Capecitabine-related intracranial hypotension syndrome mimicking dural metastasis in a breast cancer patient: case report and review of the literature.

Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SICH) is an entity, which is secondary to iatrogenic manipulation and breaching of dura. Postural headache in patients should be suspected, cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for precise diagnosis. Hallmark of MRI is regular shape of pachymeningeal gadolinium enhancement and subdural effusion.

Comparison of protective effects of L-carnitine and amifostine on radiation-induced toxicity to growing bone: histopathology and scintigraphy findings.

Purpose: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the radioprotective efficacy of L-carnitine (LC) in growing bones in comparison to amifostine.

Materials And Methods: Sixty two-week-old Wistar albino rats were randomly assigned to six equal groups: Group 1, control (CONT); Group 2, irradiation alone (RT); Group 3, amifostine plus irradiation (AMI+ RT); Group 4, L-carnitine plus irradiation (LC+ RT); Group 5, amifostine alone (AMI); Group 6, L-carnitine alone (LC). The rats in the AMI+ RT, LC+ RT and RT groups were irradiated individually with a single dose of 20 Gy to the left femur.

Pleomorphic liposarcoma of the pectoralis major muscle in an elderly man: report of a case and review of literature.

Primary liposarcoma of the pectoral major muscle is extremely rare. We report a case of liposarcoma of the pectoral major muscle which was treated with surgical excision and postoperative radiotherapy. A 70-year-old man admitted with left-sided painless progressively growing breast mass.

Histopathological and scintigraphic comparisons of the protective effects of L-carnitine and amifostine against radiation-induced late renal toxicity in rats.

1. The aim of the present study was to compare the protective effects of L-carnitine and amifostine against radiation-induced late nephrotoxicity using technetium-99m diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid scintigraphy and histopathological examination. 2.

Recurrent solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura: significant response to radiotherapy.

Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) of the pleura is an uncommon neoplasm with non-specific symptoms and non-pathognomonical radiological findings. Surgery allows establishment of a definitive diagnosis as well as a cure of the disease. The role of radiotherapy or chemotherapy in the management of the disease is unclear because of the rarity of the disease and the successful results of the surgical treatment.

Identification of patients who may benefit from the prophylactic cranial radiotherapy among breast cancer patients with brain metastasis.

Background: To identify the candidates for prophylactic cranial radiotherapy (PCI) among the patients with early and advanced-stage breast cancer.

Methods: The demographic, pathologic and clinical features and survival results of 182 brain metastatic breast cancer patients treated with cranial radiotherapy were examined.

Results: Early stage patients who progressed with isolated brain metastasis had longer survival (13 months vs.

Amifostine use in radiation-induced kidney damage. Preclinical evaluation with scintigraphic and histopathologic parameters.

Purpose: To assess the degree of protective effects of amifostine on kidney functions via semiquantitative static renal scintigraphy and histopathologic analysis.

Material And Methods: 30 female albino rats were divided into three equal groups as control (CL), radiotherapy alone (RT), and radiotherapy + amifostine (RT+AMI). The animals in the CL and RT groups were given phosphate-buffered saline, whereas the animals in the RT+AMI group received amifostine (200 mg/kg) by intraperitoneal injection 30 min before irradiation.

Inguinal lymph node as the only evidence of progressive lung cancer.

Tumours that metastasise to groin nodes most frequently originate in genital and reproductive organs, skin, rectum or anus, or urinary bladder. However, rare cases of inguinal metastases from tumours above the diaphragm have been reported and only three of them had an inguinal metastasis which was recognised antemortem and reported in detail in the English medical literature. The primary tumours of these cases were malignant mesothelioma, salivary duct and breast carcinoma.

Lung, bone, skeletal muscles and cutaneous metastases from adenoid cystic carcinoma of the parotid gland: a case report and review of the literature.

Adenoid cystic carcinoma is the second most common malignancy of the major and minor salivary glands after mucoepidemoid carcinoma. The risk of distant metastases is approximately 20-50%. Although bone, the central nervous system and the other organs may become involved, the lungs are favored sites for metastases.

An ambiguous phenomenon of radiation and drugs: recall reactions.

The term 'radiation recall' describes an acute inflammatory reaction in previously irradiated areas after the administration of certain inciting systemic agents. It was first described in 1959 by D'Angio that dermatitis is related to the application of actinomycin D on the skin. Though this reaction occurs frequently on the skin, it may also be seen in the oral mucosa, the larynx, esophagus, small intestine, lungs, muscle tissue, and brain.

Paraneoplastic syndrome of non-small cell lung carcinoma: a case with pancytopenia, leukocytoclastic vasculitis, and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy.

Various remote effects of cancer or paraneoplastic syndromes (PNS) are common in lung cancer, and may be the manifestation of the disease or its recurrence. The symptoms may be endocrine, neuromuscular or musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, cutaneous, hematologic, gastrointestinal, renal, or miscellaneous in nature. Since the symptoms of paraneoplastic syndromes may occur before the local symptoms of the primary tumor, it might be helpful in the early diagnosis of malignancy.

[An analysis of genetic transmission in a father and son with osteosarcoma].

Familial osteosarcoma is a rare hereditary disease. We present a 37-year-old father and a 17-year-old son who developed osteosarcoma in the left and right distal femurs, respectively, at a three-year interval. They were treated with chemotherapy followed by surgery.