SUMMARY: A 21-year-old healthy Korean man worked on a building construction site every day for almost 2 months and exercised every day for 1 or 2 hours after working hard. He felt dizziness, nausea, and experienced vomiting and body aches immediately after exercise and immediately took cold medicines including acetaminophen, cimetidine, bepotastine, and Codenal? complex for the common cold symptoms for 2 days because he was scheduled to participate in navy training at that time. He complained of severe trapezius pain and aches in his left calf 3 days after joining the Navy training. Testing revealed creatine phosphokinase (CPK) 6260 U/L, myogloblin 176 mcg/L in the urine, liver enzymes increased, and oliguria, suggesting rhabdomyolysis. He recovered with intravenous fluids without any complications.
Acetaminophen ; Cimetidine ; Common Cold ; Creatine Kinase ; Dizziness ; Humans ; Liver ; Nausea ; Oliguria ; Rhabdomyolysis* ; Superficial Back Muscles ; Vomiting ; Young Adult

Hepatitis-associated aplastic anemia is a rare disease, but can be fatal if it is diagnosed late or untreated. Despite the previous case report of severe aplastic anemia following hepatitis, hepatitis A virus (HAV)-associated aplastic anemia is very rare, and a case with bone marrow transplantation (BMT) has not been reported in the literature. Here, we report the case of a 13-year-old boy, who developed severe aplastic anemia after full recovery of acute HAV infection, and eventually received BMT for aplastic anemia following HAV infection. It is a very rare case and the first case that recovered after BMT. The aim of this case report is to highlight the potential of progression to aplastic anemia after acute HAV infection and the importance of suspicion when pancytopenia is developed.
Adolescent ; Anemia, Aplastic* ; Bone Marrow Transplantation ; Hepatitis ; Hepatitis A ; Hepatitis A virus* ; Humans ; Male ; Pancytopenia ; Rare Diseases

Although in the past two decades there has been a sharp rise in the incidence of extranodal primary lymphomas, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) of the female genital tract is still rare. There is still no consensus on the management of cervical lymphomas. The malignant lymphoma localized in uterine cervix is rare and characteristically symptom free expressed. A 26-year-old woman presented in March 2004 with uterine bleeding. After the patient underwent punch biopsy, primary cervical malignant lymphoma was diagnosed. Six courses of chemotherapy were administered in an adjuvant setting. Thirty-nine months (May 2007) after the diagnosis the patient was alive and without signs of recurrent disease. In this report, one case of primary cervical lymphoma diagnosed by punch biopsy is reported and associated literature is discussed.
Adult ; Biopsy ; Cervix Uteri* ; Consensus ; Diagnosis ; Drug Therapy ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Lymphoma* ; Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms ; Uterine Hemorrhage

Primary cervical carcinosarcoma is very rare malignancy with fewer than 50 documented cases in the literature, which is a histologic variant of cervical cancer. In addition, sarcomatoid squamous cell carcinoma has been described in only 4 prior cases. We experienced a case of 42 year-old female with sarcomatoid squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix. We report this case with a brief review of literatures.
Adult ; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell* ; Carcinosarcoma ; Cervix Uteri* ; Female ; Humans ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

The incidence of multiple primary malignancy is extremely rare although the prevalence rate is increasing recently. There are several reasons of increment of multiple primary malignancy. First, the advances in the treatment and the diagnostic modality of malignancy have led to increased survival rate. So many of the patients who survived the first cancer could live long enough to develop additional primary cancers. Second, the long term effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy have been proved oncogenic. Third, increasing age, environmental carcinogen, some kinds of viral infection, and genetic predisposition have potentials for multiple carcinogenesis. Most of multiple primary cancer is double primary, however triple primary cancer is rare. We experienced a case of triple primary cancer involving endometrium, colon, and stomach. We report this case with a review of literatures.
Carcinogenesis ; Colon ; Drug Therapy ; Endometrial Neoplasms* ; Endometrium ; Female ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease ; Humans ; Incidence ; Prevalence ; Stomach ; Survival Rate