Patients that present with multiple primary malignant neoplasms are increasingly encountered, but the treatment of such patients presents specific challenges and long-term survival is rare. The present study reports the case of a 45-year-old female diagnosed with three rare, distinct primary malignant neoplasms, including epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) of the brain, Ewing's sarcoma of t...

Background: This study analyzed the causes of death in Korean population 2020.Methods: Cause-of-death data for 2020 from Statistics Korea were examined based on Standard Classification Diseases and Causes Death, 7th revision International Statistical Related Health Problems, 10th revision.Results: In total, 304,948 deaths occurred, reflecting an increase 9,838 (3.3%) 2019. The crude rate (the n...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignancy in the world and it usually occurs in individuals with chronic liver disease. The neoplasm is predominant in the male gender, where it is characterized also by a worst prognosis than in females. The pathogenesis of HCC is obscure. Because of its striking male predominance, androgens have been investigated as potential factors a...

OBJECTIVES To update and assess mortality from neoplasms to 31 December 1995 among 10 109 men employed in a job exposed to vinyl chloride for at least 1 year between 1942 and 1972 at any of 37 North American factories. Previous analyses indicated associations between employment in vinyl production and increased mortality risk from cancers of the liver and biliary tract, due to increased mortali...

Multiple malignancies may occur in the same patient, and a few reports describe cases with multiple hematologic and non-hematologic neoplasms. We report the case of a patient who showed the sequential occurrence of four different lymphoid neoplasms together with a squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. A 62-year-old man with adenopathy was admitted to the hospital, and lymph node biopsy was posit...

BACKGROUND Cystic lesions of the pancreas resembling intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) have been reported to develop in an increased rate following liver transplantation and immunosuppression. The cause for this possible association is thus far elusive. PRESENTATION OF THE CASE We report on a 60-year-old male patient who developed an extensive multicystic change of the entire pa...

HEADINGS Aged. Hepatectomy. Postoperative complications. Morbidity. Mortality. ABSTRACT Introduction Life expectancy of the population has increased in recent years as a result of human development, leading to an increase in the incidence of primary and secondary neoplasms of the liver. Medicine has been following this process, but there is still fear of aggressive surgical treatment in elderly...

SUMMARY The simultaneous p.o. administration of ethylnitrosourea precursors ethylurea and sodium nitrite (NaNO2) to adult hamsters at daily dosages of 100 and 50 mg/kg for a total of 40 dosages during the first 6 weeks of the experiment resulted in the induction of multiple types of neoplasms. Eighty-five % of the treated animals developed an average of over three tumors per tumor-bearing anima...

Background & objective:Primary pleural neoplasms are rare entities compared with the pleural involvement by metastatic carcinoma. The current study aimed at investigating the complete spectrum of pleural neoplasms and differentiating between them with the aid of immunohistochemistry (IHC). Methods: Consecutive pleu...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary liver cancer. It mainly occurs in patients with chronic diseases such as cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B or C infections, well alcoholics. HCC one highly malignant neoplasms. Extrahepatic metastases are seen 64% HCC, but to brain and skull extremely rare. Here, case a 45-year-old male who presented left III, IV, VI, IX, X, XII cr...