Anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion is a common spinal procedure. Over time, complications and hospital stay have decreased. However, to the authors' knowledge, no study has examined the necessity of routine postoperative hematologic laboratory studies for patients undergoing this procedure.From January 2005 through July 2010, four hundred thirty-four consecutive patients with cervical radi...

Correspondence: Patrizia Zappasodi, M.D., Institute of Hematology, Policlinico San Matteo, 27100 Pavia, Italy. Phone: international +390382-503595 – Fax: international +39-0382-502250 A60-year old woman presented with fever and painful skin lesions of the lower extremities. At physical examination she had large elevated and infiltrated plaques ranging from 4 to 6 cm in diameter, on the knees, f...

EDITORIAL article Front. Oncol., 17 August 2021Sec. Hematologic Malignancies Volume 11 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.744009

abstract background brucella mellitensis, the most invasive strain of brucella, is the predominant strain of genus brucella in iran. it causes variety of hematological abnormalities some of which are frequent and causes difficulties in diagnosis. objective to find hematological abnormalities of brucellosis in hospitalized patients in an endemic area. materials and methods a retrospective review...

BACKGROUND The association between primary germ cell tumors of the mediastinum (the space between the lung pleura that contains the heart and other chest viscera) and hematologic malignancies has been described by retrospective analysis of patients treated at individual clinical centers. To better characterize the risk of hematologic disorders in patients with extragonadal germ cell tumors and ...

Immunotherapy with genetically engineered T-cells that express the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) has raised hopes for the treatment of pediatric malignancies. Although CAR T-cell development is on a fast-moving pace and evolution, the context of exploring novel targetable antigens has been neglected. In this review study, we analyze the prominent hematologic antigens targeted by engineered T-...

intracranial gliosis has no typical clinical signals or imaging characteristics. therefore, it can be easily misdiagnosed as neoplasm. hereby, we report a unique case of gliosis that grew outward from the surface of the brain. mri depicted its signal and enhancement pattern similar to the cerebral gray matter. the diagnosis was confirmed by pathology and immunohistochemistry. although it was di...

Serous cystic neoplasms of the pancreas are rare exocrine pancreatic neoplasms, most of which are benign and do not communicate with the pancreatic duct. Pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasm (PanIN) is considered a precursor of ductal adenocarcinoma that is microscopically recognized in pancreatic ducts. A 67-year-old Japanese woman presented with a 10-mm multilocular cystic lesion at the pancre...

Most ovarian neoplasms are benign, epithelial types are commonest. There is no regular screening test for detecting malignant ovarian neoplasm, most patients remain asymptomatic until late stages. About 80% of malignant ovarian neoplasm present in stage 3 and 4 with 15% 5 year survival rate. To find out frequency of different types of ovarian neoplasm among women aged 15-60 years and correlates...

The presence of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) has been determined in neoplastic cells from 50 patients with non-hematologic tumors as well as neoplastic cells from 85 patients with hematologic malignancies. The results indicate that TdT is not present in cells from non-hematologic tumors, Hodgkin's lymphoma, B cell lymphoproliferative disorders, peripheral T cell neoplasms, reacti...