A 24-year-old black man was found to have bilateral, spontaneously regressed retinoblastoma that had previously been misdiagnosed as post-traumatic chorioretinal scarring. His son and half-brother both had bilateral viable retinoblastoma. The ophthalmoscopic and fluorescein angiographic features of this patient's fundus lesions included a calcified, whitish mass located centrally in one of the ...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a malignant tumor frequently occurring in Koreans. It is well known that the prognosis of HCC is extremely poor. Most patients die within 3-6 months after diagnosis from gastrointest-inal hemorrhage, progress ive cachexia or liver failure 1). S pontaneous regression of HCC is a rare phenomenon and has, to our knowledge, been described in very few patients 2-8)....

Spontaneous regression of cancer is a rare phenomenon seldom described in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. A case of spontaneous regression of hepatocellular carcinoma is reported and compared with the reports published in the English literature. A 52-yr-old man presented with biopsy-proven hepatocellular carcinoma, which was considered to be unresectable at initial laparotomy. The tumor...

BACKGROUND Low back pain is a frequent condition that results in substantial disability and causes admission of patients to neurosurgery clinics. To evaluate and present the therapeutic outcomes in lumbar disc hernia (LDH) patients treated by means of a conservative approach, consisting of bed rest and medical therapy. METHODS This retrospective cohort was carried out in the neurosurgery depa...

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