Emulsified cell walls of Mycobacterium bovis (BCG) were immunotherapeutically at least as active as living BCG in prolonging survival of guinea pigs with established dermal tumors and microscopic lymph node and visceral metastases.

Purpose: Adipose tissue contains a population of tumor-tropic mesenchymal progenitors, termed adipose stromal cells (ASC), which engraft in neighboring tumors to form supportive tumor stroma.We hypothesized that intra-abdominal visceral adipose tissue may contain a uniquely tumor-promoting population of ASC to account for the relationship between excess visceral adipose tissue and mortality of ...

PURPOSE Adipose tissue contains a population of tumor-tropic mesenchymal progenitors, termed adipose stromal cells (ASC), which engraft in neighboring tumors to form supportive tumor stroma. We hypothesized that intra-abdominal visceral adipose tissue may contain a uniquely tumor-promoting population of ASC to account for the relationship between excess visceral adipose tissue and mortality of ...

Electroporation is a technique that increases the uptake of chemotherapeutic drugs by tumors. Electrochemotherapy (ECT) has been successfully used to treat solid tumors. Recently, novel applications have been explored in the treatment of visceral tumors. This report aimed to describe the ECT as an approach to vesical carcinoma in three dogs. The patients received ECT with bleomycin as an intrav...

neurofibromatosis type 1, also known as von recklinghausen disease, is an autosomal dominant disorder with an incidence of 1 per 4000. neurofibromas are benign, heterogeneous tumors arising from the connective tissue of peripheral nerve sheaths, especially the endoneurium. visceral involvement in disseminated neurofibromatosis is rare. neurofibroma occurs most frequently in the stomach and jeju...

Despite evidence of increased endometrial cancer (EC) risk in obese women, the impact of obesity on clinical and histological phenotype is poorly understood. This study explored abdominal fat volumes and fat distribution quantified by computed tomography (CT), in relation to tumor characteristics and outcome. 227 EC patients with preoperative abdominal CT scans were included. Total abdominal fa...

BACKGROUND/AIM Von Recklinghausen disease is a syndrome characterized by a wide phenotypic variability giving rise to both, cutaneous and visceral benign and malignant neoplasms. The first include cutaneous neurofibromas, subcutaneous and plexiform neurofibromas. The latter can undergo malignant transformation and/or determine elephantiasis neuromatosa. Visceral tumors may include malignant per...

Hypoglycemia has multiple causes, but the most common is a complication of insulin treatment. In addition to therapy, tumors such as insulinomas pancreatic origin and extrapancreatic causing paraneoplastic syndromes should also be considered. Solitary fibrous pleura (SFTP) rare tumor, which when associated with hypoglycemia causes Doege-Potter syndrome. This article reports case 69-year-old man...

BACKGROUND Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) can be categorized into uterine, retroperitoneal, nonretroperitoneal soft tissue, cutaneous, visceral, and osseous anatomic subtypes. The differential expression of smooth muscle markers, estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and Wilms tumor-1 protein (WT1) by anatomic subtype and gender was explored. METHODS A total of 78 LMS comprised of 30 uter...

size-based criteria (visceral pleural invasion, hilar atelectasis, and obstructive pneumonitis), Jones et al (reference 16 in our article2) have clearly indicated that hilar atelectasis and obstructive pneumonitis rarely are the only criteria for staging non-small cell lung cancer as stage 1B. Hung et al raised the possibility that our finding that T2P tumors 3 cm in size is a poor independent ...