results: among 11 patients who underwent surgery consisted of eight males and three females. their metastasis originated from testis tumors (n = 5), renal cell carcinoma (rcc; n = 4), bladder tumor (n = 1), and prostate cancer (n = 1). their mean age was 41.27 years (range, 21-67). the mean age of the patients with rcc and testis tumor at the time of diagnosing metastasis was 54 and 24.8 years,...

www.onk.ns.ac.rs/Archive Vol 20, No. 3-4, December 2012 PET IMAGING IN ESOPHAGEAL CARCINOMA Esophageal carcinoma is a relatively rare disease with approximately 13,200 new cases detected in 2001 in the United States (1). It is most common between 50 and 60 years of age with a male to female ratio of 4:1 (2). According to the SEER database, an annual age-adjusted incidence rate is 4.5 per 100,00...

Double layered self-expanding metal stents (SEMSs) are an effective treatment when placed across the gastroesophageal junction for malignant esophageal obstructions. Thedouble layer provides effective prevention of stent migration, with the advantages of a covered stent [1]. However, should the stent migrate, the double layer makes endoscopic removal more difficult. A 79-year-old manwith sympto...

A 67-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with worsening odynophagia. He had been diagnosed as having chronic neutrophilic leukemia based on excessive neutrophilia without blasts, anemia, hyperplastic bonemarrowwith normal neutrophilic maturation, and hepatosplenomegaly, without bcr/abl rearrangement [1]. Finally, he was rediagnosed as having myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), unclassifiab...

Four thousand eighty inbred rats were maintained from weaning on various different concentrations of N-nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA) or N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). The principal aim was to characterize the dose-response relationship for the effects of these agents on esophageal cancer (NDEA) or on various types of liver cancer (NDEA and NDMA), although NDEA also caused a few tumors of the nasop...

Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuroradiculopathy (CIDP) is an immune mediated disorder characterized by progressive developing or relapsing symmetrical motor or sensory symptoms in more than one limb over a period of two months. Achalasia, as a primary esophageal motility disorder, is also characterized by increasing the tone of lower esophageal sphincter, absence or incomplete sphinct...

  Introduction: Esophageal Squamous-Cell Carcinoma (SCC) is one of the most common malignancies in Iran. To reduce the incidence of esophageal SCC, it is important to recognize the controllable risk factors and prevent them. Celiac disease is widely known as a possible risk factor for esophageal SCC.  Thus, we decided to assess the frequency of celiac disease in esophageal SCC patients in North...