Sporotrichoid atypical cutaneous infection caused by Mycobacterium marinum.

A case of a sporotrichoid cutaneous infection caused by Mycobacterium marinum is reported. A 53- year-old male patient presented with red, partly purulent nodular lesions on the back of his left hand, forearm, and upper medial arm that had developed consecutively during the past 4 weeks. A mycobacterial infection with M.

Monoclonal gammopathy after low-grade MALT lymphoma: evidence for a second neoplasm.

We report the case of a patient with lymphoma of the salivary gland, at first diagnosed as lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT lymphoma) but later found to infiltrate the bone marrow. At diagnosis, the patient had a polyclonal increase of gamma-globulins. Five years after initial diagnosis, the patient presented with monoclonal gammopathy and infiltration of the bone marrow with neoplastic cells.

Phase-I study of mafosfamide-cyclohexylamine (ASTA-Z-7557, NSC 345 842) and limited phase-I data on mafosfamide-lysine.

Mafosfamide-cyclohexylamine is a new oxazaphosphorine derivative. It was chosen for phase-I clinical testing because of an expected higher therapeutic index and lack of complete cross resistance in animal tumors compared to cyclophosphamide. The schedule consisted of a single iv dose repeated every three weeks.

Sequential methotrexate and 5-FU in breast cancer resistant to the conventional application of these drugs.

Methotrexate and 5-FU were given sequentially with a 7-hour interval to 43 evaluable patients with heavily pretreated metastatic breast cancer. Partial remissions were seen in 12 patients (28%), indicating efficacy of this regimen in patients resistant to the conventional simultaneous application of these drugs.