Renal leiomyoma is a benign finding in kidney pathology. It has been documented in various organs; renal location is less frequent and has been rarely documented in the literature. We present here the case of a renal leiomyoma revealed by an abdominal mass and flank pain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Malignant insulinoma is a rare neuroendocrine tumor responsible for excessive insulin secretion and life-threatening hypoglycemia episodes. Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen can identify a pancreatic tumor corresponding to insulinoma. Loco-regional metastases define the metastatic cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Breast angiosarcoma is a rare, aggressive tumour affecting adult women. It can occur in two forms, primary form and secondary forms or radiation-induced breast angiosarcoma affecting patients with history of breast or chest radiotherapy.
Case Presentation: The authors report a new case of breast angiosarcoma in 52-year-old women, with history of invasive ductal carcinoma, and reporting a discoloration of her breast skin.
Introduction And Importance: Secondary metastases to the rectum from primary ovarian cancer are a rare entity and their diagnosis and management are challenging. In this report, we discuss the findings of the case of metastatic ovarian cancer to supraclavicular lymph nodes and the rectum complicated with rectovaginal fistula.
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old woman was admitted for abdominal pain with rectal bleeding.
Background: Inherited mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) confer high risks of breast and ovarian cancer. Because the contribution of BRCA1/2 germline mutations to BC in the Northeastern population of Morocco remains largely unknown, we conducted this first study to evaluate the prevalence and the phenotypic spectrum of two BRCA1/2 pathogenic mutations (the founder BRCA1 c.5309G>T and BRCA2 c.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrimary vaginal sarcoma is a rare disease entity, reported in less than 3% of cases of vaginal cancers. We report the observation of a patient treated at the regional oncology center of Oujda in Morocco who is presented with a non-metastatic primary vaginal leiomyosarcoma of 20 cm. The treatment consisted of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, followed by hemostatic surgery with tumor resection limits, reinforced by radiotherapy and then a surgical resection with a tumor resection taking away the infiltrated part of the anterior face of the lower rectum and the realization of a left iliac colostomy whose resected tumor part limits were healthy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Hydatid disease (HD) is a parasitic pathology that remains endemic in Morocco and poses a public health problem. Its location in the psoas muscle is a rare entity. We report this case highlighting the diagnostic challenges, therapeutic modalities as well as prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrichilemmal carcinoma (TC) is a rare skin malignant tumor with pillar differentiation. TC presents along with other malignant hair follicle tumors and accounts for only 1% of all adnexal carcinomas. TC usually occurs on sun-exposed skin in elderly people, nevertheless, it can occur at any age.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTransitional cell carcinoma (TCC) is an extremely rare gynecologic tumor, particularly in the endometrium. All endometrial TCC cases reported so far in the literature were diagnosed at relatively advanced stages. In the present article, we report a pure primary endometrial TCC initially revealed by an abdominal mass and classified as an International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics stage IA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Melanosis peritonei is an exceptionally benign condition of uncertain origin marked by the deposition of dark pigments on the peritoneal cavity. It's usually associated with other abnormalities and must be differentiated from metastatic melanoma.
Case Presentation: We report this case of a 67-year-old female presented for abdominal distension for 16 months.
Background: Little data is available about colon laparoscopic surgery in low mid-income countries. The aim of this study was to audit the status and results of laparoscopic colon cancer surgery in Morocco.
Patients And Methods: This was a prospective study performed at 4 academic departments in Morocco between January 1, 2018, and March 31, 2020.
Schwannomas are benign and rare entities of peripheral nerve sheath origin. The clinical presentation depends the size of tumor, and they may cause symptoms of abdominal pain, urinary difficulties, anemia, hematuria, and abdominal mass as a result of the pressure of the tumor to the adjacent structures. The diagnosis can only be established by immunohistochemical study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDermatofibrosarcoma is a rare cancer, accounting for 0.01% of all cancers. We here report the case of a 44-year-old female patient presenting with the 5 recurrence of locally advanced Darier-Ferrand dermatofibrosarcoma, that progressed on many cycles of neoadjuvant therapy and required emergency radiotherapy with good response.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the digestive tract.
Presentation Of Case: 54-year-old woman with a history of phyllodes tumor of the left breast he patient was admitted to our hospital for management of retroperitoneal soft tissue tumor, attached to the fourth portion of the duodenum, opposite the head of the pancreas. The patient underwent a large excision of the tumor, the duodenojejunal flexure, and the third and fourth portions of the duodenum along with the head of the pancreas.
Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a single-stranded RNA virus identified for the first time in Wuhan, China, and it unfurls quickly worldwide. The corona virus 2019 is a systemic disease which develops a prothrombotic environment, and has an extensive spectrum of clinical presentations in the gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary systems. Ischemic hepatitis (hypoxic hepatitis) is one potential mechanism behind lessened perfusion of the liver.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVagus nerve schwannoma is a very rare benign nerve tumor. Pheochromocytoma is a rare, mostly benign tumor of the adrenal medulla with a large clinical spectrum. Their association is uncommon.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Adrenal myelolipomas are rare non-functioning benign tumors composed of adipose and hematopoietic tissues. Most AMLs are discovered incidentally and represent the second most common adrenal incidentaloma.
Case Presentation: A 58-years-old female patient, obese with a history of diabetes and blood hypertension presented with complaints of pain in the left flank.
Introduction: Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) constitute a group of rare conditions with a potential for malignant degeneration. The appearance of symptoms should suggest degeneration. This case demonstrates an unusual case of a patient presenting an intestinal type IPMN that was revealed by a large abdominal mass.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumors (EGISTs) are rare mesenchymal tumors located outside the gastrointestinal tract, and exhibit the same phenotypic and morphological profile of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs).
Case Report: We report the case of a 20-year-old male patient consulted for chronic discomfort in the hypogastric region. Abdominal ultrasound and abdomino-pelvic CT scan identified a retro-vesical mass measuring 16 × 9 cm.
Sister Mary-Joseph nodule (NSMJ) is a cutaneous metastasis of the umbilicus, rare and accounts for 2-3% of the patients with advanced stages of colorectal adenocarcinoma. Here we report the observation of a 48-year-old Moroccan man, referred to our hospital to manage a painful ulcero-budding nodule of the umbilicus; computed tomography revealed that the processes infiltrated the urachus and the bladder. Laboratory parameters were normal and radical surgery was performed to remove the tumor and embryological remnant of the umbilicus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Desmoid tumors are benign fibrous entities developed from connective tissue, and they result from muscle fascia or aponeurosis. Surgical excision is the main pillar of treatment.
Case Report: A 29-year-old female patient presented with a left postero-lateral cervical swelling that had been evolving for 11 months.
Evisceration and necrosis of the greater omentum at the site of a prolapsed colostomy is a rare situation. Considered an early stoma complication, it often occurs during the first month after surgery. We report the observation and our attitude to such a situation in a 56-year-old patient who underwent initial surgery for a locally advanced rectal adenocarcinoma after receiving neoadjuvant radio-chemotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (HEHE) is a rare tumor of vascular origin. Liver involvement is often multinodular simulating metastases. Herein, we report a rare case of HEHE mimicking liver metastases in a female patient.
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