BACKGROUND Malignant Mesothelioma is a rare primary neoplasm affecting the serosal membranes. During its relative short course, this malignant neoplasm can give local and, rarely, distant haematogenous metastases in different organs. The reported metastatic sites include liver, lung, heart, brain, thyroid, adrenals, kidneys, pancreas, bone, soft tissue, skin and lymph nodes. CASE PRESENTATION...

Malignant epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (MEH), also known as high-risk epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, is a low- to intermediate-grade vascular malignancy originally described as a vascular neoplasm of endothelial origin. This very rare vascular neoplasm has been described mainly in soft tissue, but also in various organs and locations, including the liver, lung, brain, colon, lymph nodes,...

To the Editor, Extramedullary hematopoiesis (EMH) is the presence of hemopoietic precursors outside the bone marrow. Usually, it is noted in patients with myeloproliferative disorder and congenital hematological diseases. The organs most commonly involved are the spleen, liver, and lymph nodes, but EMH has also been reported in a number of unusual sites such as, mediastinum and even breast. Alt...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a correlation exists between the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after liver transplant (LT). DESIGN Prospective cohort. SETTING University hospital. PATIENTS Adult LT recipients (N = 209). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Postoperative HRQOL over a 1-year period after LT as measured via multiple regression-ba...

PATIENT Male, 81 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Prostate cancer Symptoms: Anorexia • dark urine • joundice • letargy MEDICATION Casodex Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Oncology. OBJECTIVE Adverse events of drug therapy. BACKGROUND Bicalutamide is a nonsteroidal anti-androgen used extensively during the initiation of androgen deprivation therapy with a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agoni...

BACKGROUND Beside hepatocellular carcinoma, metastasis, and cholangiocarcinoma, the imaging findings of other relatively uncommon hepatic lesions are less discussed in the literature. Imaging diagnosis of these lesions is a daily challenge. In this article, we review the imaging characteristics of these neoplasms. METHODS From January 2003 to December 2014, 4746 patients underwent liver biops...

adenoid cystic carcinoma (adcc) is a malignant neoplasm, which accounts for 5-10% of all salivary gland tumors (1). about 50% of these tumors originate from intraoral minor salivary glands usually in the hard palate (1). three clinically obvious characteristics of adcc include slow growth rate, perineural invasion and high incidence of distant metastasis (1). the most commonly-affected sites of...

background: choriocarcinoma is a rare highly malignant trophoblastic neoplasm. it can be preceded by any form of gestation including a complete or a partial mole, miscarriage and normal pregnancy. simultaneous intraplacental choriocarcinoma involving both mother and infant is extremely rare. hepatomegaly, anemia, elevated ßhcg is the diagnostic triad. here we report a 6 weeks old afghan girl in...

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a clonal neoplasm that shows diverse clinical manifestations and courses of disease progression. The etiology and pathophysiology of LCH remain uncertain. We describe the clinical course of a 23-year-old Japanese woman with multi-system LCH, who showed rapid progression after steroid reduction and developed multi-organ failure. Liver biopsy showed LCH infi...