The case of a 39-year-old woman presented with symptoms of progressive cerebellar degeneration for few months preceding by the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. The causative association was revealed with the strong positivity of antineuronal antibody. Because of the multidisciplinary team approach with surgery and adjuvant endocrine treatment, the patient did improve symptomatically and she is alive without any evidence of disease after 22 months following the initial diagnosis of the neurological disorder.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKrukenberg tumor (KT) is a rare clinical entity with a mysterious origin. It originates most commonly from adenocarcinoma of the stomach. We present an interestingly rare case of this entity in renal cell carcinoma, revealed by F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpontaneous sigmoid colon perforation after cytoreduction surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is a rare complication. It is more commonly seen with mitomycin-based HIPEC. This case study's patient presented with pus discharge at the drain site after 4 weeks of surgery.
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January 2020
Background: This study aims to analyze risk factors, clinical profiles, treatment protocols, and disease outcomes in histologically proven resectable vulvar cancer (VC) patients according to tumor stage. This is a retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected database of 20 VC patients from May 2014 to June 2019.
Results: The mean age of VC diagnosis was 55 years, with a range of 38-84 years.
Immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)-related diseases are a spectrum of systemic inflammatory conditions of unknown etiology, which are characterized by infiltration of tissues by IgG4 plasma cells and sclerosing inflammation (Cheuk and Chan Adv Anat Pathol 17:303-32, 2010). Although this condition was initially described in relation to autoimmune pancreatitis, now it has been reported in almost every organ system of body (Zen and Nakanuma Am J Surg Pathol 34:1812-9, 2010, Masaki et al. Ann Rheuma Dis 68:1310-5, 2009).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGraves' ophthalmopathy (GO) involves autoimmune activation of fibroblasts, resulting in chronic inflammatory reaction. Somatostatin receptors are expressed in the cells associated with chronic inflammation. We hereby present patients with active GO, with delayed response to the standard treatment regimen, in whom Ga-DOTANOC positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) was planned to evaluate the orbital inflammation.
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