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Urol Oncol
January 2025
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Electronic address:
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death among men in the United States. The global burden of this disease is rising, placing significant strain on healthcare systems worldwide. Although definitive therapies like surgery and radiation are often effective, prostate cancer can recur and progress to castration-resistant prostate cancer in some cases.
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December 2024
Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia Outpatient Clinic, Júlio de Matos Hospital, São José Local Health Unit, Clinical Academic Center of Lisbon, Lisbon, PRT.
Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is a diffuse, large B-cell lymphoma affecting the brain, spinal cord, leptomeninges, or eyes. A patient with a recurrence of a previous PCNSL manifesting as an isolated vitreoretinal disease without central nervous system (CNS) involvement and a second cerebral recurrence without vitreoretinal involvement has not yet been reported. The patient is an 86-year-old man with PCNSL of the left cerebellum diagnosed at the age of 82 years and treated with suboccipital trepanation and resection of the lesion followed by chemotherapy.
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December 2024
Second Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.
A 65-year-old man was admitted for a tissue biopsy of suspected right middle and lower lobe lung cancer with multiple bone metastases. During hospitalization, he started to cough up blood, which recurred after intubation. The patient experienced asphyxia, which led to cardiopulmonary arrest, but was successfully resuscitated.
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December 2024
Department of Neurosurgery, Hakodate Neurosurgical Hospital, Hokkaido, JPN.
Angioplasty and stenting of brachiocephalic artery stenosis can be complicated by ischemic stroke, local hematoma, thromboses, or dissection of access vessels. However, hemodynamic instability has not been reported as a complication of this treatment. We report the case of an 83-year-old man who developed hypotension and bradycardia after brachiocephalic artery stenting.
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January 2025
Department of Radiation Oncology, Kagawa University Hospital, 1750-1 Ikenobe, Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa 761-0793 Japan.
Cytokeratin-positive interstitial reticulum cell (CIRC) tumor is an extremely rare malignant neoplasm and a subtype of fibroblastic reticular cell tumor, classified within the dendritic cell tumor group. We describe a case of an epicardial CIRC tumor that was resected and subsequently recurred in the left pulmonary hilum. This recurrence was treated with immunotherapy followed by radiotherapy.
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