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No To Shinkei
June 2002
Department of Neurology, Suzuka National Hospital, 3-2-1 Kasado, Suzuka, Mie 513-8501, Japan.
In this paper, atypical pathological findings in a genetic diagnosed case of dentato-rubro-pallido-luysian atrophy (DRPLA) with mild degeneration in the common lesions of the disease is reported. The patient was 59-year-old woman with 31-year history of involuntary movement, ataxia and psychiatric disorders. Her CAG repeat number of DRPLA gene was 68/14.
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June 2001
Department of Internal Medicine, Nipponkokan Fukuyama Hospital, Fukuyama, Hiroshima.
We treated a rare case of malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) of soft tissue that produced granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). The patient, an 80-year-old woman, was admitted because of a feeling of abdominal fullness and leg edema. An elastic, hard, tender tumor was palpated in the right thigh.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNihon Geka Gakkai Zasshi
April 1993
First Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Japan.
We experienced a very rare case of hyalinizing trabecular adenoma of the thyroid. The histopathological features of this case included the following. 1) In puncture-aspiration cytodiagnosis, tumor cells aggregated around pink-stained hyaline acellular areas in an ellipsoidal or spindly configuration, with a part of the cytoplasm appearing as filamentous with unclear borders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn a material of 14 cases of funicular myelosis the authors demonstrated frequent presence of peripheral signs, psychic changes and rare occurrence of such infrequent syndromes as transverse myelitis, cerebellar syndrome, optic nerve atrophy. Diagnostic difficulties are discussed in cases of pernicious anaemia without blood changes, without gastric achylia, or in patients with vitamin B12 deficiency, malabsorption syndromes and other more infrequent pathological conditions. The importance of such investigations as Schilling's test in atypical cases and the necessity of regular, long-term substitutive treatment with B12 are stressed.
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