the aim of this study was to evaluate antitumour activity of the roots of hibiscus tiliaceus linn. against dalton’s ascitic lymphoma (dal) in swiss albino mice. a significant enhancement of mean survival time (mst) of h. tiliaceus treated tumour bearing mice was found with respect to control group. h. tiliaceus treatment was found to enhance peritoneal cell counts. when these h. tiliaceus treat...

Cystic tumours of the atrioventricular node (sometimes called ‘‘benign mesotheliomas of the atrioventricular node’’) are rare lesions associated with sudden cardiac death. 2 A recent case provided several informative points regarding the nature of this lesion and best practice methodology within the coroner’s necropsy. A 31 year old man, training for a marathon, collapsed and died suddenly with...

Since 1980, 11 examples of cardiac tumour have been detected in the fetus out of a total of 794 congenital cardiac malformations. Patients were referred because of fetal hydrops in two, a family history of tuberous sclerosis in two, and because of the detection of a tumour mass during a scan at the local hospital in seven. The gestational age range at presentation was from 20-34 weeks. Of eight...

We present a case of a 70 year-old male with B-cell lymphoma of which the first clinical presentation was cardiac infiltration. The patient underwent full chemotherapy with complete tumour regression. Kardiol Pol 2011; 69, 10: 1063-1065.

Cardiac surgery is associated with the development of a systemic inflammatory response. The cytokine response in cardiac surgery patients is well explained and is dominated by the pro-inflammatory cytokines tumour necrosis factor (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-8 (IL-8), and the antiinflammatory cytokine interleukin-10 (IL-10). The release of these cytokines has been related to the d...

Background Cardiac MRI (CMRI) is considered the “gold” standard for non-invasive characterization of cardiac function and viability as it allows the assessment of regional and global cardiac function, mass, volumes, myocardial perfusion, and tissue characterization. With its excellent soft-tissue differentiation, CMRI is the most important imaging modality for differentiating tumour from thromb...

We describe a unique case of a patient with a 'pigmented' cardiac paraganglioma in a multiple paraganglioma syndrome. She was symptomatic for arrhythmias, hypertensive crises and dyspnoea due to a cardiac tumour, which was richly vascularised from the right coronary artery and was partially obstructing the right atrioventricular inflow. She was operated on, but the mass was not completely resec...

OBJECTIVES To explore the rule of subcarinal lymph node metastasis in thoracic oesophageal cancer and its clinical significance in the radical resection of oesophageal cancer. METHODS We retrospectively analysed 2223 patients with oesophageal cancer who were admitted to Henan Cancer Hospital during 2004-2011 and underwent surgery as the first treatment option. Routine subcarinal lymph node di...

objective: cd44+/cd24-/low breast cancer cells have tumour-initiating properties with stem cell-like features. breast cancer gene 1 (brca1) is a tumour suppressor gene that plays a crucial role in dna repair and maintenance of chromosome stability. the clinicopathological features of breast cancer in brca1 mutation carriers suggest that brca1 may function as a stem-cell regulator. materials and...

Tumours of odontogenic origin have been reported in various domestic animals. Ameloblastic fibroodontomais a rare tumour derived from odontogenic epithelium and pulpal mesenchyme. Plain andformalised sections from masses on the front of the cranial aspect of the jaw and the end of the tongue of acastrated beef cattle from an abattoir was submitted to Mt Pleasant laboratories, Launceston, Austra...