Vena cava and renal vein thrombosis with pheochromocytoma: A case report.

Pheochromocytomas are potentially malignant and may manifest with vascular thrombi. We present the treatment of a patient with pheochromocytoma and tumor thrombosis of the renal vein and inferior vena cava. A thirty-eight-year-old male patient was admitted complaining of abdominal pain and headache.

Systemic Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) Infection and Accompanying Warm Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia Following Intravesical BCG Immunotherapy.

Unlabelled: Intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is used for urothelial carcinoma. Systemic side effects are rare and commonly include organ involvement but rarely include bone marrow. We describe a patient who had received intravesical BCG and presented shortly afterwards with constitutional symptoms.

Diagnostic clues in a stem cell transplant patient manifested with chronic central nervous system GVHD and IRIS.

Transplant physicians should be aware of the immune deviation-related clinical conditions as allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is widely used for the treatment of patients with malignant and non-malignant disorders. Neurological manifestations and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) may commonly develop in transplant recipients. However, overlapping clinical immunological conditions may lead to diagnostic challenges.

The effect of sodium iodide symporter protein on ablation success in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate immunohistochemical staining of sodium iodide symporter (NIS) and its effect on response to I-131 therapy in differentiated thyroid carcinoma patients.

Methods: We evaluated NIS expression, the intracellular distribution of NIS, iodine-131 uptake in residual tissues on post-ablation I-131 whole body scan, and the ablation status after 100 mCi I-131 therapy. We also investigated NIS expression and localization in tumoral paraffin-embedded tissues.

The effects of infusion of perineural pregabalin in the experimentally created sciatic nerve anastomosis in rats.

Introduction And Object: The aim of our study was to assess the effect of perineural pregabalin administration on the success of coaptation in experimental rat sciatic nerve anastomosis by measuring the expression of anti-inflammatory cytokine TGF-β. It is thus to provide alternative solutions to this problem which we often see in clinical practice and whose results are not satisfactory.

Methods: In our study, 40 adult, male, Sprague-Dawley rats; 5 groups were randomly assigned.

Primary small intestinal non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosed after emergency surgery.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate clinical manifestation, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of patients with primary gastrointestinal non-Hodgkin lymphoma (PGI NHL), whose initial presentation was bowel obstruction or perforation.

Methods: Data of patients who underwent surgical intervention due to radiological evidence of perforation or intestinal obstruction and were subsequently diagnosed with intestinal lymphoma at Baskent University hospitals between January 2007 and November 2014 were examined retrospectively. Medical records, clinical history, symptoms, pathological reports, and treatment modalities were analyzed.

Spleen Salvaging Treatment Approaches in Non-parasitic Splenic Cysts in Childhood.

The aim of this study was to evaluate our experience with primary non-parasitic splenic cysts (NPSC) which are relatively rare in children and consist almost exclusively of single case reports or small case series in the literature. The medical records of all patients who presented to our clinic with NPSC between 2005 and 2015 were evaluated retrospectively. There were 22 children whose ages ranged from 2 months to 14 years (mean 9.

Variations in apparent diffusion coefficient values following chemotherapy in pediatric neuroblastoma.

Purpose: In children the assessment of solid tumors' response to chemotherapy is based primarily on size reduction, which can be unreliable and a late marker, in the presence of necrosis. We aimed to establish whether apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of childhood neuroblastomas show proportional changes in relation to chemotherapy response.

Methods: We evaluated 15 pediatric patients with abdominopelvic neuroblastomas, who had undergone MRI before and after chemotherapy.

Simultaneous occurrence of medullary and differentiated thyroid carcinomas. Report of 4 cases and brief review of the literature.

Simultaneous occurrence of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) in a single patient is an unusual event. The incidence, cell origin, histopathology features and prognosis of these two carcinomas are considered completely different. The aim of this retrospective study was to describe clinical, pathologic characteristics and the prevalence of diagnosing such patients in our clinic.

Spontaneous giant splenic hydatid cyst rupture causing fatal anaphylactic shock: a case report and brief literature review.

Hydatid disease is a parasitic infection characterized by cyst formation in any organ, although the liver and lungs are most commonly involved. Hydatid disease of the spleen is uncommon, representing <8% of all human hydatid diseases. Splenic hydatid cysts usually coexist with liver hydatid cysts (secondary form), although the spleen is the primary location (primary form) in some cases.

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease as a rare cause of benign lymphadenopathy and (18)F-FDG PET/CT findings.

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease (KFD) is an uncommon benign and self-limited disease, characterized by cervical lymphadenopathy. This disease is generally diagnosed on the basis of an excisional biopsy of affected lymph nodes. However, clinical presentation and histopathological findings of KFD could lead to a wrong initial diagnosis, of tuberculosis, systemic lupus erythymatosus or malignant lymphoma.

Is availability of anti-EGFR therapy for the colorectal adenocarcinomas showing fascin expression limited?

Colorectal adenocarcinoma (CRC) is a major cause of death. Fascin expression in CRCs was proved to be related with higher metastatic rates and poor prognosis, while metastatic patients with only wild type K-RAS gene are the candidates of recent molecularly targeted anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) therapies. This study is designed to investigate the correlation between the fascin expression status and the K-RAS mutational status of CRCs in order to assess the availability rate of anti-EGFR therapies for patients with fascin-expressing CRCs.

Comparison of alloplast materials in experimental extraocular muscle surgery.

Background: Extraocular muscles may be recessed using implants as spacer material. Silicone retinal band is an example of a spacer used to elongate the superior oblique (SO) tendon in Brown's syndrome and SO overaction; however, complications such as extrusion, scarring and restriction due to the implant have been reported. The purpose of our study was to evaluate and compare fibroblastic and inflammatory reactions to different alloplast materials in a rabbit model.

Frontal parosteal lipoma.

Parosteal lipoma of the head and neck is very rare, and there is no reported case of parosteal lipoma in the frontal region. We present the case of frontal parosteal lipoma in a 20-year-old man who was referred for a forehead mass causing a cosmetic problem. Computed tomography revealed an osseous projection with cortical irregularity and soft tissue enlargement.

Uncommon locations of hydatid cyst.

Objective: To document the hydatid cyst cases in the endemic Cukurova region of Turkey, by their involvement sites in the body, and discuss the clinical and morphological features of the cases with rare localization.

Methods: Archival materials of 153 hydatid cyst cases that were diagnosed in 2 different medical centers in Adana, Turkey Cukurova region between the years 2000-2006 were included in the study. Cases with rare localizations were reevaluated in terms of clinical and laboratory findings, and histopathological features.

A retrospective study on the coexistence of hydatid cyst and aspergillosis.

Objectives: Hydatid cyst is a zoonotic disease with an endemic regional distribution, and Aspergillus is a saprophytic fungus that may cause allergic pulmonary aspergillosis, aspergilloma, and semi-invasive and invasive aspergillosis. The coexistence of a saprophytic fungus and hydatid cyst is extremely rare. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the coexistence of aspergillosis and echinococcosis in archival materials and to discuss its probable clinical significance.

Effects of fibrin glue on nasal septal tissues.

Objectives: To investigate the changes in adult rabbit nasal septal tissues after application of fibrin glue during septoplasty.

Study Design: Preclinical animal study.

Methods: Nineteen adult albino Vienna rabbits were included in the study.