Abstract Background The association of tuberculosis and motor neuron disease-like illness has not been described previously. We present a case co-existent pulmonary extra-pulmonary in young man whose clinical presentation was suggestive subsequently diagnosed with tubercular infection. This provokes our thought as to whether the between dysfunction just co-incidence, given high prevalence set-u...

BACKGROUND Electrochemotherapy is a local anticancer treatment very efficient for treatment of small cutaneous metastases. The method is now being investigated for large cutaneous recurrences of breast cancer that are often confluent masses of malignant tumour with various degrees of inflammation. To this end 18-Flourine-Flourodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (FDG-P...

BACKGROUND In this study we aimed to determine the need for 18F-flourodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in the preoperative staging of rectal carcinoma in our large patient group according to level and location of tumor. METHOD Totally, 97 patients diagnosed with primary rectal adenocarcinoma between May 2009 and July 2011 were included in the study....

Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and atherosclerosis share many common inflammatory pathways. Reducing the activity of pathways with immunomodulators may lessen risk cardiovascular disease in RA. As such, a multibiomarker RA (MBDA; AKA Vectra Score) could serve as an indicator treatment-associated improvements atherosclerotic plaque inflammation. Objectives To prospectively evaluate associa...

Ahmad I, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-223449 Description A 43-year-old male with a history of receiving treatment for squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) of lung 2 years back presented with a complaint of a single episode of self-resolving generalised tonic–clonic seizure 1 day prior. General physical and neurological examinations were unremarkable. An MRI of the brain revealed a w...

BACKGROUND Care providers use complementary information from multiple imaging modalities to identify and characterize metastatic tumors in early stages and perform surveillance for cancer recurrence. These tasks require volume quantification of tumor measurements using computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional characterization through positron emission tomograp...

Purpose: Targeted radioimmunotherapy with yttrium-90 (Y)^ labeled ibritumomab tiuxetan (Zevalin, IDEC-Biogen, SanDiego, CA) has shown significant activity in the treatment of relapsed or refractoryCD20+non ^Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Eligibility criteriaused inphase I trials, andadopted in phase II and III trials, excluded patients with prior myeloablative therapy.We treated eight patients with Y ibri...