We describe a case of spinal leptomeningeal metastases of an astrocytoma of the conus medullaris that presented with quadriplegia. The patient was a 50-year-old woman with a previously treated astrocytoma of the conus medullaris and a spinal cord metastasis at the Th2-L level. Four years after the initial treatment, the patient developed weakness of the upper extremities with a decreased muscul...

Neoplasm is the cause of a double disease body, i.e. with two faces (Janus disease), which means both presence cancer cells and secondary disorders immune system function caused by them. The second possibility temporary decrease in immunity, e.g. influenza, revealing neoplastic disease. Neoplasms are induced genetic epigenetic factors (Fig. 1), giving different types mono- polyclonal metastases...

A 69-year-old woman was diagnosed with stage IIIA advanced Type IV Klatskin cholangiocarcinoma, which was treated with radical choledochectomy, extended right hepatectomy and left hepaticojejunostomy. About six months after surgery, she presented with painless jaundice. A 2-18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (F18-FDG PET-CT) was performed, which detect...

malignant tumors of the oral cavity which are metastatic are very rare and consist of 1% of malignancies of the oral cavity. numbness or paresthesia of the lower lip or the chin is the main feature of presence of metastasis in the jaw. our patient was a 38 year old woman with chief complaint of pain in the right half of her face, jaw and teeth. her medical history revealed a radical mastectomy ...

abstract: gestational trophoblastic neoplasm (gtn) is among rare human tumors which can be observed with widespread metastasis. two young patients with emergent neurologic symptoms with no gynecological problems are presented in this report. gtn was later diagnosed in both cases with brain metastasis. the first case: a 22 years old patient, admitted to the infectious disease ward, with probable...

PRIMARY tumours of the patella are rare. Osteoclastoma is the commonest neoplasm and twenty cases have been reported (Goodwin, 1961). Secondary involvement by tumour is most uncommon and may result either from direct spread by a primary sarcoma or a metastasis in the region of the knee joint, or from metastasis of a distant tumour. Thus two cases of metastasis from prostatic carcinoma have been...

Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is the second most common cancer, following papillary carcinoma. Metastasis to orbital rim from FTC very rare. We recently experienced a case of with metastasis in 74-year-old woman, who initially presented huge mass and an asymptomatic solitary lesion. The lesion was suspected be separate disease entity such as lymphoma preoperative imaging, but bone finally ...

Informal lending and savings institutions exist around the world, and often include regular door-to-door deposit collection of cash. Some banks have adopted similar services in order to expand access to banking services in areas that lack physical branches. Using a randomized control trial, we investigate determinants of participation in a deposit collection service and evaluate the impact of o...

we have studied the relation between bank deposit rates and house prices in iran. for that, we have run some var models, using the following variables: real deposit rates (including 1 and 5 years deposit rates), money supply (including the high powered money and the liquidity), gdp, housing services index, and number of licenses for new houses. our results show that a reduction in the deposit r...