Background: Repeated intracranial hemorrhages caused by cardiac myxoma is very rare. It is essential for physicians to be aware of such uncommon clinical feature of myxoma. Case presentation: We report a-49-year-old female patient complained of repeated multiple intracranial hemorrhages, with no sign of cardiac dysfunction or cerebral infarction before admission. Cavernous angioma (CA) was misd...

Normal epithelial cells undergo apoptosis upon detachment from the extracellular matrix, a process termed "anoikis." However, malignant epithelial cells with metastatic potential resist anoikis and can survive in an anchorage-independent fashion. Molecules that sensitize resistant cells to anoikis will be useful chemical probes to understand this pathway. To identify novel anoikis sensitizers i...

TOPIC: Lung Cancer TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Endometrial cancer (EC) is among the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in female patients. Its incidence has increased through years, being approximately 49,560 cases and 8,190 from EC 2013, to 63,230 new 11,350 2018. fourth most common fifth cause death females. Metastasis with usual sites lymph nodes, omentum, ...

Objectives: A 36-year-old Asian man was referred to our hospital with cardiac metastasis. He had a history of alveolar soft part sarcoma and initially underwent resection in 2005. Methods: After exposing the tumor by thoracotomy, cryoablation was performed under ultrasound guidance. This treatment was combined with iodine-125 seed implantation to treat the cardiac metastasis. Results: The patie...

PURPOSE This study evaluates the prevalence of cardiac metastases in patients with serotonin producing neuroendocrine tumours (NET), examined with 18F-FDOPA PET/CT, and the relationship of these metastases to the presence of carcinoid heart disease (CHD) based on echocardiography. BACKGROUND CHD occurs in patients with serotonin producing NET. The diagnostic method of choice remains echocardi...

An 80-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with palpitations and shortness of breath. She had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) one year ago. A physical examination revealed a 2/6 systolic murmur on the left sternal border. Her pulse was weak and irregular at a rate of 170 bpm. Her blood pressure was taken as 90/50 mmHg. An ECG showed wide QRS complexes. She...

We report a rare case of a patient suffering from cardiac metastasis with tongue carcinoma. A 71-year-old Japanese man was admitted to our clinic at Tottori University Hospital in June 1997. We diagnosed his disease as stage T2 N2 M0 squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue, and performed a partial resection of the tongue and a rightside radical neck dissection. The postoperative course was uneven...

Despite cardiac metastases are found in about 20% of cancer deaths, the presence of primary cardiac tumors is rare. Most primary tumors are benign, and malignant tumors comprise about 15%. We report a 21-year-old man with fever, dyspnea, and hemoptysis that was diagnosed with angiosarcoma of the right atrium and pulmonary metastasis. Patient was submitted to surgical tumor resection without adj...

Cardiac tumors are a rare entity, comprised of tumors with diverse histology and natural history. We report the clinical characteristics, echocardiograhic findings, therapy and outcome of 59 patients with primary and metastatic cardiac tumors. Our institutional echocardiogram data base from 1993 through 2005 was reviewed to identify patients diagnosed with intra-cardiac tumor. A total of 59 pat...

Methods CMR based multi-modality imaging including echocardiogram, cardiac MRI, as well as PET-CT were performed as for patients with suspected cardiac mass. Management strategy was decided according to patient basic status (age and surgical risk) as well as characteristics of the mass derived from multi-modality imaging including location, morphology, border, metastasis or not, tissue characte...