Malignancies of the breast, prostate, lung, and kidney have a propensity to metastasize to bony structures, but any invasive cancer capable of hematogenous spread can produce SCC. Cancers that ...

Systemic deposition of silicone in the form of foreign-body granulomas, also known as siliconomas, is a rare complication of breast implant rupture, which is thought to result from silicone lymphatic ...

Mechanisms of the spread of Krukenberg tumor proposed are retrograde lymphatic dissemination involved in gastric cancer metastases, hematogenous spread most frequent in colorectal cancer, and ...

Introduction: A potential association between periodontitis and endometriosis has been indicated in previous observational studies. Nevertheless, the causal link between these two disorders has not ...

Despite advances in the diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, the prognosis of several solid tumor malignancies remains poor. Different factors associated with solid tumors including a varied genetic ...

cantonensis, ingested larvae migrated to the CNS by hematogenous spread, and some appeared in the brain within 4 hours after ingestion. In less than 2 weeks, larvae appeared in the subarachnoid ...

The patient’s fever and diffuse macular rash are consistent with secondary syphilis, and his arthritis most likely reflects hematogenous spread. Elevated levels of inflammatory markers are ...

TORCH infections are unique in their pathogenesis and have potentially devastating clinical manifestations. Congenital toxoplasmosis remains an important cause of blindness, although avoiding ...

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan Dr Y-C Wu, Division of Thoracic Surgery, ...