BACKGROUND Fluorescence-guided surgery (FGS) of tumors is an area of intense development. Peritoneally-disseminated cancer, however, represents a difficult surgical challenge. MATERIALS AND METHODS To help meet this challenge, EL4 mouse T-cell lymphoma cells expressing red fluorescent protein (RFP) were injected intraperitoneally in nude mice. RESULTS Two weeks after injection of EL4-RFP ce...

Disseminated aspergillosis is a known complication of neoplastic disease; however, it is usually associated with neoplasms of the hematopoietic or lymphoreticular systems or with immunosuppressed states. We describe the previously unreported association of disseminated aspergillosis and Cushing's syndrome secondary to a corticotropin-secreting oat cell carcinoma of the lung, and we review the c...

Disseminated microsporidiosis is a life-threatening opportunistic infection. Here, we report about a previously undescribed genovar of Encephalitozoon cuniculi causing disseminated infection in a non-HIV-infected renal transplant recipient. Disseminated microsporidiosis must be considered in the differential diagnosis of chronic fever in renal allograft recipients, even those without urinary sy...

BACKGROUND Disorders of coagulation have long been associated with inflammatory bowel disease. Children, as well as adults, with both active and inactive ulcerative colitis have been found to have abnormal coagulation and fibrinolysis. Disseminated intravascular coagulation arises from an overwhelming of the haemostatic regulatory mechanisms leading to an excessive generation of thrombin and a ...