Blood and neoplastic diseases. Other purpuras.

Blood and neoplastic diseases. Treatment of the lymphomas.

The term lymphoma is used to describe those primary malignant diseases of lymphoreticular tissue which usually arise in lymph nodes, the diagnosis being made by microscopic examination of biopsy material. The precise histological type is important and a simple classification on which treatment is based is shown in table I. Several diseases have been omitted, such as macroglobu-linaemia, because...

Non-neoplastic asbestos-related respiratory diseases: what relationship with other lung diseases?

Non-neoplastic asbestos-related respiratory diseases in practice are represented by asbestosis and pleural plaques. Clinical features and architectural tissue abnormalities of asbestosis do not differ from those of other causes of interstitial fibrosis which allows a confident diagnosis without a history of significant exposure to asbestos. But the relationship between non-neoplastic asbestos-r...

Neoplastic diseases and rheumatic syndromes

Coexistence of rheumatic and neoplastic diseases may take different forms. Rheumatic paraneoplastic syndromes, including systemic sclerosis, scleroderma-like changes and Raynaud’s phenomenon are induced by substances secreted by neoplastic cells and immunological disturbances connected are associated with malignancy. They may precede the clinical manifestation of neoplasm, occur simultaneously ...

Avian Neoplastic Diseases

Diseases of the Large Intestine — Neoplastic diseases —

Neoplastic lesions of the large intestine are increasing in Japan in conjunction with the changes in the dietary life of the population. Exact diagnosis of the diseases of the large intestine are still being debated. However, recent advances in diagnostic imaging provide improved diagnosis of neoplastic lesions of the large intestine without undue stress on the patient. In this paper, recent di...