This population-based data set represents the trend of treatments over time at community and tertiary care cancer treatment sites. Over a 10-year period an increased proportion of patients were treated with first-line chemotherapy and an even greater number with second-/third-line treatment with an associated improvement in overall survival.
A case ofrecurrent intussusception in a 76 year old man associated with vascular proliferation is reported. The initial biopsy specimen showed that ulceration and inflammation were not features. The proliferation was so florid as to point to an angiomatous lesion. At this stage a diagnosis of intussusception was not considered. The clinical impression was that of a caecal mass associated with a filling defect visible on barium enema and a fleshy "suspicious" lesion on colonoscopy.This case illustrates the possibility of misinterpreting the importance of florid vascular proliferation in biopsy material where other features indicative of a reparative process are absent. ina propria. The surface epithelium was singlelayered, intact though thin, and inflammation was not a feature. The vascular proliferation was so pronounced, and especially in the absence of inflammation, raised the possibility of a primary angiomatous lesion (fig 1). The clinical information of a localised "suspicious" lesion further supported this possibility.The subsequent hemicolectomy specimen consisted of 23 cm of terminal ileum and 17 cm of caecum and ascending colon with an attached appendix. Eight centimetres from the proximal resection margin was a 2-5 cm smooth mucosal covered polyp consisting of fat. Adjacent and distal to the polyp, the mucosa was raised and irregular (the site previously biopsied) and the ileo-caecal valve was oedematous (fig 2).Microscopic examination of the leading (J Clin Pathol 1993;46:91-92)
A case of lymphoepithelial cyst of the pancreas is reported. The unilocular cyst was filled with keratin, lined by mature, keratinizing squamous epithelium and surrounded by lymphoid tissue.
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