Background: Metastasis occurs in a significant percentage of patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) . Up to 85% of these cancers are clear-cell RCC . Determination of metastases is important to the management of disease, and the imaging techniques play an important role in assessing the metastatic lesions. Whole-body diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) which is able to highlight the oncological ...

Gallbladder cancer is a highly fatal disease with poor prognosis; indeed, a high proportion of tumours are diagnosed at an advanced stage. Metastases are commonly detected in regional lymph nodes, liver and peritoneum, but unusual sites of spread such as thyroid and breast have also been described in the literature.We report a case of unsuspected muscle metastases, associated to pulmonary metas...

Calcified renal metastases from osteosarcoma are extremely rare. We present a case of a young female with osteosarcoma of the right ulna who developed late recurrence in the form of large metastatic calcified renal and pulmonary lesions. Review of the literature suggests that osteosarcoma metastases of the kidneys usually exhibit aggressive behaviour with poor prognosis. A brief review of the c...

Choriocarcinoma is a highly malignant neoplasm arising from the trophoblast of a human pregnancy, which may have distant spread to multiple organs, particularly to the lung. We report a case of a pulmonary arteriovenous fistula that developed after chemotherapy within a choriocarcinoma metastasis. A 24-year-old female with a history of uterine choriocarcinoma presented with multiple hypervascul...

Pulmonary vein thrombosis has been described in several patients including those with malignancy, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease, fibrosing mediastinitis, and after lung transplantation. 1-5 Although liposarcoma frequently metastasizes to the lungs, to our knowledge pulmonary venous (tumor) thrombosis with lung infarction has not been previously mentioned as part of this disease. We report a ...

A giant cell tumour is a primary lesion of bone of intermediate severity. Its histogenesis is unclear. In a few cases pulmonary metastases have been described. Multiple skeletal metastases in the absence of sarcomatous change have been observed. We present a case report of a 25-year-old woman with a recurrent giant cell tumour of the distal fibula. After a second recurrence and six years after ...

INTRODUCTION The lung is the most common extraabdominal site for metastases from colorectal cancer. Patients with untreated metastatic disease have a median survival of less than 10 months and a 5-year survival of less than 5%. The purpose of this study was to evaluate long-term survival in patients who underwent pulmonary resection for metastases from colorectal cancer. METHODS Between Janua...

PURPOSE Surgical resection of isolated hepatic or pulmonary metastases of colorectal cancer is an established procedure, with a 5-year survival rate of about 50%. However, the role of surgical resections in patients with both hepatic and pulmonary metastases is not well established. We aimed to analyze overall survival of these patients and associated factors. METHODS Data retrospectively col...

The antimetastatic activity of Nocardia rubra cell wall skeleton (N-CWS) with or without cyclophosphamide was examined in an experimental model of pulmonary metastasis induced by Lewis lung carcinoma in C57BL/6 mice. Lewis lung carcinoma cells were implanted into the footpads of mice, and the implanted tumors were removed 9 to 10 days later. Pulmonary metastatic nodules began to develop a few d...

Pulmonary metastases of uterine endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS) are uncommon. The patterns of uterine ESS metastasis to the lung are multiple pulmonary nodules, single nodule, or cystic lesions. Pulmonary intraalveolar micronodular metastases of uterine ESS are unusual and have not been reported. We experienced a case of metastatic uterine ESS presenting as pulmonary diffuse micronodules with...