Protective effects of extract against scopolamine-induced behavioral disturbances and brain oxidative stress in rats.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Alzheimer's disease (AD) as the most common type of dementia, is affecting the life of many senior individuals around the world. Vinca Waldst. & Kit.

[Cyclophosphamide-induced interstitial pneumopathy. Course data of bronchoalveolar lavage apropos of a case and review of the literature].

A patient treated with cyclophosphamide for breast cancer developed functional and clinicoradiological signs of sub-acute diffuse interstitial pneumopathy. Bronchoalveolar lavage revealed lymphocyte alveolitis. Differential diagnoses were excluded and the course was favorable after cyclophosphamide withdrawal.

[Uncommon complication of the use of implantable chambers in oncology].

The catheter of an implantable chamber migrated into the pulmonary infundibulum in a patient given chemotherapy for bronchogenic cancer. Current management of such cases is to remove the catheter under pulmonary angiography control using a basket system.

[Ganglioneuroma of the mediastinum. Apropos of a case].

The authors report a case of a large ganglioneurinoma located in the mediastinum. The clinical course of this rare benign neurogenic tumour of the posterior mediastinum includes a low risk of medullary compression. The treatment is surgical resection.

[Giant cell tumors of the ribs. Apropos of a case].

The authors report a case of grade I-II giant-cell tumour of the ribs extending to the thorax and the vertebral column. The tumour was treated by surgical resection followed by vertebral curettage in two stages and adjuvant regional radiotherapy. Giant-cell tumours of the ribs are exceptional and rarely found in the literature.

External irradiation plus curietherapy boost in 108 base of tongue carcinomas.

From 1960 to 1983, 108 patients underwent an association cobaltherapy plus curietherapy boost for a base of tongue carcinoma. This group included 18 T1 tumors, 39 T2, and 51 T3. Cobaltherapy was delivered to a dose of 45 Gy/4.

Epstein-Barr virus related lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of lung.

A malignant neoplasm localized to the lung is reported in a rather unusual host: a 40-year-old female, nonsmoker, of South-East Asiatic origin. The histology was of nasopharyngeal-like carcinoma character and ultrastructural examination confirmed a diagnosis of nonkeratinizing, poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. The clinicopathologic findings were more suggestive of a primary pulmonary origin than the manifestation of an occult nasopharyngeal primary.