Background: Lymphoma is a common malignant proliferative disease in which bone marrow infiltration will upstage the disease and thus affect prognosis of the disease. As of now bone marrow biopsy is considered as a reference standard to find out bone marrow involvement in lymphoma. Performing an invasive and painful intervention in all newly diagnosed lymphoma patients is controversial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpendymomas are rare glial tumors that commonly arise from the lining cells of ventricular system and constitute ~10% of intracranial pediatric malignancies. The incidence of ependymoma in adults is rare. Due to close approximation with the ventricular system, subtentorial ependymomas are more prone to show cerebrospinal fluid metastasis compared with supratentorial ependymomas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is the second most common nonmelanoma skin cancer. Unlike basal cell carcinoma, regional lymph nodal metastases and subsequent distant site metastases are more common. Up to approximately 2% to 5% of cSCCs can result in distant metastases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdult cutaneous T-cell lymphoma is an uncommon malignancy with poor prognosis and is usually seen in association with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1. We present the case of a 25-year-old female who gave a history of extensive whole-body polypoidal cutaneous and bilateral orbital and breast swellings. Biopsy was suggestive of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and the patient was evaluated with F-labeled fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography and computed tomography for initial staging of the disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPorocarcinoma is a rare malignant neoplasm of eccrine sweat glands representing 0.005 to 0.1% of all cutaneous tumors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHepatobiliary involvement is a less common manifestation of abdominal tuberculosis. We present the case of a 42-year-old female who presented with fever, abdominal pain, and jaundice of 2 months duration. F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography done for disease evaluation suggested the likely possibility of cholangiocarcinoma but excision biopsy from periportal lymph node later confirmed a granulomatous etiology and she was successfully treated with antitubercular therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBrown adipose tissue of cervical, supraclavicular, and paravertebral regions can show increased FDG uptake. But human white adipose tissue (WAT) shows negligible FDG uptake on 18F-FDG PET/CT scan. We present a case of carcinoma cervix treated with concurrent chemoradiation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Liver cirrhosis is associated with cardiac dysfunction in 40%-60% of the patients. Serum NT-ProBNP is a potential additional marker of cirrhotic cardiomyopathy.
Materials And Methods: It was a cross-sectional analytical study done in a tertiary care center in South India on 100 patients of cirrhosis of liver.
Indian Pacing Electrophysiol J
February 2017
Atrial arrhythmias rising from the regions of the atria that are in close proximity to each other may pose a challenge in identifying the chamber to map and ablate in. In this report, we discuss a patient with left atrial tachycardia which initially mimicked right atrial tachycardia. We discuss the origins of the abnormal electrograms in the right atrium and how this provides a general understanding of the mechanism of double potentials.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground & Objectives: The optimal anti-snake venom (ASV) dose required to treat neurotoxic snake envenomation is not known. Low-dose ASV (national protocol: maximum dose 200 ml) may be as efficacious as the conventional regimen (100 ml six hourly till all symptoms disappear), but a direct comparison of the regimens is not available. The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of low-dose ASV regimen against the conventional high-dose regimen.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Posteroseptal accessory pathways may be associated with a coronary sinus (CS) diverticulum. Our purpose was to describe the clinical characteristics, mapping and ablation of these pathways.
Methods: This was a retrospective study of all patients who underwent ablation of posteroseptal accessory pathways in a single centre.