Granulomatous Mastitis during Chronic Antidepressant Therapy: Is It Possible a Conservative Therapeutic Approach?

Granulomatous mastitis is a rare benign inflammatory disease of the breast with multiple etiologies such as tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, foreign body reaction, and mycotic and parasitic infections. In contrast, idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is characterized by the presence of chronic granulomatous lobulitis in the absence of an obvious etiology. Clinically and radiologically it may mimic breast carcinoma and so awareness of surgeons, pathologists, and radiologists is essential to avoid unnecessary mastectomies.

An unexpected surprise at the end of a "quiet" cholecystectomy. A case report and review of the literature.

Background: Anatomic unexpected variations in biliary tree may be discovered during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Case Report: A 57-year-old man was admitted for abdominal pain, vomiting and mild jaundice. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed a gallbladder containing multiple stones and biliary sludge.

Isolated polyarteritis nodosa of the large bowel: a case report.

Polyarteritis nodosa is a form of vasculitis that affects several organs. Gastrointestinal involvement is frequent, but cases in which the gastrointestinal tract is the only site of disease are rare. In this paper we report a case of a 70-year-old patient with polyarteritis nodosa restricted to the large intestine, who underwent a total colectomy.

Adrenal epithelioid angiosarcoma: a case report.

We report what to the best of our knowledge is the first case of primary angiosarcoma of the adrenal gland. A 49-year-old woman, with blunt abdominal trauma, was admitted to our department. Computed tomography revealed a suspected rupture of a liver neoplasm and surgical treatment was performed.