Bilateral bronchioloalveolar lung carcinoma: is there a place for palliative pneumonectomy?

Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma arising in longstanding lung cysts.

Two adults, both non-smokers, with large peripheral lung cysts, which were of long standing (12 and nine years), were found to have well differentiated mucus secreting adenocarcinomas with a bronchioloalveolar growth pattern associated with the cysts. Lobectomy is likely to have been curative in one of the cases and earlier surgery might have been so in the other. The fact that many of the repo...

Is there still a place for thrombectomy?

Malignancy is known to be a prothrombotic condition , and some antitumor drugs may amplify the hyper-coagulable tendency. We present a female patient with cancer, who developed acute coronary syndrome (ACS) due to occlusive intracoronary thrombus without underlying atherosclerosis. A 59-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer diagnosed 2 years ago, paraneoplastic syndrome and steroid diabe...

Is there a place for animal experiments?

Systemic approaches for multifocal bronchioloalveolar carcinoma: is there an appropriate target?

Bronchioloalveolar carcinoma (BAC) is a subset of pulmonary adenocarcinoma characterized by distinct and unique pathological, molecular, radiographic, and clinical features. While the incidence of pure BAC is rare, comprising only 1% to 4% of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), mixed subtypes (including BAC with focal invasion and adenocarcinoma with BAC features) represent as much as 20% of ad...

Is There a Place for Post-method Pedagogy in the Educational Context of Iran: Voices of EFL Teachers

In an attempt to liberate teachers from deficiencies of the conventional methods, Kumaravadivelu (1994) proposed the concept of “post method condition” to overcome the challenges caused by the very nature of methods. The literature regarding post-method pedagogy has indicated that most of the studies focus on its theoretical aspect, while the practical realization has been largely untouched. To...