A 70 year-old man underwent contrast CT, which revealed his swollen left inguinal and pelvic lymph nodes. The lymph nodes reduced in size without any treatments in a follow-up examination. In 2013, the lymph nodes enlarged again, and FDG-PET/CT showed high value at the prostate and multiple lymph nodes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 66-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for a right renal mass found in the examination for sudden right flank pain. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed a right renal tumor, 8.0 cm in diameter, with massive hemorrhage due to spontaneous tumor rupture.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNihon Hinyokika Gakkai Zasshi
April 2015
Objectives: We report on the treatment trends and outcomes for prostate cancer in our clinic retrospectively, and compared our data with the domestic clinical mass study for prostate cancer. We then validated the legitimacy of our selected therapy for prostate cancer.
Patients And Methods: Eight hundred and eighteen patients at our clinic had histologically confirmed adenocarcinomas of the prostate between January, 2000 and January, 2013.
Two cases of unilateral synchronous occurrence of renal pelvic urothelial carcinoma and renal cell carcinoma are presented. Case 1 : A 70-year-old woman presented with macroscopic hematuria. Retroperitoneoscopic nephroureterectomy was performed under the diagnosis of renal pelvic carcinoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 56-year-old man was admitted to our hospital complaining of dyspnea, general fatigue and lumbago. Several examinations revealed severe pancytopenia with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), multiple lymph node metastases, and extremely high serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) level. Hormonal therapy under a diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer was started.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn 80-year-old women consulted a physician because of weight loss and slight fever. Since a large retroperitoneal tumor was found, the patient was referred to our hospital. Based on abdominal computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and blood tests, preoperative diagnosis was non-functioning left adrenal tumor, 13 cm in diameter.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 36-year-old man referred to our hospital with the chief complaint of painful left inguinal mass and fever. He had undergone left orchiopexy for undescended testis at 10 years of age. With the suspicion of an incarceration of inguinal hernia, an operation was performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 42-year-old man referred to our hospital with the chief complaint of a solid mass of right scrotal contents. As ultrasonography revealed a right testicular tumor, right high orchiectomy was performed and the pathlogical diagnosis was testicular seminoma. At the age of 35-year-old, he was admitted to another hospital for male infertility due to azoospermia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRenal solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) has been reported infrequently. We report a case in a 39-year-old woman with a 9-month history of sense of abdominal fullness. Computed tomography revealed well-encapsulated heterogeneous tumors involving the lower pole of the left kidney with left renal vein extension.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 10-yr-old boy visited Minoh City Hospital complaining of gross hematuria. Laboratory investigations revealed hypercalcemia, hypophosphatemia, and elevated serum levels of parathyroid hormone. A stone was found in the right ureter with drip infusion pyelography.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 72-year-old man had undergone trasucethral resection of bladder tumor (TUR-Bt) three times from 1990 to 1991 and he had been lost to follow with no recurrence from 1996, came to our hospital complaining of asymptomatic macrohematuria in May 1999. A bladder tumor existed around the right ureteral orifice with right hydronephrosis. MRI and TUR-Bt revealed that the cancer was transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) > small cell carcinoma, G3, pT3b.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChoriocarcinomas usually develop in the uterus and ovaries in the female, being extremely rare in the extragenital organs in the male. Extragenital choriocarcinomas in the male usually develop in the mediastinum or retroperitoneum. The frequency of choriocarcinoma in the urinary bladder is extremely low.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a case of primary signet ring cell carcinoma of the prostate in a 75-year-old man. Serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) level at presentation was 9.3 ng/mL.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a case of infectious perinephric urinoma in a 73-year-old woman who had a neurogenic bladder with vesico-ureteral reflux. The patient was admitted to our emergency room with right lumbago and high fever. Ultrasounds and computed tomography demonstrated a right large perinephric cystic mass, bilateral hydronephrosis and much residual urine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDesmoid tumor is a fibroblastic proliferation arising in musculoaponeurotic tissues. We report a case of abdominal desmoid tumor discovered 2 years after radical nephrectomy for right renal cell carcinoma. Surgical extirpation was performed and the patient remained well 2 years later with no evidence of disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo our knowledge, no standard chemotherapy for patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC) has been established. Since most patients with HRPC are elderly and have bone metastasis, cytotoxic chemotherapy causes them to be at high risk for myelosuppression. Therefore, chemotherapeutic agents with low toxicity and good compliance should be elected.
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