objectives this study aimed at reviewing the current literature on the diagnosis, staging, and different treatment strategies for wilms’ tumor with either ureteral or intravascular extension. evidence acquisition in this article, we reviewed the current literature about staging, diagnosis, and management strategies for wt, through a randomized clinical trial, which focused on this matter. the m...

calcifying fibrous tumor (cft) is a rare mesenchymal tumor, affecting children and young adults with a predilection for the soft tissue and the abdominal cavity. cft of the tubular gastrointestinal tract is very rare with less than 20 cases of gastric cfts reported in english literature. this benign hypocellular fibrosclerotic calcifying lesion can resemble other spindle cell tumors particularl...

purpose : to review periocular dermoid cysts to determine distribution of demographic factors, and tumor location methods : in this retrospective, observational case series in a tertiary-care hospital, we reviewed all cases of histopathologically verified periocular dermoid cysts at our institution between 2003 and 2011. the study endpoints included: age, gender, and tumor location. results : t...

malignant germ-cell tumors (mgct) are rare tumors of childhood accounting for less than 3% of pediatric malignancies. endodermal sinus tumor (est) forms the most common histologic subtype of mgct. the vagina is an extremely rare site for gcts. an 8-month-old female was admitted with a short history of vaginal bleeding, and a mass protruding from the vagina. she was pale and a mass was palpable ...

purpose: to recognize affective factors in delivering x-ray contrast agents (which have high atomic number) via gallium carrier to liver or lymphatic neoplasm cells.   materials and methods: since uptake of gallium by liver has been reported in numerous researches, it was bonded with a contrast media (metrizoate). x-ray imaging was done to determine geometric features of liver.   results: radio...

background: alteration in peripheral blood lymphocytes (pbls) is usually investigated to provide an evidence of the host immune responses to tumor antigens. the tumor infiltrating nk cells interact most closely with the tumor cells and more accurately reflect tumor host interactions. objective: to analyze peripheral blood and tumor associated natural killer (nk) cells in patients with breast ca...