• 대한골관절종양학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.54-59
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• 1996

Liposarcoma is second in frequency only to malignant fibous histocytoma among the soft tissue sarcoma. Many different factors which might affect the survival rate of liposarcoma have been reported by many authors. The purpose of this study was to evaluate survival rate of liposarcoma and define the prognostic factors that affected survival rate. The authors analysed retrospectively 17 patients of liposarcoma in extremities from May 1984 to Dec. 1995 who had been treated in department of orthopaedic surgery of Kosin University Medical Center. All cases were resected with marginal or wide margin. There were 9 men and 8 women. The mean age was 48 years. The follow-up period ranged from 15 to 96 months. We compared the prognosis of the patients with several factors; age, sex, surgical staging, size, site, histologic type and treatment modality. At last follow-up, the presence of local recurrence was in 3 cases and the presence of lung metastasis was in 8 cases. The survival rates by Kaplan-Meier product limit method at 2 years and 5 years were 87% and 57% respectively. The statististically significant difference was estimated in histologic type, but was not estimated in age, sex surgical staging, size, site and treatment modality. In conclusion, the histologic type is considered as the most important factor of the prognosis in liposarcoma. Although it was too few patients for the differences to be statistically significant, we consider that surgical staging, site, size, the radio-therapy and chemothrapy in liposarcoma will affect the prognosis.

• 대한세포병리학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.52-56
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• 2005

Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has been used extensively in the diagnosis of metastatic malignancies. However, metastatic soft tissue sarcomas are often overlooked, primarily due to the low frequency with/ which they occur. Here, we report a rare case of metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma in both cervical lymph nodes, which was detected by FNAC. A 45-year-old woman presented with anosmia, postnasal drip, and sneezing, symptoms which had persisted for 1 month. The patient was found to have a tumorous lesion at the upper portion of the mid-turbinate, with multiple enlarged cervical lymph nodes, and this lesion was examined closely at our facility. FNA cytology smears obtained from both cervical lymph nodes revealed a high degree of cellularity, and displayed cohesive clusters with gland-like spaces, as well as single isolated cells with abundant karyorrhectic debris. The tumor cells exhibited round to oval nuclei containing fine chromatin, occasional small nucleoli, and scanty cytoplasm, or a total lack of cytoplasm. Some of the tumor cells were arranged in multinucleated forms and abundant dense eosinophilic cytoplasms, reminiscent of a rhabdomyoblast. The histological findings on the lymph nodes revealed an outstanding sinusoidal infiltration and a prominent alveolar growth pattern, interspersed with occasional typical rhabdomyoblasts. The immunohistochemical results [desmin (+), myoglobin (+), myogenin (+), pan CK (-), synaptophysin (-), neuron specific enolase (-)] supported a confirmative diagnosis of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is a representative sarcoma, which typically manifests with nodal metastasis and carcinoma-like clustering. The cytopathologist should remain alert upon encountering unusual morphology, so that the possibility of this condition, although somewhat remote, should not be dismissed or overlooked.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.309-316
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• 1991

Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma of late adult life. This tumor occurs principally as a mass on an extremity or in the abdominal cavity or retroperitoneum of adult but primary pulmonary MFH is rare. MFH may be subclassified into storiform-pleomorphic, myxoid, giant cell, inflammatory, and angiomatoid type and the prognosis is no different among the histologic subtypes. We experienced one patient who was consistent with primary MFH of the lung. The patient complained dyspnea and intermittent hemoptysis and showed bilateral suprahilar mass on simple chest film and chest CT. Histological findings by open lung biopsy was storiform-pleomorphic type and individual cells showed histiocyte-like and fibroblast-like appearance.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.741-746
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• 2020

사지부위에 많이 발생하는 연부조직육종의 방사선치료에 사용하는 쌀을 이용한 볼루스의 적용에서 쌀의 품종에 따른 형태적 차이에 따라 달라지는 방사선량분포의 차이가 발생하는지를 알기 위하여 일반적인 국산 쌀과 낱알의 크기가 작은 태국산 쌀을 각각 적용한 쌀 볼루스의 선량분포 민감도를 비교하였다. 쌀 볼루스를 적용하지 않는 팬텀, 국산 쌀을 사용한 쌀 볼루스를 적용한 팬텀, 태국산 쌀을 사용한 쌀 볼루스를 적용한 팬텀에 동일한 방사선치료계획을 수립하고 동일한 지점 12곳에 대한 선량을 비교하였다. 등중심점에 대하여 100 cGy를 처방하였으며, 낱알의 크기가 작고 긴 태국산 쌀을 이용한 쌀볼루스에서 평균 103.57±1.98 cGy, 국산 쌀 볼루스에서 평균 104.27±2.12 cGy, 볼루스가 없는 팬텀에서 104.99±6.40 cGy의 선량분포를 보였다. Wilcoxon's Signed Rank test에서 태국산 쌀 볼루스와 국산 쌀 볼루스의 선량분포가 유의한 차이를 보였다(p=.011). 낱알의 크기가 작고 긴 태국산 쌀을 이용한 볼루스에서 더 균등한 선량분포를 보임을 확인하였으며 임상에서 이를 고려하면 더 양질의 의료서비스를 제공할 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.598-604
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• 1992

Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in childhood and acounts for 6% to 15% of all cases of childhood cancer, Rhabdomyosarcoma in seventh most common form of childhood neoplasms, following acute leukemia, tumors of the central nervous system, lymphoma neuroblastoma, Wilm`s tumor, bone tumor. Rhabdomyosarcoma can arise anywhere in the body, but primary site in the thorax is relatively rare. We experienced a case of aveolar rhabdomyosarcoma arising from intercostal muscle, A 12 year-old woman was suffered from the intermittent left chest pain radiating to the scapular area and dyspnea, On physical examination, pulmonary friction rub was heard on the left upper lobe area. Qn adimission, the chest simple radiography revealed a 7 x 6, 5cm sized radio-opaque mass with pleural effusion in the superior mediastinum and the CT showed a well difined radio-opaque mass including the destructed 2nd rib and pleural effusion. The percutaneous tra-nsthoracic needle aspiration biopsy was likely to show blastoma. After the chemotherapy[vincristine, actinomycin-D, cyclophosphamde] was done to treat blastoma, the pleural effussion was subsided and the mass was slightly decreased by 4.5x 4. 5cm. For treatment and diagnosis, we performed en-bloc resection and the defected chest was reconstucted with Gortex patch. Grossly, the specimen was colored graysh-white and arised in between two ribs The microscopic findings showed that the tumor cells were small round with scant pinkish cytoplasm on the H-E stain and the tumor cell nests were grouped by reticulum fibers and showed alveolar pattern on the silver stain The electromicroscopic finding presented that the cytoplasm contained tangled fibrillar and flocculent materials. The histopathologic findings were compatable with laveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. She was discharged without any complication. After discharge, she has been treated with radiation theraphy and chemotheraphy, and not recurred untill last follow-up We report a case of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma arising to intercostal muscle, developed in 12 year-old waman, with brief review of literatures.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권8호
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• pp.3351-3354
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• 2015

Background: Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in the pediatric age group. All patients with RMS regardless of their initial stage or group receive combination chemotherapy as 'standard therapy' consisting of vincristine, actinomycin-D and cyclophosphamide. Actinomycin-D was not readily available in Turkey at one time. Carboplatin was used instead in order to prevent delays in treatment. The aim of this report is to present the results of patients with rhabdomyosarcoma receiving carboplatin or actinomycin-D therapy. Materials and Methods: Twenty four patients with rhabdomyosarcoma treated between December 2000 and June 2011 were included in this retrospective study. The patients were treated according to International Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group guidelines. Eleven patients were treated with actinomycin-D and 13 with carboplatin ($250mg/m^2/dose$ for 2 days). The two groups were then compared in terms of 2- and 5-year overall survival (OS) and hematological and non-hematological toxicities. Results: Age, sex, stage and the mean duration of follow-up were similar in both groups (p>0.05). Two- and five-year OS levels were 68.2% in the carboplatin group and 78.0% and 40.0%, respectively, in the actinomycin-D group. There was no statistical difference in the number of febrile episodes (p=0.86) and no other hematological and non-hematological adverse effects were recorded in both groups. Conclusions: The findings show that carboplatin can be used as an alternative drug in the primary treatment of rhabdomyosarcoma in the event that actinomycin-D is unavailable or not tolerated.

• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.79.1-79.14
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• 2021

Background: In contrast to human medicine, only a small number of serum tumor markers are established in veterinary medicine even though they are a non-invasive diagnostic tool. Objectives: This study examined whether survivin could be suitable as a potential canine serum tumor marker. Methods: This study measured the serum survivin concentrations of dogs with mammary tumors (n = 33), squamous cell carcinoma (n = 9), soft-tissue sarcoma (n = 18) and multicentric lymphoma (n = 22), using a commercially available, competitive immunoassay kit (BlueGene). The serum survivin concentrations were compared with those of a healthy control group (n = 20) and a control group of dogs with non-neoplastic diseases (n = 17). Results: Dogs with malignant tumors had serum survivin concentrations between 15 and 5,906 pg/mL (median, 72 pg/mL), those in the healthy group ranged from 7 to 99 pg/mL (median, 21 pg/mL) and those in the group of dogs suffering from non-neoplastic diseases from 15 to 93 pg/mL (median, 42 pg/mL). The differences in the survivin concentrations between the healthy dogs and dogs with malignant tumors and between the dogs with non-neoplastic diseases and those with malignant tumors were significant (p < 0.001 and p = 0.006, respectively). Conclusions: The serum survivin concentrations in dogs with malignant tumors, with some exceptions, are higher than in dogs with benign tumors and dogs that do not suffer from a malignancy. Therefore, survivin can provide information on the presence of malignant tumors and be used as a tumor marker in dogs.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.444-447
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• 2022

