the paranasal sinuses are known to be a rare location for metastasis. renal cell carcinoma (rcc) is the most frequent primary tumor to metastasize to the sinonasal region, followed by lung and breast cancer. in particular, clear cell type rcc, which represents approximately 85% of rccs, is characterized by early metastasis, and it sometimes spreads to unusual sites (1, 2). metastatic tumors in ...

background and aim: basal cell carcinoma (bcc) is the most common skin neoplasm and the most common type of cancer. since the incidence of injury is taken into consideration in the pathologic diagnosis, the study of clinical and microscopic views of bcc is of particular importance. the present study aimed at determining the frequency of clinical and microscopic views of bcc in a 10-year period ...

squamous cell carcinoma (scc) is the most common malignancy of the oral cavity. this study aims to evaluate different treatment procedures including neo-adjuvant, concurrent and adjuvant therapy in treating squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck by a meta-analysis.the authors searched all electronic databases (medline, embase and cochrane) for all the articles published from 1970 to janua...

the larvae causing myiasis can lead extensive tissue destruction, invasion into deep tissues and secondary infec­tions. poor hygiene, low socioeconomic condition and presence of open wounds are the most important predisposing factors. this case report describes destructive wound myiasis in a 58-year-old male patient diagnosed with maxillary sinus squamous cell carcinoma who lives in a rural are...

this report is related to a female 7-year-old crossbreed sheep whose right eye had been protruded andswelling of upper eyelid was observed. routine enucleating was performed. histopathological evaluation ofeyelid revealed coincidence of two kinds of neoplasms. the first part was composed of multiple lobules ofsebocytes, which were detected as meibomian adenoma. the second section included infil...

introdouction: oral squamous cell carcinoma (oscc), the most common form of oral cancer, requires early diagnosis and suitable treatments. fascin is a protein involved in cell adhesion and is increased in expression in certain types of carcinomas. the present study was conducted to assess fascin expression in oscc using an immunohistochemical technique. materials and methods: in the present ret...

introduction : pulmonary adenosquamous carcinoma is an uncommon histological variety of bronchogenic carcinoma, and has histologic areas differentiated as both squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma and has clinical behavior more like that of adenocarcinoma. tumor stage is higher at the time of diagnosis, and survival is poorer. case presentation : we present a 65 years old woman with bulgi...

background: oral cancer is among the 10 most common cancers worldwide with an increasing global incidence. compromised antioxidant defense system plays a role in occurrence of cancer. this study evaluated the salivary antioxidant level of oral cancer patients compared to a control group. patients and methods: this case-control study was conducted on 22 oral squamous cell carcinoma patients pres...

conclusions according to the low prevalence of hcmv in oscc, it seems that this virus plays a minor role in this kind of cancer at least in southeast of iran. more comprehensive studies are needed to investigate the oncomodulatory effect of this virus on oscc. results the mean age of the patients (66.7% female and 33.3% male) was 58.6 years. only three cases (6.3%) of the grade i, oscc biopsies...