The prognostic significance of Gleason Grade in patients treated with permanent prostate brachytherapy.

Purpose: To assess the difference in biochemical freedom from relapse (BFR) between patients with clinically localized prostate cancer having Gleason Grade (GG) 3 + 4 vs. 4 + 3 disease treated with permanent prostate brachytherapy (PPB).

Methods And Materials: One thousand twenty-nine consecutive T1/T2 patients underwent PPB with Gleason sum 6, 7, or 8 adenocarcinoma of the prostate.

A comprehensive and novel predictive modeling technique using detailed pathology factors in men with localized prostate carcinoma.

Background: The purpose of the current study was to evaluate modeling strategies using sextant core prostate biopsy specimen data that would best predict biochemical control in patients with localized prostate carcinoma treated with permanent prostate brachytherapy (PPB).

Methods: One thousand four hundred seventy-seven patients underwent PPB between 1992 and 2000. The authors restricted analysis to those patients who had sextant biopsies (n = 1073).

Myxoid dermatofibrohistiocytoma: an indolent post-traumatic tumor composed of CD34+ epithelioid and dendritic cells and factor XIIIa+ dendrophages.

Factor XIIIa+ dendrophages and CD34+ "deep dermal dendrocytes" are distinct subsets of embryonic dermal dendritic stem cells that persist in interstitial and adventitial sites in adult dermis. We encountered a unique myxoid dermal tumor composed of these two cell types. It arose after trauma to the thumb of a 49-year-old man and was locally excised.

Disseminated tuberculosis in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome era.

To assess the influence of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV)-induced immunodeficiency on the clinical, radiographic, and pathologic features of disseminated tuberculosis (TB), we studied 79 patients presenting in 1984 through 1987 with miliary or focal disseminated disease due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as well as 4 additional non-HIV patients diagnosed after 1987. Clinically defined acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS-related complex (ARC) was present in 51 (Group 1). A total of 20 had TB unrelated to HIV disease (Group 2).

Definitive irradiation for localized non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of breast.

A diagnosis of primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) confined to the breast or breast and ipsilateral lymph nodes was biopsy proven in 19 patients who presented to our institution between 1970 and 1984. Four patients were treated with a modified radical mastectomy, and one with chemotherapy only. The remaining 14 patients comprise the basis of this study.