Reconstruction of soft tissue defects around the knee is challenging, and the most common solution is to use various locoregional flaps or, in some difficult cases, a free flap. The distally based anterolateral thigh (dALT) flap is a commonly used flap that relies on reverse blood flow from the descending branch of the lateral circumflex femoral artery (d-LCFA). Here, we present the case of an anteromedial knee reconstruction using a dALT flap after resection of a pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcoma. The tumor resection resulted in a 14 × 7 cm defect, and a dALT flap, measuring 20 × 8 cm was elevated. During the surgery, we found a robust oblique branch of the LCFA (o-LCFA) sending off two sizable perforators to the anterolateral thigh region, whereas the d-LCFA was relatively small with no usable perforators. Therefore, we harvested a dALT flap relying on reverse flow from the o-LCFA. The patient's postoperative course was uneventful, and the flap survived without complications. This report demonstrates that reverse flow from the o-LCFA may be an alternative to nourish a dALT flap in cases where the d-LCFA is hypoplastic or suitable perforators from the d-LCFA are unavailable.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.69-78
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• 1995

연조직육종의 치료는 고전적으로 근치적 절제술이 사용되어 왔으나 최근에는 보존적 치료로 대치되고 있으며 이때 방사선치료의 역할도 입증되어 있다. 저자들은 1979년부터 1990년까지 11년 동안 서울대학교병원 치료방사선과에서 수술후 방사선치료를 시행한 연조직육종 환자 74명을 대상으로 후향 분석을 시행하여 방사선치료의 효과와 환자의 재발 및 생존에 영향을 미치는 예후인자를 알아보고자 하였다. 모든 환자의 병리조직학적 소견을 재판독하였으며 지방육종 및 악성섬유조직구종이 제일 많았다 17예에서 국소절제, 55예에서 광범위 절제 그리고 2예에서 근치적 구획절제가 시행되었으며 11예에서는 항암화학요법이 병행되었다. 방사선치료선량의 중앙값은 6000cGy(범위 4200-8820cgy)였으며 환자들의 중앙추적기간은 51개월(범위 3-145개월)이었다. 국소치유율은 5년에 $62.2\%$, 8년에 $60.0\%$이었다. 조직학적 등급, 절제변연의 침윤여부가 국소치유율에 영향을 미치는 유의한 예후인자였으며 조직학적 유형중에서는 지방육종의 경우가 높은 국소치유율을 나타내었다. 전체 생존율은 5년에 $72.3\%$, 8년에 $58.5\%$이었으며, 무병생존율은 5년에 $53.3\%$, 8년에 $48.3\%$이었다. 생존 및 원격전이에 영향을 주는 예후인자로는 역시 조직학적 등급, 절제변연의 침윤여부가 중요하였으며 육종의 발생부위도 생존율에 영향을 주었다. 대부분의 재발은 국소에서 일어났으나 17명의 환자에서는 원격전이가 일어났으며 주로 폐를 침범하였다. 원격전이후의 생존율은 3년에 $15.1\%$로서 원격전이가 생존율을 결정하는 중요한 요인임을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 연조직육종 환자의 수술시 충분한 절제변연을 얻는 것이 매우 중요하며 절제변연이 침범된 경우에는 재수술을 시행함으로써 국소치유율을 향상시킬 필요가 있는 것으로 판단된다. 또한 궁극적인 생존율의 향상을 위하여는 효과적인 항암제의 개발이 시급하다 하겠다.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.526-532
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• 1995

두경부의 악성 종양의 진단에서 $^{99m}Tc$-(V)-DMSA 영상술은 비교적 높은 양성율을 보여 주었고 (Planar 65%, SPECT 90%), 원격 전이부위의 영상진단에도 도움이 되었다. 그러나 $^{99m}Tc$-(V)-DMSA는 두경부의 양성 병변에도 섭취가 될 수 있어, 판독 시 임상검사 및 다른 영상소견과의 비교검토가 필요할 것으로 판단된다.