tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Malignant pleural mesothelioma with long-term tumor disappearance of a local relapse after surgery: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Malignant pleural mesothelioma with long-term tumor disappearance of a local relapse after surgery: a case report | JOURNAL OF MEDICAL Sr CASE REPORTS Case report Malignant pleural mesothelioma with long-term tumor disappearance of a local relapse after surgery a case report Masahiko Higashiyama1 Kazuyuki Oda1 Jiro Okami1 Jun Maeda1 Ken Kodama1 and Fumio Imamura2 Open Access Addresses Department of Thoracic Surgery Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases 1-3-3 Nakamichi Higashinariku Osaka 537-8511 Japan and 2Department of Respiratory Medicine Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases Osaka Japan Email MH - higasiyama-ma@ Corresponding author Published 27 March 2009 Received 30 August 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 6800 doi 1752-1947-3-6800 Accepted 14 December 2008 This article is available from http jmedicalcasereports article view 3 3 6800 2009 Higashiyama et al licensee Cases Network Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction There have been few reports of spontaneous regression of malignant pleural mesothelioma but the mechanism for this is unknown. We present a case report on a patient with malignant pleural mesothelioma showing apparent tumor disappearance in a local relapse after surgery. Case presentation A 73-year-old man presented with malignant pleural mesothelioma in the right thoracic cavity. A pleurectomy was performed and as expected the tumor locally relapsed with increasing chest pain. However the symptoms suddenly improved while the tumor was apparently reduced and spontaneous tumor regression was initially considered. The patient confessed that he had self-administered a mushroom extract with alternative parasympathetic nerve stimulation therapy thereafter. The complete disappearance of the tumor was clinically .