Cardiac myxoma is the most common benign tumor of the heart. Complete surgical removal of the myxoma is usually curative. However, low incidence of recurrence and metastasis has been reported with the brain being the most common site of cardiac myxoma metastasis (1). We report a rare case of delayed multiple cerebral metastases from the completely resected cardiac myxoma without evidence of loc...

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is considered the most effective treatment for early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients unsuitable for resection. However, poor outcome after RFA has occasionally been reported worldwide. To predict such an outcome, we investigated imaging findings using contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) with Sonazoid and serum tumor markers before RFA. This study...

OBJECTIVE To study factors possibly associated with tumor contamination in the biopsy path of primary malignant bone tumors. METHOD Thirty-five patients who underwent surgical treatment with diagnoses of osteosarcoma, Ewing's tumor and chondrosarcoma were studied retrospectively. The sample was analyzed to characterize the biopsy technique used, histological type of the tumor, neoadjuvant che...

BACKGROUND Tongue cancer is one of the common cancers in head and neck region. Cervical node metastasis is the strongest poor prognostic factor. Other prognostic factors were also said to be of significance. Our aim was to find out the significant prognostic factors of tumor aggressiveness in Indian perspective. MATERIAL AND METHODS Sixty cases of early cancer of oral tongue with clinically n...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Extended cholecystectomy is generally recommended for patients with T2 gallbladder cancer. However, few studies have assessed the extent of resection relative to T2 gallbladder tumor location. This study analyzed the effects of surgical methods and tumor location on survival outcomes and tumor recurrence in patients with T2 gallbladder cancer. METHODS Clinicopathological chara...

Serum tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRACP) 5b was investigated for use as a marker for diagnosis of giant cell tumor (GCT) of bone and for detection of its recurrence.Four patients with GCT of bone who were initially referred to our hospital were classified as a primary group. Three patients who had local recurrence following curettage were classified as a local recurrence group. Five wi...

Proliferating pilomatricoma is proliferative, rare tumor variant of pilomatricoma. It is a benign neoplasm of hair matrix that can have potentially involve local recurrence. We report the case of a 60-year-old man who presented an asymptomatic nodule on the scalp. Histological exam demonstrated a basaloid epithelium at the periphery, filled with eosinophilic cornified material containing shadow...

PURPOSE Radiotherapy followed by total mesorectal excision surgery has been shown to significantly reduce local recurrence rates in rectal cancer patients. Radiotherapy, however, is associated with considerable morbidity. The present study evaluated the use of biochemical detection of enzymatic caspase-3 activity as preoperative marker for apoptosis to preselect patients that are unlikely to de...

BACKGROUND Modalities of surgical treatment of early glottic carcinoma include transoral laser microresection and external partial surgery. METHODS This is a retrospective analysis of 119 glottic carcinomas treated by external partial surgery (57 pT1a, 1 pT1b, 10 pT2) or transoral laser microresection (46 pT1a, 4 pT1b, 1 pT2) with special regard to initial anterior commissure involvement. R...

PURPOSE To find molecular markers from expression profiling data to predict recurrence of laryngeal cancer after radiotherapy. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We generated gene expression data on pre-treatment biopsies from 52 larynx cancer patients. Patients developing a local recurrence were matched for T-stage, subsite, treatment, gender and age with non-recurrence patients. Candidate genes were then ...