Primary malignant mediastinal teratoma is a rare tumour previously regarded as inevitably fatal. In a series of eight male patients with a mean age of 24 years five remain alive and well. All patients showed raised serum concentrations of human chorionic gonadotrophin or alpha fetoprotein. The patients were treated with intermittent combination chemotherapy that included cisplatin. Six patients...

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Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a debilitating complication associated with drug treatment of cancer. For which there are no effective strategies of prevention or treatment. In this study we examined the effect of intermittent expression of neurotophin-3 (NT-3) or interleukin 10 (IL-10) from replication-defective herpes simplex virus (HSV)-based regulatable vectors delivere...

Malignant lymphoma is a malignant tumor that occurs in the lymphocytes but can also occur anywhere body. On other hand, lymphomas originating from nasopharyngeal space are very rare. We experienced case of 84-year-old female patient with huge mass, who had no complaints than right nasal congestion, intermittent rhinorrhea, and sneezing. A physical examination revealed large, polypoid, transpare...

BACKGROUND Primary oral mucosal melanoma is uncommon. However, it is an aggressive entity, and the absence of a standardized treatment protocol makes for an extremely poor prognosis. METHODS We described the clinical course and treatment by arterial chemotherapy of an 87-year-old patient with nonresectable huge buccal malignant melanoma. Continuous intra-arterial infusion of fluorouracil (50 ...

Twenty-seven patients with clinically primary tuberculous pericarditis were treated with prolonged chemotherapy consisting of intermittent doses of streptomycin and daily doses of paraminosalicylic acid or isoniazid. Twenty-one patients did well and were symptom-free six months to three years later. Five, one of whom died, developed constrictive pericarditis. Another died of widely disseminated...

A 20-year-old man was referred for intermittent fever associated with weight loss and progressive dyspnoea that were unresponsive to empirical antibiotics and anti-tuberculous chemotherapy. A diagnosis of pleuropulmonary sarcoidosis was eventually made histologically via a thoracotomy and the patient improved with corticosteroid therapy.