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Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
Metastatic tumor in the liver
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...
Metastatic tumor in the liver - List of case studies
- Metastatic well differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma in liver
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78-year-old male was diagnosed with Metastatic well differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma in liver. There is an undefined finding in the cecum that might be the primary tumor, and hepatic metastases that can be surgically respected. The imaging ...
- Small Cell Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Cervix
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Cervix Tumor short_summary: ... left side of the body. Moreover, evidence is seen of nodal metastatic spread in the retroperitoneum and pelvis. In the expert's opinion ...
- Metastatic colon cancer after 8 years of continous chemotherapy treatment
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Metastatic colon cancer short_summary: ... During the surgical procedure, a catheter was implanted in the hepatic artery. Following surgery, she received systemic chemotherapy ... is to determine tolerance of the drug as well as potential tumor subtypes that may benefit. One could look on ...
- Neuroendocrine Neoplasia
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60-year-old male was diagnosed with a symptomatic metastatic well differentiated rectal neuroendocrine tumor, with multiple liver metastases. This tumor is over-expressing somastatin ...
- Stage 4 Neuroblastoma
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nervous system tumor short_summary: ... to fever and vomiting in left orbital lesion, suspecting a metastatic neuroblastoma. His eye examination revealed exophthalmus of the eye ...
- Small Cell Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Cervix – additional opinion
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Cervix Tumor short_summary: ... left side of the body. Moreover, evidence is seen of nodal metastatic spread in the retroperitoneum and pelvis, mainly on the left. ...
- Metastatic well differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma in liver_2
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78-year-old male was diagnosed with metastatic well differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma with unknown primary. ... normal health, an abdominal US was done and a metastatic tumor was found in the liver , left lobe. On liver FNB : ...
- Stage 4 Neuroblastoma – additional opinion
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nervous system tumor short_summary: ... to fever and vomiting in left orbital lesion, suspecting a metastatic neuroblastoma. His eye examination revealed exophthalmus of the eye ...
- Operated breast cancer with metastases
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Metastatic breast cancer ... cancer. However, this examination also revealed that her tumor was c-erbB2 positive, and that the Ki-67 was equal to 25%. Since ... for Her-2/neu (Dako polyclonal antiserum) in 50% of the neoplastic cells. The proliferative fraction (Ki-67) is ...