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D C Tabor
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Localized blast crisis in the spleen in a patient with chronic myelocytic leukemia.
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Plasma beta-thromboglobulin levels in lung cancer.
beta-Thromboglobulin (beta-TG) is a platelet-specific protein that is released into plasma when platelets are activated in vivo. The involvement of platelets in tumor metastasis has been shown in animal studies. To study the role of platelets in tumor metastasis in humans, we measured plasma concentrations of beta-TG in 20 patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer and 11 healthy control subjects. The mean plasma concentration of beta-TG was significantly elevated in patients with advanced or metastatic lung cancer when compared with concentrations in healthy controls or patients with limited disease. This study suggests there is in vivo activation of platelets in patients with advanced or metastatic lung cancer.
Ripe and unripe: concepts of health and sickness in Ayurvedic medicine.
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Intraductal "noninfiltrating" carcinoma of the breast.
We are reviewing 40 patients with noninvasive intraductal carcients; 10% developed oppostie breast cancer of the invasive variety. Twenty-one patients underwent radical mastectomy in which one patient was found to have a positive axillary node. The 19 remaining patients had total mastectomy alone. No recurrence of death attributed to intraductal carcinoma was found in 39 patients available for follow-up.