Browsing by Subject "Computer assisted tomography"
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Forty years experience of treating cancer of unknown primary
(2007)Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP) is not a rare tumour. It accounts as the seventh to eighth most frequently diagnosed cancer in a general medical oncology service. Since CUP is not a homogeneous disease and it consists ...
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Liver metastases from cancer of unknown primary (CUPL): A retrospective analysis of presentation, management and prognosis in 49 patients and systematic review of the literature
(2008)Aim: Patients with liver metastases from cancer of unknown primary (CUPL) have a dismal prognosis. We retrospectively analysed their management and outcome and performed a systematic review of CUPL series published in the ...
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Lung cancer in pregnancy: Report of nine cases from an international collaborative study
(2013)Objective: Lung cancer is an uncommon diagnosis during pregnancy. The combination of smoking in young women, increased maternal age during pregnancy, and increasing incidence of lung cancer worldwide may cause an increase ...
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Management of Gradenigo syndrome in a child
(2010)Background: Gradenigo syndrome is a rare presentation of acute petrositis characterized by medial otitis, retro- orbital pain and abducens nerve palsy (CN VI palsy) affecting the lateral rectus muscle (CN VI palsy), due ...
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Management of leptomeningeal malignancy
(2005)Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is defined as malignant infiltration of the pia matter and arachnoid membrane. Leukaemias and lymphomas, lung, breast cancer and melanoma are the primary tumours commonly associated with ...
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Mutational profiling of the RAS, PI3K, MET and b-catenin pathways in cancer of unknown primary: a retrospective study of the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group
(2014)Cancer of unknown primary origin (CUP) had a poor prognosis, determined by clinico-histological characteristics, partly due to the lack of insights on its biology. We screened tumour DNA from 87 patients with CUP for CTNNB1 ...
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Neuroendocrine Merkel cell nodal carcinoma of unknown primary site: Management and outcomes of a rare entity
(2015)Merkel cell nodal carcinoma of unknown primary (MCCUP) is a rare neuroendocrine tumour with distinct clinical and biological behaviour. We conducted a review of retrospective data extracted from 90 patients focusing on the ...
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Paclitaxel by three-hour infusion and carboplatin in advanced carcinoma of nasopharynx and other sites of the head and neck: A phase II study conducted by the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group
(1997)Background: Paclitaxel has been demonstrated to have significant activity in recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancer (HNC). In addition, the combination of paclitaxel and cisplatin is active in untreated patients with ...
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A patient with neuroendocrine carcinoma of the urinary bladder and paraneoplastic degenerative parencephalitis: A case report and review of the literature
(2014)Neuroendocrine carcinomas of the bladder (small cell, large cell, typical and atypical carcinoids) are rare and usually co exist with urothelial carcinoma. As in small cell carcinoma of the lung, various paraneoplastic ...
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A pregnant patient with adrenocortical carcinoma: Case report
(2012)Background: Coexistence of an adrenocortical carcinoma and pregnancy is extremely rare with only 25 described cases so far, and has a poor prognosis. Case Report: We report the case of a 28-year-old patient with adrenocortical ...
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Rectal metastases from lobular carcinoma of the breast: Report of a case and literature review
(2001)Metastatic involvement of the gastrointestinal (G1) tract secondary to breast cancer is rare. Reported herein is the case of a 74-year-old woman with metastatic lobular breast carcinoma to the rectum presenting with ...
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SPECT imaging and cerebrovascular disease
(2007)Many studies promote both diagnostic and prognostic roles for single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) functional brain imaging in patients with cerebrovascular disease (CVD). SPECT allows in vivo non-invasive ...
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Trabectedin-related rhabdomyolysis: An uncommon but fatal toxicity
(2011)Rhabdomyolysis is defined as the dissolution of striped muscle characterized by the leakage of intracellular muscle components into the circulation, which can ultimately lead to renal failure with a possible fatal outcome. ...
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Tumor volumetry as predictive and prognostic factor in the management of ovarian cancer
(2002)Background: The usefulness of tumor volumetry in ovarian epithelial cancer has never been intensively investigated. The aim of the present study was to determine the value of quantitative analysis of tumor volume as a ...
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The value of 99mTc-ECD spect early after the onset of subarachnoid hemorrhage in predicting symptomatic vasospasm and clinical outcome
(2005)Aim: Investigating the prognostic value of brain perfusion SPECT, within the first few days after Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (SAH) and predicting subsequent development of symptomatic vasospasm and the clinical outcome were ...