Pancreatic cancer carries one of the worst prognoses in United States. It is fourth leading cause cancer-related death States and second after colorectal digestive system death. Early detection key to improving its prognosis. Surgical resection only curative treatment, but even margin-negative resection, 5-year survival rate still 30%. The following case presents a fascinating diagnosis pancrea...

appendix is by Berger in 1882. It is most commonly classified into colonic-type adenocarcinoma and mucinous-type adenocarcinoma, which is differentiated by the production of mucin. For a perforated mucinous adenocarcinoma, intraperitoneal gelatinous material is termed “pseudomyxoma peritonei” because the material is not composed of true mucin. Primary adenocarcinoma of the appendix is a rare di...

A 65-year-old man was hospitalized due to an abdominal tumor. Several imaging studies showed multilocular tumors in the right hepatic lobe and in the pancreatic head, 4 and 7 cm in size, respectively. The hepatic tumor rapidly grew to 9 cm in 4 weeks, associated with a rapid increase in the serum carcinoembryonic antigen level from 125 ng/ml to 1,000 ng/ml. The pathologic diagnosis of the resec...

Mucinous gastric carcinoma (MGC) is a rare histological subtype of gastric cancer. The clinicopathological characteristics and CT features of MGC remain controversial. This study aimed to determine the clinicopathological characteristics and CT features of MGC. We reviewed 62 patients with MGC and 104 patients with non-mucinous gastric carcinoma (NMGC), pathologically confirmed between 2003 and...

Primary adenocarcinoma of the female urethra is rare and only a few retrospective cases have been published. The origin of urethral adenocarcinomas remains unclear. Certain authors have suggested that urethral adenocarcinomas in females originate at the periurethral Skene's glands. We report one case of urethral adenocarcinoma of the proximal urethra in a 44-year-old female who presented with p...

Tumor associated antigen present in the cyst fluid of a patient with papillary mucinous cytadenocarcinoma of the ovary was prepared by ammonium sulfate precipitation. The dialyzed precipitate was emulsified in complete Freund's adjuvant and injected into rabbits followed by booster doses of the antigen in saline. The resulting antiserum was absorbed with normal human serum and normal liver and ...

CONTEXT Sister Mary Joseph's nodule usually represents metastatic cancers from gastrointestinal malignancy including adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma is a rare malignancy of the pancreas. However, pancreatic mucinous cystadenocarcinoma metastasized to Sister Mary Joseph's nodule is much rarer and has never been reported before. CASE REPORT A 73-year-old Thai woman p...

Background: Urethral adenocarcinoma is a very uncommon problem in women, with prevalence of 0.02%. Due to the disease's rarity, there little information available about it. Treatment for cancer can have significant negative influence on patient's condition. Mucinous adenocarcinomas are type that poorly studied. These cancers almost invariably worse outcome compared c...