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Minerva Stomatol
April 2007
Unit of Maxillofacial Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti, Bergamo, Italy.
Female breast cancer is one of the major causes of death among women while male breast cancer is relatively uncommon and accounts for about 1% of all breast cancers in both sexes. Influencing factors are: gynecomasty, familiarity for male breast cancer, Jewish and African-American male population. From the histological point of view, it is not different from the female breast cancer, except for the infiltrant ductal carcinoma, but with a much severe prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Neurosci
April 2007
1st Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
This article attempts to describe a very unusual case of a boy aged 15, who has had intractable epileptic phenomena, mental retardation, megalocephaly, micrognathy, syndactyly, small tongue, hypoplastic genitalia, gynecomasty, obesity, and slight left body hemiatrophy. Neurologically the patient has had hypotonia of the lower limbs, cerebellar dysfunction including horizontal nystagmus, bilateral intention tremor, dysdiadokokinesia, gait ataxia. The clinical investigation revealed low plasma cholesterol and hypoplasia of the vermis in MRI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndokrynol Pol
October 2006
Department of Endocrinology, Medical Center of Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland.
We present a case of 50 year-old man with feminizing adrenal carcinoma. He was admitted to the hospital because of weakness and one year history of gynecomastia and high blood pressure. Examinations revealed a large left adrenal mass and increased levels of estradiol.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Hematol
November 2000
Department of Hematology, Hemocentro de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
We present a rare case of adult T cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) in which leukemic T cells expressed CD4 and CD25 surface antigens and infiltrated mammary glands during clinical course of the disease. A 40-year-old male was admitted with long-standing skin lesions and leukocytosis. Peripheral blood lymphocytes were highly pleomorphic and presented CD2, CD4, CD25, CD38 membrane surface antigens.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZh Nevropatol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova
February 1985
A 13-year-old girl with Satoyoshi's syndrome is described. The disease manifested itself with generalized cramps, myoclonus, alopecia, diarrhea, growth retardation, muscular hypertrophies, bone malformations, and uterine and gonadal aplasia in the presence of normally developed breasts. Acetazolamide therapy led to a considerable alleviation of cramps and myoclonuses.
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