A case of contralateral inguinal lymph node metastases from breast cancer.

Background: Breast cancer is well known to tends to invade through the lymphatic chains mainly to the axillary and subclavian nodes or occasionally to the internal mammary nodes. However, inguinal lymph node metastasis from breast cancer is extremely rare.

Case Presentation: We have experienced a case of an 82-year-old woman showing left inguinal lymph node metastases from right breast cancer.

Expression and protein localization analyses of () in tomato () root epidermis.

The arrangement of root hair and non-hair cells in the root epidermis provides a useful model for understanding the cell fate determination system in plants. A network of related transcription factors, including GLABRA3 (GL3), influences the patterning of cell types in . is expressed primarily in root hair cells and encodes a bHLH transcription factor, which inhibits root hair differentiation in root epidermis.

[The effect of strontium-89 therapy in a patient with cholangiocellular carcinoma].

A 77-year-old man was diagnosed as having cholangiocellular carcinoma. The patient underwent partial right hepatectomy in June 2008, and multiple bone metastases occurred approximately 9 months after surgery. He refused salvage chemotherapy and radiation therapy.