invaded the mediastinum on October 8, 2008.
Background: Accurate determination of the types of lymphadenopathy is of great importance in disease diagnosis and treatment and is usually confirmed by pathological findings. Radiomics is a non-invasive tool that can extract quantitative information from medical images. Our study was designed to develop a non-invasive radiomic approach based on multiphase contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) images for the classification of different types of lymphadenopathy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGastric adenocarcinoma with enteroblastic differentiation is a specific subtype of gastric cancer that is rare and highly malignant, usually presenting at an early stage with lymphovascular invasion, lymph node, and distant metastases, resulting in a poor prognosis. The pathology of this patient showed a classic tubular adenocarcinoma infiltrating into the mucosal layer, with the presence of cytoplasmic translucent tumor cells below the mucosal layer. It is noteworthy that this patient did not exhibit lymphovascular invasion, lymph node, and distant metastasis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Mucosal-associated lymphoid tissue extranodal marginal zone (MALT) lymphoma is a low-grade tumor that rarely occurs in the urinary bladder. There is currently no consensus on the common imaging findings or most appropriate treatment in MALT lymphoma in the urinary bladder due to the limited number of reports.
Case Summary: A 48-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with a 1-year history of macroscopic hematuria.
Aims And Background: Thyroid transcription factor-1 (TTF-1) expression is widely considered a specific marker for lung and thyroid carcinomas and plays an important role in angiogenesis in lung cancer. However, it can occasionally be expressed in other malignancies, including ovarian carcinomas, and the mechanism of TTF-1 in lymphatic metastasis of ovarian carcinomas is still unclear. This study aimed to define the TTF-1 expression and lymph vessel density (LVD) in ovarian carcinomas and look for their correlations with clinicopathological features.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi
July 2012
Objective: To assess the effects of LiCl on prostate cancer growth and to explore the underlying mechanisms.
Methods: Effects of LiCl on cell growth in vitro and in vivo were determined by cell counting and xenografts of prostate cancer cells. Alterations in cell proliferation and the expression of DNA replication-related protein were determined by MTT assay, BrdU incorporation and Western blot.