Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma (BSCC) of the esophagus is a relatively rare variant of esophageal malignancies. It is regarded as a disease with a poor prognosis because of the high frequency of distant metastases. We managed a case of resected solitary pulmonary metastasis of BSCC of the esophagus in a 78-year-old female. We performed curative thoracic esophagectomy with three-field lymph no...

Distant metastases, rather than the primary tumors from which these lesions arise, are responsible for >90% of carcinoma-associated mortality. Many patients already harbor disseminated tumor cells in their bloodstream, bone marrow, and distant organs when they initially present with cancer. Hence, truly effective anti-metastatic therapeutics must impair the proliferation and survival of already...

Fourteen patients with known primary colorectal adenocarcinoma underwent pulmonary resection for its pulmonary metasoasis. The cumurative survival rate at five years was 25.7% in all patients and 37.5% in 9 patients with a solitary metastasis. One of two patients with both pulmonary and hepatic metastases survived 33 months with no evidence of recurrence after pulmonary and hepatic resection. A...

A pulmonary resection of metastatic colorectal carcinoma is an accepted method of treatment. The purpose of this study was to confirm the role of resections for pulmonary metastases from colorectal carcinoma, and to determine the clinical course, outcome, and prognostic factors after surgery. A retrospective analysis was conducted of the records of all patients with pulmonary metastases from co...

To elucidate the role of tumor vascularization on the localization of adoptively transferred, interleukin 2-activated natural killer (A-NK) cells, pulmonary B16 melanoma metastases were analyzed with respect to location, morphological appearance, origin and density of microvessels, and infiltration by A-NK cells. The B16 melanoma metastases could be divided into four subtypes according to their...

Miliary mottling on chest radiography is seen in miliary tuberculosis, certain fungal infections, sarcoidosis, coal miner’s pneumoconiosis, silicosis, hemosiderosis, fibrosing alveolitis, acute extrinsic allergic alveolitis, pulmonary eosinophilic syndrome, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, and rarely in hematogenous metastases from the primary cancers of the thyroid, kidney, trophoblasts, and so...