Fat-forming solitary fibrous tumors arising from the kidney are extremely rare, with only few cases reported so far. We report the case of a 49-year-old patient investigated for lumbar pain and diagnosed preoperatively with a large retroperitoneal tumor destroying the right kidney. The patient was submitted to surgery, the tumor being resected en bloc with right nephrectomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe role of arthroscopic surgery for the treatment of various orthopedic pathologies has greatly improved during the last years. Recent publications showed that benign bone lesion may benefit from this minimally invasive surgical method, in order to minimize the invasiveness and the period of immobilization and to increase visualization. Unicameral bone cysts may be adequately treated by minimally invasive endoscopic surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndometriosis is a gynecologic condition affecting mainly the pelvic organs. However, extrapelvic endometriosis has been reported in almost all parts of the body. Umbilical endometriosis, either primary or secondary, is uncommon and has a documented neoplastic risk.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRetinal vein occlusion (RVO) is the second most common retinal vein disease with significant visual loss via thrombus or compression of vein wall. Thrombophilia is the predisposition to vascular thrombosis with the existence of genetic defect that leads to blood hypercoagulability. This report describes the case of a 55 year old male patient, with an active life who presented himself at the emergency room with acute visual lose, insidious and progressive visual field constriction, without any known history of neurological or vascular diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVulvar neoplasia represents 5% of malignancies in female genital tract and 0.6% of all cancers in women. Although it is known to be a rare type of cancer, which occurs especially in elderly women, its incidence is increasing in young females because of its association with the human papillomavirus (HPV).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOVD's are pseudoplastic fluids used in anterior segment surgery, their correct use decrease the incidence of complications. Arshinoff classified OVD's according to their properties and described optimal techniques for their use. The three classes are represented by viscoadaptive, cohesinve and dispersive OVD's, used in different steps of the surgery and their behavior is influenced by operating parameters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi
November 2012
Widening of the upper jaw by undoing the median suture is a relatively common clinical procedure and the histological studies on sutural tissues, both immediately after disjunction and post disjunction are relatively rare. The present research aims to study cellular changes caused after undoing the median maxillary suture, on a strain of common rabbit breed, in an attempt to prove that the purpose of this therapeutic technique is obtaining neoformed osseous tissue, as a guarantee of the stability of orthodontic treatment results. Of course, changes in rabbit desmale tissues cannot be fully assimilated to the human ones.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of corneal pathology that presents indication for cornea/transplant, treatment and follow-up of these patients.
Materials And Methods: A retrospective analysis has been undertaken at the Tg. Mures Ophthalmology Hospital.