Introduction And Importance: Approximately 30 % of population can have an accessory spleen, which is most often asymptomatic. Only when it becomes large in size, it may elicit symptoms, mostly due to complications, such as torsion, infarction, or traumatic hemorrhage. The preoperative diagnosis of an accessory spleen is often challenging due to its propensity to manifest the neoplasms of adjacent organs.
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August 2022
Retrocecal appendicitis usually presents with atypical signs and symptoms which may lead to delayed diagnosis, perforation and serious complications. Development of a large lung abscess secondary to perforation of retrocecal appendicitis in an adolescent patient is an extremely rare entity and to the best of our knowledge has not been described in literature. We present a 15-year-old boy with complaint of chest pain, cough, fever, vague abdominal pain and raised inflammatory markers who underwent CT examination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Importance: Giant cell granulomas (GCG) and ossifying fibroma (OF) of the jaw are benign reactive lesions. GCG characterized by the presence of abundant multinucleated giant cells in a cellular stroma. On the other hand, the characteristic feature of OF is benign connective tissue replaces the normal bone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFis a rare highly developed mature teratoma with organoid differentiation although it is not as developed as fetus in fetus which is the only differential diagnosis of this entity. It should be distinguished from the fetus in fetu by absence of the axial skeleton. A 6-month-old baby girl with a lumbar lump underwent ultrasonography, CT-scan and surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 10-year-old boy with the history of headache, anorexia, and vomiting was referred to our department to undergo a brain CT scan. CT images demonstrated a well-defined, rounded, hyperdense lesion at the level of the foramen of Monro causing moderate dilatation of the lateral ventricles. An 11-year-old girl with a long history of a headache was also referred to undergoing a brain MRI.
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