Thyroid-like follicular carcinoma of the kidney is an extremely rare histological variant of renal cell carcinoma. It was described only recently and is not included in the World Health Organization classification of renal tumors. This tumor characteristically shows similar histology to thyroid follicular carcinoma but lacks typical thyroid markers. Herein, we report a new case of thyroid-like ...

Accessible online at: www.onkder.org 1Department of Chest Diseases, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul-Turkey 2Department of Chest Surgery, Yedikule Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul-Turkey 3Department of Chest Diseases, Bağcılar Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul-Turkey 4Department of Medical Pa...

In 1938, Owen described a malignant renal neoplasm with a peculiar histological pattern. The peculiarity consisted in the tumour cells forming glomerular structures made up of cuboidal cells with clear cytoplasm, indistinct borders and round hyperchromatic nuclei. The glomerular structures had no vascular tufts but showed, at the periphery, a limiting membrane lined by cuboidal cells in one or ...

Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the breast is a rare malignancy, with fewer than 20 cases documented in the literature. Given the paucity of reported cases, there is limited information available to guide the diagnosis and management of patients with this tumor. We present a case of a 39-year-old woman with a palpable right breast mass that was initially diagnosed by core needle biopsy as i...

Recent reports suggest that colorectal cancer is positively related to insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and inversely related to insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3 (IGFBP-3). To evaluate these associations further and separately for colon and rectal cancer, the authors conducted a nested case-control study in a cohort of 9,345 Japanese-American men examined in Hawaii in 1971-1977....