background colorectal cancer (crc) is one of the most common cancers worldwide which is not extensively researched in iran. objectives the present study aims to investigate the epidemiologic characteristics of crc in patients referred to selected hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences. patients and methods in this descriptive-analytic study 218 patients with colorectal cancer were i...

We present a 67-year-old male in whom a screening colonoscopy revealed an ulcerated polypoid lesion 35 cm from the anal margin. The biopsy was unspecific. CT and virtual colonography showed a 4.5 x 3.6 x 3.7 cm polypoid mass in the left colon with regional adenopathies but no distant metastases. The patient was admitted to the emergency department for rectorrhage and abdominal pain. Ultrasonogr...

Background: This study aimed to present and analyze the causes of death in Korean population 2019.Methods: Based on Standard Classification Diseases Causes Death International Statistical Related Health Problems, 10th revision, cause-of-death data for 2019 from Statistics Korea were examined.Results: There 295,110 total deaths, a decrease 3,710 (-1.27%) 2018. The crude rate (the number deaths p...

primitive neuroectodermal tumor (pnet) is usually an aggressive, rapidly progressing and metastasizing tumor. occurrence of this type of tumor in the kidney is considered as unusual and few cases have been reported so far. we present a metastatic pnet arising probably from the kidney in a 17-year-old female patient with local invasion and metastasis to the stomach. pnet should be considered as ...

intraocular metastatic tumors have been increasingly reported in the recent past. unlike choroidal metastasis, metastasis to retina is very rare and so far has been reported in very few case reports only. case presentation : a 56 year-old male who presented with a history of adenocarcinoma of the cecum and underwent lap colectomy for the primary cecal tumor, received adjuvant chemotherapy for a...

Breast metastases from extramammary neoplasms are extremely rare, and even more so is metastasis of colon cancer to the breast. Despite its rarity, metastatic disease to the breast is an important diagnostic issue because its treatment differs greatly from that of primary cancer. Proper diagnosis of this rare event requires an accurate clinical history, proper immunohistochemical workup, and a ...

Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) were evaluated in many cancers like ovarian tumors, endometrial colon cancer and melanoma. Now there is increasing trend evaluating TILs breast cancer. gives the patients immune response to tumor. 100 cases of Modified radical mastectomy specimen chosen from surgical pathology records. The representative formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue samples colle...

m h m a s b The ASGE Technology Committee provides reviews of existing, new, or emerging endoscopic technologies that have an impact on the practice of GI endoscopy. Evidencebased methodology is used, performing a MEDLINE literature search to identify pertinent clinical studies on the topic and a MAUDE (U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health) database searc...

CONTEXT Epithelioid hemangioma or angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia is an uncommon benign vascular neoplasm that is usually located on the face or neck. Exceptionally, it has been described affecting the colon, with only two such cases described in the worldwide literature. The aim here was to present a case of primary epithelioid hemangioma of the sigmoid colon with confirmation by i...

BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer remains a huge diagnostic and therapeutic issue in Poland and worldwide. World epidemiological data indicates a constant increase in morbidity in recent decades. OBJECTIVES The aim of this research was to present surgical procedures in malignant and benign colorectal neoplasms based on authors' clinical data. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between 2001 and 2010, in the 1s...