A 68-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer, who had undergone left quadrantectomy 24 years prior, had suffered from palmoplantar pustulosis (PPP) and pain in multiple joints and bones for 3 years. Technetium bone scanning showed increased uptake in the sternum, sternocostoclavicular joint, cervical vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, and right knee (Picture 1, left). A radiograph of the lumba...

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed visceral cancer in the United States. A majority of cases exhibit an insidious course and nonaggressive tumor behavior. Prostate cancer can manifest as lesions which remain localized, regionally invading or metastasize to lymph nodes, bones, and lungs. Here, we report a unique case of metastatic prostate cancer to the right upper mediastinum, prese...

conclusions the results of our study indicate that for patients who are scheduled for hip surgery, both continuous paravertebral and continuous epidural analgesia are effective in controlling postoperative pain but that the former has several crucial advantages. results mean arterial pressure was significantly lower in the epidural group compared with the paravertebral group from 2 hours after ...

Extra Osseous Ewing's Sarcoma (EES) has been considered a distinct clinicopathological entity despite its striking ultrastructural similarity to Ewing's Sarcoma of Bone (ESB) and same translocation involving band ql2 of chromosome 22(1,2) Today more than 150 cases of EES in different locations have been described, for example, larynx, scalp, nasal fossa, neck, chest wall, lung, perineum, finger...

The authors report a case of an adolescent with a poorly differentiated lymphoma of unknown origin located at paravertebral muscles, whose presently symptom was low back pain.

Paravertebral muscles play an important role in the development of deformities and degenerative diseases spine. The impact posterior arthrodesis ileosacral articulation (sacrum-iliac joint) on morphological characteristics m. sacrocaudalis (coccygeus) dorsalis lateralis mongrel dogs was studied animal experiments. Titanium cages were used, followed by stabilization with external fixation device...

BACKGROUND Paravertebral analgesia is useful for breast surgery. Patient controlled analgesia by IV or epidural routes is well established for delivering postoperative analgesia. Our objective was to apply patient control to paravertebral analgesia and evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of two distinct dosing regimens. METHODS Patients undergoing major breast cancer surgery were recruited...