Malignant Lymphoma: Appropriate Treatment Choices

Malignant pleural effusions: appropriate treatment approaches.

Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) is a common and important clinical condition. A complication in many types of tumors, its presence indicates the onset of the terminal stages of cancer. Dyspnea is the most common symptom of MPE. The most common underlying tumors are lymphomas and cancers of the lung, breast and ovaries, which account for 75% of cases. The diagnosis of MPE can be established by ...

PRIMARY MALIGNANT LYMPHOMA OF THE BREAST

A case of primary malignant non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the breast is reported. This is the first well-documented case of breast lymphoma in our institution and also in Iran. The diagnosis of primary breast lymphoma requires the presence of lymphomatous infiltration in close ass, tissue in patients with neither previous lymphoma nor concurrent lymphoma in another site. There is no definite cl...

Tumours, Innocent and Malignant, Their Clinical Features and Appropriate Treatment

Appropriate Microplanning Choices for Low-Skilled Readers

We have developed a set of microplanning choice rules which are intended to enable Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems to generate appropriate texts for readers with below-average literacy, focusing in particular on choices related to how discourse structure is expressed (cue phrases, ordering, sentence structure). Evaluation experiments suggest that our rules do enhance the readability o...

[Malignant lymphoma].

Malignant lymphoma is classified roughly into Hodgkin's disease (HD) and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) according to the biological characteristics. Malignant lymphoma in Japan has such characteristics as low incidence of HD, which is usually favorable in prognosis, and high incidence of NHLs, which have further distinctive features of less incidence of favorable follicular B cell lymphoma and of...