December 2009

A case of breast cancer found as metastasis to the duodenum

A 58-year-old woman underwent left total mastectomy for invasive ductual carcinoma of the breast in 2002. In November 2007, the upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed that an ulcer (~ 0.3 × 0.5 cm) was covered with white fur and surrounded by edematus tissue at the anterior wall of duodenal bulb. The follow-up pathological examination revealed that the morphology of the cells of duodenal cancer was identical to...

Author(s): Xiu-wen Wang, Xiang-jiao Meng, Ting-guo Zhang, Lian Liu, Cui-hua Yi, Dong-yan Hu and Shu-guang Li

December 2009

Silver binding nucleolar organiser regions in oral submucous fibrosis, lichen planus, leukoplakia and squamous cell carcinoma

This study was undertaken to assess the biologic aggressiveness of sub mucous fibrosis, lichen planus, leukoplakia and squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity by determining the mean number of AgNORs and comparing them with those of normal mucosa. The study sample consisted of total 93 subjects. Biopsy specimens of 26 squamous cell carcinomas, 22 sub mucous fibrosis, 15 lichen planus, 15 leukoplakia and 15 healthy...

Author(s): Sunita Kulkarni, R. N. Mody, Sanjeev Jindal, Ravinder Singh Sohiand Bhawandeep Kaur