INTRODUCTION Bronchial carcinomas in childhood and adolescence are extremely rare; only individual cases have been reported previously. CASE PRESENTATION We report on a 16-year-old Caucasian German boy with non-small cell lung carcinoma (squamous cell non-small cell lung carcinoma) stage IV, T4N2M1, without epidermal growth factor receptor overexpression and/or mutation or k-ras mutation. He ...

Miliary mottling on chest radiography is seen in miliary tuberculosis, certain fungal infections, sarcoidosis, coal miner's pneumoconiosis, silicosis, hemosiderosis, fibrosing alveolitis, acute extrinsic allergic alveolitis, pulmonary eosinophilic syndrome, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, and rarely in hematogenous metastases from the primary cancers of the thyroid, kidney, trophoblasts, and so...

This study focuses on the development of small business and private entrepreneurship in the provision of employment for the teaming population of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It is one of the main indicators used in identifying not only the economic situation of the people, but also the lifestyle of the people, especially where they live. One of the main issues affecting the program of employmen...

The local management of stage III non-small cell lung cancer is controversial. Although definitive chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is considered a standard-of-care in the curative management of the disease, inadequate local control outcomes have led to various treatment strategies that incorporate surgical resection. Surgery alone has long been recognized as insufficient for this stage, and thus neoadj...

Recent years have witnessed a number of clinical trials in Stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) comparing (A) induction chemotherapy (CHT) with induction CHT and radiotherapy (RT), each followed by surgery; (B) either induction CHT or induction RT-CHT, each followed by surgery, with definitive RT-CHT (no surgery). Due to the heterogeneity of patient, tumor and treatment characteristics...

How do small business owners learn from experience? Using a cognitive framework, we examine potential impediments to the experiential learning process of small business owner/managers. Supplementing this theory-building exercise, we present illustrative cases and suggest propositions for testing the framework, and perhaps increasing the efficiency of experiential learning among small business o...

What is the magnitude of credit constraint or credit gap affecting small businesses? This paper provides estimates of credit gap, defined as the difference between the desired and actual levels of debt for credit-constrained small businesses using the data from the National Survey of Small Business Finances. The estimated credit gap is approximately 20 percent – credit constrained small busines...

CONTEXT Lung and breast carcinomas are among the most prevalent cancers. Advances in cancer therapies can provide survival benefit and be potentially curative, even in metastatic disease. Due to the high prevalence of these carcinomas, it is not unusual to encounter lung nodule(s) in a patient with breast carcinoma, and distinguishing between primary and metastatic disease is critical for manag...

Seventeen (10 percent) of 176 patients with small-cell carcinoma of the lung seen at this hospital since 1976 proved to have mixed small-cell and non-small-cell tumors. The presence of a mixed lung cancer was established prior to chemotherapy or irradiation in nine patients. Eight were initially diagnosed as pure small-cell carcinoma but proved to have a mixed tumor at either surgery or autopsy...