RATIONALE Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) is a rare, malignant neoplasm, which mostly occurs in the upper and lower extremities. This article presents an unusual case of ASPS involving the penis of a 3-year-old boy. To our knowledge, this is the first case of ASPS in the penis of a child. PATIENT CONCERNS The patient complained of slight penile pain for 1 year and a soft tissue mass could b...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of the Medicare drug benefit (Part D) on the distribution of out-of-pocket pharmacy spending among older adults. METHODS We used a pre-post-with-comparison-group design to compare four groups of beneficiaries continuously enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan between 2004 and 2007: three intervention groups with no or limited (quarterly caps of $150 or $350) pr...

Lung metastases are frequently the mode of presentation of alveolar soft part sarcoma,' a rare tumour of the skeletal muscles of the thigh and arm occurring between the ages of about 20 and 30 years, with a female predominance.2 Although the pathological features of this tumour are fairly characteristic, it is the demonstration by electron microscopy of typical intracellular crystals that is pa...

Skeletal muscle is remarkably free of neoplasms despite its great body mass. Metastatic tumors to skeletal muscle are distinctly uncommon. Primary myogenous tumors (defined as those whose cytoplasm contains myofibrils) are infrequent, compared to primary lesions of supporting stroma and vascular origin. Almost all non-myogenic tumors of striated muscle occur also in other areas of the body and ...

excessive alveolar bone resorption is commonly found when teeth are extracted. this is a problem in anterior part of mouth because it will result in an unaesthetic pontic on a narrow hollowed out alveolar ridge. yet, another problem is gingival recession and root exposure in adjacent teeth which represent a therapeutic problem to the clinician. use of acellular dermal matrix graft is an appropr...

A case of alveolar soft-part sarcoma with multiple cerebral metastases in addition to multiple lung and bone metastases is reported. This is a rare tumor which thus far has only been recognized as a malignant soft tissue tumor with great uncertainty. A 24-year-old man with a chief complaint of left frontal headache was admitted to our unit on September 26, 1994. A tumor of the right forearm had...