PMGCT stroma and vessels within the yolk sac tumor component of these tumors. It can be further speculated that expression of hematopoietic growth and differentiation factors in some PMGCT could drive the differentiation of primordial germ cells into hematopoietic progeny. The differentiation factors involved may be responsible for the preferred commitment of the transformed precursors to megak...

background and purpose: invasive candidiasis (ic) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with hematologic disorders and bone marrow transplant recipients. rapid, specific and sensitive test for the timely accuracy in immunocompromised patients to reduce mortality rates and prevent ic progress is necessary. we established a real-time pcr assay on blood for the diagnosis an...

zosteriform metastasis is a rare clinical distribution from spreading neoplasms of every organ to the skin. tumors most often arise from a n internal o r hematologic malignancy. w e report a 69-year-old man, a known case of malignant melanoma of the left heel. in this case, multiple red-brown metastatic nodules appeared four months after diagnosis. distribution of metastatic lesions resembled a...

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence of de novo malignancy after liver transplantation (LT) and compare with those among the general Chinese population. METHODS A total of 466 patients who had a minimum follow-up time of 6 months were enrolled in the study. All data of medical records and follow up were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS The incidence rate of de novo ma...