1 Hospital Albert Einstein, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. Autor correspondente: Guilherme Fleury Perini – Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Istituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa, Avenida Albert Einstein, 627/701, Bloco A – Morumbi – CEP: 05652-900 – São Paulo, SP, Brasil – Tel.: (11) 2151-8709 – E-mail: [email protected] Data de submissão: 2/8/2012 – Data de aceite: 24/2/2013 Figura 1. Tomogra...

Inflammatory polyneuropathy may be associated with various tumorous diseases, including hematological malignancy. A 50-year-old man visited neurologic department complaining of bilateral lower extremities weakness, tingling sensation and weight loss. Initially he was diagnosed as demyelinating sensorimotor after performing the nerve conduction study, furthermore myelodysplastic syndrome reveale...

Hepatitis B (HBV) reactivation induced by chemotherapy is problem encountered recently in the management of malignant diseases. Chemotherapy-induced HBV reactivation may ultimately lead to terminal acute liver failure. Liver transplantation (LT) currently remains the only definitive treatment option for such cases, but is generally denied to patients suffering from malignancy. Here, the authors...

The B7 family consists of structurally related, cell-surface proteins that regulate immune responses by delivering costimulatory or coinhibitory signals through their ligands. Eight family members have been identified to date including CD80 (B7-1), CD86 (B7-2), CD274 (programmed cell death-1 ligand [PD-L1]), CD273 (programmed cell death-2 ligand [PD-L2]), CD275 (inducible costimulator ligand [I...

The reported incidence of synchronous multiple primary cancer (SMPC) is rare, and it is even less common to observe synchronous solid tumor with a hematological malignancy. We report five cases of solid tumor presented synchronously with hematological malignancy, all observed within a 2 year period at the oncology department of a university hospital in Shanghai, China. These individual cases in...

BMT: bone marrow transplantation CLL: chronic lymphocytic leukemia EF: eosinophilic folliculitis NHL: non-Hodgkin lymphoma SCT: stem cell transplantation WBC: white blood cell INTRODUCTION Well-recognized variants of eosinophilic folliculitis (EF), also known as eosinophilic pustular folliculitis, include Ofuji disease, infantile EF, and HIV-associated EF, which is considered a defining illness...

Candida lusitaniae is an infrequent cause of fungemia. We identified 12 cases of C. lusitaniae fungemia that occurred at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1988 to 1999. The mean age of patients was 48 years (range 20--70 years). Eight patients had hematologic malignancy or had received a bone marrow transplant, and 4 had a solid tumor. Most patients (75%) were neutropeni...