A case-control study was undertaken to study lung cancer in relation to dietary habits, occupational exposure, and living in urban or country areas. Suspect lung cancer cases in West Sweden and population controls were interviewed using a food frequency questionnaire. The study comprised 177 female and 359 male cases and 916 controls. The cases mainly comprised former and current smokers (82% f...

background & objectives: tumor diathesis (td) is defined as granular proteinaceous precipitates on slide surface of cytologic smears. it is found in the background of smears of invasive carcinoma but not in all cases. the aim of present study was to determine the prevalence of td in cervicovaginal smears from patients with uterine cervix carcinoma. methods: cytological smears and histologi...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: NMD: Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay; ISE: Intronic Splicing Enhancer; ESE: Exonic Splicing Enhancer; ISS: Intronic Splicing Silencer; ESS: Exonic Splicing Silencer; PTC: Premature Termination Codon; ASC: Adenosquamous Carcinoma; NAS: Nonsense-associated Altered Splicing; NASRE: NonsenseAssociated Altered Splicing of a Remote Exon; ASO: ...

A 79-year old male with lung nodules on chest computed tomography underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic-surgical middle lobe wedge resection, with pathology proven adenosquamous carcinoma. Repeat video-assisted thoracoscopic-surgical-biopsy was performed for recurrent disease. Subsequent staging computed tomography revealed herniation of the gallbladder through the abdominal wall (Figs 1 and 2...

A 5-year-old girl with no preexisting systemic or CNS neoplasm presented with a large right temporal mass lesion, the histopathology of which proved to be a poorly differentiated adenosquamous carcinoma, a highly unusual primary intracranial tumor. The tumor recurred despite radical resection, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.

Adenosquamous carcinoma (ASC) is a rare malignant tumor in the head and neck region and usually it occurs as a mucosal carcinoma. The World Health Organization classification1 shows this tumor as a variation of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), whereas the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) classification2 categorized it as a salivary gland tumor. In the AFIP guidelines, the occurrence of ...

OBJECTIVE Primary papillary serous carcinoma (PPSC) of the cervix is rarely recognized, with the aggressive and unpredictable course. Here we report a case of primary adenosquamous papillary serous carcinoma of the cervix in a woman who underwent comprehensive treatment. CASE A 53-year-old woman presented with irregular vaginal bleeding in hospital. The patient with a diagnosis of PPSC by an ...

A 69-year-old woman from a kindred with familial atypical multiple mole melanoma and carrier of a germline mutation in CDKN2A, presented with abdominal pain caused by a solid-cystic pancreatic mass. The patient had an abdominal computed tomography three years before in which there was no evidence of pancreatic lesion. The endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration showed adenocarcinoma...