Metastasis from breast cancer to other parts of the body is very common, but the spread of the tumor to pituitary gland, especially to infandibulum, is a rare presentation. At the time of pituitary metastasis, a majority of the patients have clinical and radiological evidence of the disease. It seems that the posterior area of the gland is the most common site of metastasis, probably due to hig...

primary pleuropulmonary synovial sarcomas are rare soft tissue malignancies; combined metastatic involvement of the heart is extremely rare. in this case report, a 17-year-old female presented with a history of chest pain. chest radiographs revealed a round mass in the left upper hemithorax, and computed tomography (ct) showed a well-defined heterogeneous enhancing mass abutting the pleura. a c...

INTRODUCTION Primary cardiac cancer is a very rare disease, among which primary cardiac angiosarcoma is one of the most frequent type and is characterized by extremely poor prognosis without established optimal treatment. CASE DESCRIPTION Here we report a case of primary cardiac angiosarcoma with hemorrhagic pericardial effusion who achieved a durable response with tumor excision followed by ...

We report a case of a 33-year-old woman with emergency admission due to dyspnoea and fever. History included squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix in complete remission. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scanning of the chest, which was indicated to rule out pneumonia, revealed an infiltrative cardiac mass. Further assessment of the tumour by echocardiography and cardiac magnetic reson...

A ball valve thrombus is a common entity in rheumatic mitral stenosis where large clot forms the left atrial appendage, detaches from swirls atrium clockwise manner, obstructs inflow producing cyclic acute pulmonary edema, and likely causes ventricular outflow tract obstruction transient syncope or embolism to brain dense hemiplegia. Besides stenosis, has been described post-mitral replacement ...

Lung cancer is one of the leading cancers all over the world. Positron emission tomography (PET) using 18F fluorodeoxyglucose (18F FDG) is useful for staging of the disease and decide the appropriate management. 3'-deoxy-3'-18 F-fluorothymidine (18F FLT) is a tracer being extensively evaluated currently and is said to represent tumor proliferation. Common sites of metastases from lung cancer in...

patients and methods this retrospective study used a database of a cr ward of a hospital in iran. the demographic and clinical information of 574 patients participating in the cr program from april 2005 through april 2010 were analyzed. in order to determine the predictors of anxiety, binary logistic regression was performed. results after adjustment for gender, age and education, the results s...

Heart failure and cancer are the deadliest diseases worldwide. Murine models for cardiac remodeling heart demonstrate that dysfunction promotes progression metastasis spread. Yet, no information is available on whether how tumor affects remodeling. Here, we examined following transverse aortic constriction (TAC) in presence or absence of proliferating cells. We show tumor-bearing mice, two diff...