Abstract Erythroderma as the first manifestation of a solid organ malignancy is rare. The underlying cancer is a challenging condition to diagnose. There are a few cases of erythroderma in cancer patients reported in the literature. We here describe the case of a 70-year-old man who presented with asthen...
ABSTRACT Oral squamous papilloma is a benign tumor whose pathogenesis has been associated with human papillomavirus infection. Thus, it is noteworthy that human papillomavirus infection is one of the risk factors associated with the development of cervical, anogenital, pharynx, larynx and oral cavity car...
El Pilomatrixoma es un tumor anexial benigno. Presenta una variante histopatológica infrecuente denominada pilomatrixoma proliferante reportada en 1997 por Kaddu et al. Corresponde a una lesión compuesta predominantemente por una proliferación lobular de células basaloides, con atipia nuclear variabl...
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the eighth most prevalent cancer worldwide. In recent large-scale studies, by immunohistochemistry and cluster analysis, several markers were associated with patient survival in various tumors. The aim of this study was to analyze the expression profiles of 23 prote...
ABSTRACT Introduction: the goal of this study is to determine the survival rate of patients white oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) who were treated for the first time in 9 cancer centers over a period of 12 years. Methods: analysis of survival rate based on a retrospective sample of 630 cases of o...
De las entidades malignas dermatológicas los carcinomas baso y espinocelulares constituyen causas frecuentes de derivación a Cirugía Plástica dada su resolución fundamentalmente quirúrgica. Actualmente se observa un franco aumento de estas patologías a predominio de los carcinomas basocelulares, s...
Prospective clinical studies in Brasil and Japan have shown that 5-14% of patients suffering from head and neck cancer (HNC) also develop esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESCC). Similarly, the risk for ESCC may be as high as 3.3% to 8.2% in persons with (previous) heavy alcohol and tobacco consumption. D...
El cáncer pulmonar constituye la primera causa de muerte por cáncer en el mundo y la cuarta causa de muerte por cáncer en Chile. El carcinoma escamoso de pulmón representa entre 35 por ciento a 50 por ciento de los casos de cáncer pulmonar. Existe fuerte evidencia, aunque aun controversial, respecto...
