Primary malignant melanoma of the anus and rectum is a rare and aggressive neoplasm that tends to invade locally and metastasize early in the course of the disease. It is often misdiagnosed as hemorrhoids or as one of the other benign anorectal conditions and is thus linked to an overall poor prognosis and a 5-year survival rate of less than 20%. Optimal treatment is still controversial, and current evidence does not show any preferential survival benefit from abdominoperineal resection over wide local excision.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRadiation therapy has a solid role in the management of breast adenocarcinoma. It significantly reduces the rates of disease recurrence. Nevertheless, radiation therapy is not without side effects and patients who have undergone breast irradiation are at increased risk for lung disease, sarcomas, acute leukemia and esophageal cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHere, we present an observational case report of choroidal involvement of subcutaneous diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). An 85-year-old female presented with a growing mass on her left abdominal wall that had been gradually growing over 2 months, which was diagnosed as subcutaneous DLBCL. A total of 1.
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