hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) is the most common, malignant tumor of the liver. hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) commonly metastasizes to the lungs, abdominal lymph nodes, adrenal glands, or bones. distant lymph node metastases are rare in hepatocellular carcinoma. a 49-year-old male patient presented with right sided neck mass. on examination there was right cervical lymphadenopathy and hepatom...

in medicine, patent blue violet (pbv) is utilized for staining lymphatic vessels in sentinel lymph node (sln) surgery. moreover, pbv (also called e131 ) is used as food additive. we report on a 51-year-old non-atopic female with early breast cancer, who was scheduled for sln excision and experienced an intra-operative anaphylactic reaction. in diagnostics the skin prick test (spt) was positive ...

abstract   background: the iranian breast cancer patients are relatively younger than their western counterparts. evidence suggests that alterations in estrogen signaling pathways , including estrogen receptor-α (er- α ), occur during breast cancer development in caucasians. epidemiologic studies have revealed that age-incidence patterns of breast cancer in asians differ from those in caucasian...

original article   evaluation of lymphadenopathy is of clinical significance as the underlying disease may range from a treatable infectious etiology to malignant neoplasm. the aim and objective of the present study was to evaluate palpable lymph nodes of population working in small to medium scale industries represented as group a by fine needle aspiration cytology (fnac) and to compare the re...

detection of bovine leukemia virus antigens can induces humoral immunity in cow were evaluated. fifteen lymph node from infected cows that had positive results in agid and elisa tests for blv and have clinical signs of lymphosarcoma, in addition five lymph node from apparently healthy cows that had negative results in serological tests. after preparation of extract of lymph nodes, all of the sa...

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background & objectives: colon cancer is currently of high incidence and mortality rate. identifying the factors influencing its prognosis can be very beneficial to its clinical treatment. recent studies have shown that lymph nodes ratio can be considered as an important prognostic factor. the aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of this factor on the prognosis of the patie...