although splenic metastasis is fairly common in disseminated cancer, solitary splenic metastasis in the absence of diffuse dissemination is rare. we report a case of 44 year-old man who developed isolated splenic metastasis of colon cancer. the patient had undergone right sided hemicolectomy for colon cancer in 1988. in 2001, he underwent reoperation because of local recurrence of tumor in the ...

background: osteopoikilosis (opk) is a rare inherited condition of the bones, transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait characterized by numerous hyperostotic areas that tend to localize in periarticular osseous regions. it is usually asymptomatic and is often diagnosed incidentally during x-rays made by other reasons. we present a case of 34-year-old man suffering from polyarthralgia and low ...

background: there has been increasing trend towards surgical treatment of metastases across different cancer types, including breast cancer, in the recent decade. single metastasis of breast cancer to sternum is a rare situation. we present a case of sternectomy for metastasis from breast cancer. case presentation: a 58-year-old woman with a history of modified radical mastectomy for breast can...

introduction: metastatic lesions of the oral cavity are extremely rare, accounting for approximately 1% of all malignant oral tumors. the most common primary sources of metastatic tumors in the oral region are, from the most to the least common, the breast, lung, kidney, bone, and colon. renal cell carcinoma accounts for nearly 3% of all adult malignancies. it usually metastasizes to the lungs,...

there are few reported cases of endobronchial metastasis of pheochromocytoma literature. we present here a 56-year old woman who underwent left lower lobectomy of lung, following pneumonia with unresolved chest radiographs. computed tomography showed a lobulated soft tissue mass, measuring, 38×27 mm, at the perivascular space of anterior mediastinum. the resected specimen, showed lobulated tumo...

lymph node (ln) metastasis is considered an important prognostic factor in patients with prostate cancer. the aim of this study was to determine the rate of ln metastasis among an iranian population who underwent radical prostatectomy (rp) with pelvic ln dissection (plnd). in a retrospective review of medical records, 450 rp cases were included and the data on ln metastasis were extracted from ...

Introducción: El seno frontal es una estructura compleja y desafiante en términos quirúrgicos, siendo descritas numerosas técnicas para su abordaje. Dentro de ellas se destaca el abordaje endoscópico extendido frontal: Draf IIB III, como importante alternativa resolución patología refractaria frontal.

Metastasis means the dissemination of the cancer cells from one organ to another which is not directly connected to the primary site. Metastasis has a crucial role in the prognosis of cancer patients. A few theories, different types of cell and several molecular pathways have been proposed to explain the mechanism of metastasis. In this work, the related articles in the limited period of time, ...