background: chronic renal disease is a health problem in today’s world. in the end-stages of renal disease patients depend upon alternative therapies including dialysis for their survival. however, dialysis causes several stressors on physical, mental and social performance of patients. the present study aimed to review and compare the self-concept in patients undergoing hemodialysis and perito...

Pericardial effusions from 47 patients were examined for cancer cells. Fluids from 13 of the 15 patients with neoplasm involving the pericardium were decisively "positive." There were no false positive reports. Three patients had malignancy localized to the chest, but not metastatic to the pericardium. Ef-fusions from these three patients contained no tumor cells. The accumulation of fluid in a...

Here, we report the history of a 42-year-old female patient with sporadic mismatch-repair-deficient metastatic colorectal cancer and abdominal bulky disease, who received pembrolizumab (200 mg every 3 weeks) after the failure of third-line treatment. Restaging 3 months after initiation of treatment revealed a striking response with shrinkage of the bulky peritoneal tumour mass (baseline size 11...

Hemangiopericytoma, a rare mesenchymal tumour, is believed to originate from the pericyte of Zimmermann. It may affect every organ in the body. Recurrences after treatment and metastasis are well known. However, presentation of hemangiopericytoma with peritoneal carcinomatosis is not documented in literature. To the best our knowledge, we report the imaging findings of the first histologically ...

Metastasis into a thyroid neoplasm-tumor-to-tumor metastasis-is exceedingly rare. We describe the 28th documented case of a tumor metastatic to a thyroid neoplasm and review the literature on tumor-to-tumor metastasis involving a thyroid neoplasm as recipient. All cases showed a recipient thyroid neoplasm with an abrupt transition to a morphologically distinct neoplasm. Metastasis into primary ...

abstract objective : to report a case of pancreatic pseudo papillary solid cystic tumor, known as frantz tumor, which was discovered after a blunt abdominal trauma and to carry out a review of literature. case report : the patient was a 14-years old girl who came to the emergency room after blunt abdominal trauma with an intense abdominal pain. she underwent emergent laparotomy because of the p...

Ependymoma constitute 5 % to 7 % of all primary CNS neoplasm. But their prevalence relative to other tumor type varies with patient age and presenting location. Ependymoma constitute approximately 1O % of intracranial neoplasm in pediatric population and up to 30 % of those encountered in children under 3 years of age. In spinal column, ependymoma constitute 60% of glial neoplasm, and opposed...

1Haruki-Moto-Machi, Kishiwada City, Osaka 596-0032, Japan 2Department of Oncology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 169, Donghu Road, Wuchang District Wuhan 430071, China 3Program in Surface Malignancy, Washington Hospital Center, 106 Irving St, NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA 4Chefarzt Klinik für Allgemein-und Viszeralchirurgie Krankenhaus Barmherzige Brüder, Regensburg Prüfeninger Str...

The prognosis of advanced gastric cancer patients with peritoneal metastasis is extremely poor. We advocate extensive intraoperative peritoneal lavage (EIPL) as a useful and practical adjuvant surgical technique for gastric cancer patients who are likely to suffer from peritoneal recurrence. In this article, we review the ability of EIPL to prevent peritoneal recurrence in patients with periton...