Background:: Pulmonary cystic nodules are a relatively frequent finding in chest computed tomography (CT). There is a possible association between this finding and lung cancer. Aim: To report eight patients with malignant lung cystic lesions. Material and Methods: Retrospective analysis of images in a ...
ABSTRACT CONTEXT: Obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract due to metastatic disease is rare. Clinical recognition of cardiac metastatic tumors is rare and continues to present a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. CASE REPORT: We present the case of a patient who had severe respiratory ins...
Background: Pancreatic cancer is the tenth most prevalent cancer in world, and represents the fourth cause of cancer death. It has a five year-survival of 5%. Aim: To assess the prognostic value of PET/CT in pancreatic cancer. Material and Methods: Sixty-nine patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma who...
ABSTRACT The biochemical recurrence after local treatment for prostate cancer is an often challenging condition of clinical management. The aim of this report is to demonstrate the importance of the association of various imaging methods in the identification and subsequent accurate percutaneous biopsy i...
Background Imaging with F18-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT is used to determine sites of abnormal glucose metabolism and can be used to characterize and localize many types of tumors. Aim To assess the prevalence of multiple primary malignant neoplasms (MPMN) detected by PET/CT in cancer patients. Material ...
El síndrome de Villaret se define por la afección de los nervios craneales glosofaríngeo (IX), vago (X), espinal (XI) e hipogloso mayor (XII), en conjunción con el síndrome de Horner homolateral a la lesión. Se produce por compresión de estos nervios y de las fibras vecinas del plexo simpático pe...
RESUMEN Objetivo: Evaluar las características endoscópicas y patológicas del cáncer gástrico del Hospital Nacional Luis N. Sáenz entre 2008 y 2013. Materiales y métodos: Estudio observacional retrospectivo transversal. Se revisó los informes endoscópicos, de pacientes mayores a 30 años, se ingr...
