The most common cause of coronary artery aneurysms is atherosclerosis, which is associated with over 50% of all aneurysms diagnosed in adults. Although patients can be asymptomatic throughout their lives, giant coronary artery aneurysms can manifest themselves as myocardial infarction, aneurysmal rupture, and sudden cardiac death as well. Herein, we describe an asymptomatic patient with numerous risk factors and a positive cardiopulmonary exercise test who was admitted to the cardiology clinic for coronary angiography.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Masses inside the heart can cause serious and life-threatening effects to the cardiovascular system, mainly because of hemodynamic obstruction of the blood flow, either in the heart cavities themselves or remotely due to embolization. In this paper, we report a case of left ventricular tumor mass which presented with neurological symptoms due to multiple brain embolism.
Case Report: A 35-year-old female patient presented with right hemiparesis and dysarthria.
Introduction: Thymoma is a rare malignant tumor of the anterior mediastinum. Thymic squamous cell carcinoma has been recognized as an aggressive form of thymoma with different behavior. It is associated with paraneoplastic syndromes, variety of clinical presentations, different way of treatment and complex prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Carcinoma of the esophagus is in the eighth place by the frequency of malignant diseases and the sixth cause of death from cancer worldwide. It usually metastasizes to regional lymph nodes, liver, lungs, central nervous system, and bones, but metastases can appear to unusual locations such as facial skin and lips.
Case Report: We presented a 56- year-old man who reported to his physician because of upper lip swelling.
Introduction: The malignant transformation of the branchial cysts epithelium is rare and it represents separate entity called branchiogenic carcinoma.
Case Report: A 55-year-old male with fluctuating mass localized on the right side of the neck, was admitted to the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, General hospital in Vrbas where cystic tumor 3 cm in its greatest dimension with friable, dark red wall below the front edge of the sternocleidomastoid muscle was revealed. The wall of the tumor was composed of lymphoid tissue with germinal centers.
Introduction: Cavernous hemangiomas are benign vascular tumours rarely described in the lungs. Symptoms include respiratory distress, cardiac failure and massive haemoptysis, but they are mostly asymptomatic.
Case Report: A 67-year-old woman was referred to our institute and treated for pneumonia.