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Clavicle is an unusual site for any primary bone tumour, including osteogenic sarcoma. Although a rare site of affection, most clavicular tumours tend to be malignant. We present a case report of osteosarcoma of the clavicle in a twelve-year-old male child who presented with a huge swelling of the left clavicle for the last six months.
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Child , Clavicle/pathology , Fatal Outcome , Humans , Male , Neoplasm Metastasis/complications , Neoplasm Metastasis/mortality , Osteosarcoma/complications , Osteosarcoma/drug therapy , Osteosarcoma/mortalityABSTRACT
We report a case on sudden death brought to the Department of Forensic Medicine, Gauhati medical college, Assam. Death was due to syncope as a result of cardiac tamponade due to pericardial effusion following metastasis from carcinoma of breast. Death from cardiac tamponade following carcinoma breast is not a usual finding on the autopsy table. These sudden deaths make forensic pathologists aware of the course of natural diseases. Cardiovascular diseases accounts for vast majority of cases and certain neoplasm may also present as sudden death. Malignancy of breast is one of the commonest malignancies in females and often it presents late with metastasis to the underlying organs. The importance of autopsy lies here in the fact that it alleviates the doubts in the minds of the relatives of the deceased and relieves the law of the burden of un-necessary investigations. Moreover, role of pathology in Forensic Medicine in such cases is inevitable in establishing the cause of death.
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Adult , Autopsy , Breast Neoplasms/complications , Breast Neoplasms/mortality , Cardiac Tamponade/etiology , Cardiac Tamponade/mortality , Death, Sudden/etiology , Female , Forensic Pathology , Humans , India , Neoplasm Metastasis/complications , Neoplasm Metastasis/etiology , Neoplasm Metastasis/mortalityABSTRACT
This article attempts to describe a rare case of bladder carcinoma with skin metastasis. This case is interesting, particularly because it is related to the bladder. From a statistical point of view, metastatic carcinoma of the bladder is very rare. In this paper the clinical and histologic findings of a rare cutaneous metastasis from carcinoma of the bladder will be discussed
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Humans , Male , Urinary Bladder Neoplasms/pathology , Neoplasm Metastasis/mortality , Histological Techniques/methodsSubject(s)
Humans , Female , Breast Neoplasms/pathology , Neoplasm Metastasis/pathology , Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/pathology , Prognosis , Time Factors , Bone Neoplasms/secondary , Breast Neoplasms/mortality , Breast Neoplasms/therapy , Survival Rate , Actuarial Analysis , Follow-Up Studies , Combined Modality Therapy , Neoplasm Metastasis/mortality , Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/mortality , Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/therapyABSTRACT
La presencia de una metástasis cerebral está asociada a pobre pronóstico y a sobrevida corta. Presentamos un caso de metástasis cerebral de larga duración con episodios repetitivos de cráneo hipertensivo, que mantuvo durante 16 meses la misma imagen tomográfica de crecimiento posterior rápido y múltiple. Este comportamiento poco usual podría estar condicionado a la presencia de receptores hormonales en relación a la estrogenoterapia y/o a la expresión de un mayor grado de diferenciación celular hacia GI (bien diferenciado) de lesión metastásica; asimismo, dicho tratamiento podría explicar el cuadro clínico neurológico. Se discuten estos probables mecanismos
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Humans , Male , Cerebrum/physiopathology , Neoplasm Metastasis/mortality , Neoplasm Metastasis/physiopathology , Prostatic Neoplasms/diagnosis , Prostatic Neoplasms/drug therapy , Prostatic Neoplasms/physiopathology , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Diplopia/diagnosis , Neurologic Examination/methodsABSTRACT
Se presenta el caso de un paciente del sexo masculino de 2 años de edad, que cursó con retinoblastoma bilateral. El O.D. fue enucleado con persistencia de actividad neoplásica en el borde de sección quirúrgica, lo que propició carcinamatosis meníngea, diseminación al sistema ventricular, invasión al diencéfalo, corteza cerebral y cerebelosa. Se presentan los hallazgos de autopsia y la correlación clínico*patológica