Detection of asymptomatic cardiac metastasis and successful salvage chemotherapy comprising a prednisone, Etoposide, procarbazine, and cyclophosphamide regimen in an elderly Japanese patient suffering from a delayed recurrence of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

We report a case of facial diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) associated with recurrent metastasis in the heart and other sites in a 76-year-old Japanese woman. Initially, she developed DLBCL in her left upper eyelid that spread into the left orbit (Ann Arbor classification stage I). The lesion went into clinical regression after 4 cycles of rituximab plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy.

[Long-term prognosis of incidental renal cell carcinoma--clinical analysis of renal cell carcinoma detected by our health checkup].

Purpose: We retrospectively evaluated the characteristics and long-term prognosis of incidentally detected renal cell carcinoma by health checkup.

Materials And Methods: From January 1987 to December 2005, 556 patients were treated for renal cell carcinoma in our department. Among them, 56 patients were detected by abdominal ultrasonography in health checkup of our health care center.