borderline, and malignant Brenner tumors. In addition, we touch on a wide range of other rare ovarian neoplasms that every pathologist should be familiar with. This chapter emphasizes the differential diagnosis of these entities and keys to case workup and diagnosis. Thorough review of the morpholo...
MRI has enabled advances in tumor localization and characterization, decreasing the time from the onset of symptoms to diagnosis from 24–36 months to 14 months [53,60] On MRI, spinal ependymomas appear hypointense or isointense on T1 and hyperintense on T2 [57]. Tumoral and polar...
The liver is the most common site (65%) followed by the peritoneum (21%) whereas lymph nodes, bone and lung metastases are rare [7]. Surgical resection is the “gold standard” for therapy of GIST. The primary goal of surgery is complete resection of the disease [9]. However, locally...
in Solid Tumours (RECIST), version 1.1; unsuitable for surgery; age 18 years or older; Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 2 or less; adequate bone marrow, liver, kidney, and neurologic function; adequate coagulation parameters; and a life expectancy of 4 months or longer....
MRI is able to demonstrate findings in carcinoid tumors, including the primary tumor, mesenteric metastases, and liver metastases. Liver metastases are commonly hypervascular and may be demonstrable only on immediate postgadolinium images. How fast do neuroendocrine tumors grow?
2 Because patients with incurable NSCLC have a limited life expectancy, mitigating the QOL detriment from any palliative treatments is paramount. We therefore conducted this phase 3 randomized clinical trial to measure the effect of ES-IMRT on treatment-related esophageal toxic effects in incurable ...
smaller than 20 mm in diameter, did not show any apparent growth over a long monitoring period without metas- tasizing to regional lymph nodes or the liver.43 Carcinoid tumors Thymic, bronchial, and type II gastric enterochromaffin-like carcinoids occur approximately in 10% of individuals with ...
This approach is justified by citing the relatively indolent clinical course of many patients with stage IV islet cell cancers and is predicated on the efficacy of many liver directed treatments including ablative modalities and intra-arterial chemoembolization. Oth- ers, however, state that overall ...
[109]. Females are less susceptible to hepatocellular carcinoma—the most common cancer of the liver—which is often caused by chronic inflammation due to hepatitis viral infection. Colorectal cancer is also more common in men than women, and the difference is more striking among premenopausal ...
Liver metastases of neuroendocrine tumors are usually slow-growing, and cytoreductive hepatectomy can help reduce the effects of endocrinopathies and increase life expectancy and symptom-free survival. However, it has yet to be fully investigated how hepatectomy for metastatic neuroendocrine tumors can ...