Femoral muscle metastasis from gastric carcinoma Gogou, Pinelopi V; Polydorou, Andreas; Papacharalampous, Xenophon N ...
The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology,
10/2012, Volume:
23, Issue:
5
Journal Article
Intraspinal extradural primitive neuroectodermal tumours (PNET) represent a rare entity that almost always carry a poor prognosis. A recent literature research revealed only four cases reported in ...adults. The tumours have mainly thoracic and lumbar location. We report the only case with cervical location and with the longest survival. Urgent laminectomy was performed resulting in a rapid pain relief for the patient. The patient was followed up with craniospinal irradiation and several cycles of chemotherapy. The patient died due to dissemination of the disease 31 months after the diagnosis. Intraspinal PNET tumours have a rapidly progressive course, and there is no current consensus on the optimal therapeutic approach.
The clinical course of a 33‐year‐old man with generalized lymphadenopathy bearing all physical, laboratory and histologic characteristics of “angio‐immunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia” ...(AILD) is described. Therapy was without significant benefit and the patient died 22 months after initial diagnosis. At autopsy in addition to the characteristic cellular polymorphism of AILD, numerous Hodgkin's cells and Sternberg‐Reed cells were identified in the lymph nodes and spleen. Pleomorphic cellular infiltrates containing an increased number of immunoblasts and some giant cells were found also in the portal spaces of the liver. The evolution of Hodgkin's disease (H.D.) from AILD suggests that the latter may have represented a reaction to the agent which causes H.D.
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