n 1951, the feeling of frustration regarding the inadequacy f the antemortem diagnosis of cardiac masses was summaized by Pritchard (1) in a review of tumors of the heart: Tumors of the heart are rarely diagnosed before autopsy. urgical treatment of these neoplasms is virtually unheard f, and the present state of diagnosis is far behind the herapeutic possibilities. Several authors have wholehe...

Primary heart neoplasms are rare occurring with an estimated incidence of 0.0017-0.19%. Myxoma is the most prevalent primary heart tumor. The right atrium is an unusual localization, occurring only in 15-20% of myxoma cases. We report a rare case of a massive right atrial myxoma causing tricuspid valve obstruction and presenting as syncope and exertional dyspnea. This case illustrates the influ...

The heart is regularly involved in metastatic neoplasms with cardiac metastases being found in up to 20 % of autopsies. We present a case about a 42-year-old Caucasian female with a fatal metastatic melanoma to the heart. The five- year survival rate for stage IV melanoma (melanoma with metastases to other organs) is 15 to 20 %. If patients with malignant melanoma present with new onset of card...

Mortality among employees of selected enterprises in which excellent health care programmes are carried on, was observed to evaluate employees' health levels and to establish objectives for future health care programmes. Also, these data were compared with those for all Japanese and for Japanese employees belonging to the corresponding occupational groups. Seventy-three enterprises which contin...

Introduction: This report presents 2011-2012 data on leading causes of death in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Province. Methods: Data in this report are based on information from all death certificates filed in the 31 provinces in 2011-2012 . Causes of death classified by the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD–10) are ranked a...

lipoma is the most common soft tissue tumor but the presence of osseous component within the tumor is quite rare. some studies show that less than 1% of lipomas were ossified. we describe the histological, radiological and diagnostic features of an ossified intramuscular lipoma. to the best of the authors' knowledge, a symptomatic ossified intramuscular lipoma without any cortical erosion and h...

FOLLOWING THE INITIAL REPORTS of de novo malignancies in transplant recipients in 1968,1-3 an informal tumor registry for such cases was established in Denver.4 To date, accounts of malignant neoplasms in 39 renal recipients have been compiled from our own program or else submitted by a number of other groups to this registry (Tables 1 and 2). One patient has developed a carcinoma of the stomac...