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Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
Metastases
Metastasis
Metastasis, or metastatic disease (sometimes abbreviated mets), is the spread of a disease from one organ or part to another non-adjacent organ or part. It was previously thought that only malignant tumor cells and infections have the capacity to metastasize; however, this is being reconsidered due to new research. The word metastasis means "displacement" in Greek, from μετά, meta, "next", and στάσις, stasis, "placement". The plural is metastases. Cancer occurs after a single cell in a tissue is progressively genetically damaged to produce a cancer stem cell possessing a malignant phenotype...
Metastases - List of case studies
- List of Diseases and Conditions
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arthritis Active Ischemia Active brain metastases Active denervation Active enhancing focus Acute EBV ... marrow damage Bone marrow diseases Bone marrow metastases Bradycardia Brain aneurysms Brain hamartomas ...
- Recurrent metastases in malignant tumor of left forearm
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and chemotherapy but subsequently developed pulmonary metastases. The treating doctors recommended a second line chemo approach. ... but also subsequently developed presumptive pulmonary metastases. A patient with recurrent, refractory and ...
- Well differentiated mixed acinar and bronchoalveolar adenocarcinoma of the lung
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right lobe and lower left lobe. These could be true tiny metastases consistent with the clinical behaviour characteristic to ... patient should be re-evaluated by CAT scans . I hope no metastases will be eventually proven. However, in case of disease activity ...
- Metastatic well differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma in liver_2
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EUS – Endoscopy of upper gastric system - 2 metastases in left lobe of liver (and not one as was seen before) ...
- Neuroroendocrine neoplasia with hepatic secondary lesions_2
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to have a neuroendocrine tumour with synchronic liver metastases. The disease was treated with an etoposide-carboplatin combination, ... Diagnosis : Neuroendocrine neoplasia with hepatic metastases. The present expert's opinion was ...
- Multirelapse Squamed Carcinoma of the Skin
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Eligible pts must have HN cSCC >2cm, regional nodal metastases, peri-neural invasion, or deep invasion and must be candidates for ... squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck, regional nodal metastases, peri-neural invasion, deep invasion. Examinations : ...
- Small Cell Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Cervix – additional opinion
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has been reported. The patient presented with lymph node metastases. (4) Another case series reported on 5 patients with large-cell ... with advanced-stage cervical carcinoma, with evidence of metastases in 2 of them. Treatment responses and long-term survival was poor as ...
- Portosystemic Encephalopathy in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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invasion , and no regional nodal or distant metastases . These criteria are based on prognostic factors on which patients ... portal hypertension, vascular invasion, nodal metastases, distant metastases, sodiuria, ascitic fluid ...
- Operated breast cancer with metastases
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hepatic, right suprarenal gland lymph nodes, and bone (L4) metastases. The patient underwent neurosurgery of cerebral metastasis ... bed was performed. Histological examination of cerebral metastases was consistent with her known breast cancer. However, this ...
- Melanoma with metastases
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Any further alternative treatments to prevent metastases and/or relapses of the disease? Therapy recommended ... years old Diagnosis : lymph node metastases of right groin from melanoma in the epigastric region. ...