Maria Kourti,Emmanouel Hatzipantelis,Thomas Zaramboukas et al.
Maria Kourti et al.
We report our institutional experience of the management of 2 cases of rare non-Wilms' tumors; a rhabdoid tumor in a 17-month old boy and a clear cell sarcoma in a 5-year old girl. The two patients were treated with ifosfamide/carboplatin/e...
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Rare tumors. 2012 Jan 2;4(1):e6. DOI:10.4081/rt.2012.e6 2012
Chun-Chao Huang,She-Meng Cheng
Chun-Chao Huang
Parachordoma is an extremely rare entity and there are only about 50 to 60 cases reported, in which there is only one definite pelvic parachordoma. We present a huge well-defined presacral tumor in a 48-year-old woman who has the symptoms o...
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Rare tumors. 2012 Jan 2;4(1):e5. DOI:10.4081/rt.2012.e5 2012
Altamiro Ribeiro Dias Jr,Marcela Cavalcante de Andrade Silva,Filomena Marino Carvalho et al.
Altamiro Ribeiro Dias Jr et al.
Fanconi Anemia (FA) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by chromosome instability, cellular hypersensitivity to DNA cross-linking agents, and increased predisposition to malignancies. We describe here a 28 year-old female with F...
Jason M Hoover,Jonathan M Bledsoe,Caterina Giannini et al.
Jason M Hoover et al.
We present a case of an intramedullary melanotic schwannoma (IMS) of the thoracic spinal cord. To our knowledge, this is the seventh reported case of an IMS of the central nervous system. Schwannomas are benign nerve sheath tumors of neural...
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Rare tumors. 2012 Jan 2;4(1):e3. DOI:10.4081/rt.2012.e3 2012
Primary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue thyroid lymphoma: a rare thyroid neoplasm of extrathyroid origin [0.03%]
原发性黏膜相关淋巴组织甲状腺淋巴瘤：一种罕见的非甲状腺起源甲状腺肿瘤
Melpomeni Peppa,Panagiotis Nikolopoulos,Penelope Korkolopoulou et al.
Melpomeni Peppa et al.
Primary thyroid lymphoma is a rare malignancy, representing 2-8% of all thyroid malignancies and 1-2% of all extranodal lymphomas. The majority of cases concern non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of B cell origin, following by Hodgkin's disease, T cell...
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Rare tumors. 2012 Jan 2;4(1):e2. DOI:10.4081/rt.2012.e2 2012
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging to detect synchronous uterine endometrial and endocervical adenocarcinoma [0.03%]
弥散加权磁共振成像检测子宫内膜和宫颈管腺癌同步发生的价值
Jesus Paul Carvalho,Publio Viana,Cristina Anton et al.
Jesus Paul Carvalho et al.
Synchronous endometrial and cervical cancer is a very rare condition. This report describes a case of a 46-year-old woman who presented with a cervical mass that measured 5.6 cm along its longest diameter, whose biopsy analysis revealed an ...
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Rare tumors. 2012 Jan 2;4(1):e19. DOI:10.4081/rt.2012.e19 2012
Benyam Yoseph,Ming Chi,Alexander M Truskinovsky et al.
Benyam Yoseph et al.
Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) of the uterine cervix is a rare and aggressive malignancy with poor prognosis even in its early stage, despite multimodality treatment strategy. Here, we report a case of a woman with clinical pol...
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Rare tumors. 2012 Jan 2;4(1):e18. DOI:10.4081/rt.2012.e18 2012
Brain metastasis from urachal carcinoma: the importance of locally aggressive treatment [0.03%]
侵袭膀胱脐尿管癌的脑转移：局部根治性治疗的重要性
Daniel Taussky,Pierre I Karakiewicz,Mathieu Latour et al.
Daniel Taussky et al.
We present the case of a 52 years old woman who developed multiple brain metastasis after cystectomy with anterior exenteration and chemotherapy. She received whole-brain radiotherapy with 20 gray in 5 sessions. On magnetic resonance imagin...
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Rare tumors. 2012 Jan 2;4(1):e17. DOI:10.4081/rt.2012.e17 2012
Albert Su,Sophia K Apple,Neda A Moatamed
Albert Su
Pleomorphic adenoma, also known as mixed tumor, is a benign tumor which typically presents as a painless and persistent mass. The majority of pleomorphic adenomas involve the salivary glands, most commonly the parotid gland. Other sites inc...
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Rare tumors. 2012 Jan 2;4(1):e16. DOI:10.4081/rt.2012.e16 2012
Renal primitive neuroectodermal tumor: does age at diagnosis impact outcomes? [0.03%]
肾原发性神经外胚层肿瘤：诊断年龄会影响预后吗？
Mahdi Aghili,Elham Rafiei,Mohamad Mojahed et al.
Mahdi Aghili et al.
Primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) of the kidney is a rare and highly malignant neoplasm. The median age for renal PNET is 27 years but it can be seen also in a wide age range between 3 and 78 years. We performed a Medline search for th...
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Rare tumors. 2012 Jan 2;4(1):e15. DOI:10.4081/rt.2012.e15 2012