The CA 19.9 antigen is a glycoprotein synthesized in several epithelia that is typically high in the serum of patients with pancreatic tumors. Thus, levels above 300 U/l have a positive predictive value of about 90%.1 Other tumors (bile duct, gastric, colon, hepatic, ovarian, endometrial, pulmonary, or urothelial) or different benign processes (hepatitis, cirrhosis, cholangitis, cholecystitis, ...

The CA 19.9 antigen is a glycoprotein synthesized in several epithelia that is typically high in the serum of patients with pancreatic tumors. Thus, levels above 300 U/l have a positive predictive value of about 90%.1 Other tumors (bile duct, gastric, colon, hepatic, ovarian, endometrial, pulmonary, or urothelial) or different benign processes (hepatitis, cirrhosis, cholangitis, cholecystitis, ...

Metastatic cardiac tumors are more common than the primary cardiac tumors. Cervical cancer metastasizing outside of the pelvis is commonly spread to the lungs, liver, bones and lymph nodes than to the heart. Right-sided metastasis to the heart is more common than to the left side. Intramural spread is more common than intracavitary growth of metastatic cardiac tumors leading to delayed clinical...

Metastatic tumors to the heart unlike primary cardiac tumors are not rare. Despite its frequency, cardiac metastasis is commonly detected only during autopsy as the symptoms of disseminated metastasis prevail over symptoms caused by cardiac metastasis and hence is overlooked most of the time. Tumors more commonly found metastasizing to the heart are malignancies of lung, breast, esophagus, lymp...

We report on a sarcoma of the central pulmonary arteries. Surgical therapy consisted in replacing both main pulmonary arteries and the pulmonary trunk including the pulmonary valve. Six months later a left-sided pneumonectomy had to be performed due to an intravascular tumor. Fifteen months after first resection treatment, recurrent tumors of the right pulmonary artery and the right ventricle w...

We report an exceptionally rare case of synchronous, bilateral, peripheral, small-sized typical pulmonary carcinoid tumors. A 68-year-old man presented with three, bilateral, pulmonary nodules. These nodules were suspected to be inflammatory changes or tumor metastases; however, preoperative examinations indicated neither primary lesion nor lymphadenopathy. Wedge resection was performed for the...

Primary pulmonary artery angiosarcomas are rare malignant tumors with few reported survivors. We report a case of a 39-year-old woman without evidence of disease 5 years after initial diagnosis and after multiple metastasectomies and pulmonary artery tumor endarterectomy.

conclusions a right atrium myxoma in a patient with a history of multiple soft tissue tumors has been limited to only a few cases. this may suggest a genomic affinity or similarity; if so, those with multiple different type soft tissue masses should be screened for a heart mass before the mass becomes complicated. introduction heart secondary tumors are much more common than primary tumors. the...

BACKGROUND Parenchyma-sparing procedures are widely used in patients with low-grade malignancies of the airway when anatomically suited lesions exist. This study was conducted to evaluate the short-term and the long-term results of bronchoplastic procedures for patients with centrally located primary bronchopulmonary tumors. METHODS Between 2000 and 2009, 36 patients with primary lung tumors ...

Pulmonary emboli are frequent causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with brain tumors. Treatment options are limited in these complex patients. We report a case of successful acute pulmonary embolectomy in a patient with an advanced brain cancer.