[Good response to colchicine in amyloidosis secondary to inflammatory bowel disease].

Acquired systemic amyloidosis may develop during the course of a number of chronic inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease. Amyloidosis, although rare, is life-threatening, especially when it involves the kidneys. It is important to recognize this complication, especially since colchicine has been proposed as a possible treatment.

[Testicular epidermoid cyst].

Objective: Benign tumors account for less than 1% of testicular tumors and the incidence is even lower in children. A rare case of epidermoid cyst of the testis in a child is described. The differential diagnosis and treatment options are discussed.

Utility of fine-needle aspiration in the diagnosis of granulomatous lesions of the breast.

Fourteen cases of granulomatous mastitis (GM) studied by fine-needle aspiration (FNA) are reviewed and nine cytologic features (necrosis, neutrophil granulocytes, foamy cells, plasma cells, granulomas, epitheloid cells, multinucleated giant cells of foreign body type and Langhans' type, duct cells, and the presence of acid-fast bacilli) are reappraised in a semiquantitative manner. The main objective of this study was to find out if one or more of these features would permit the various granulomatous entities identified in surgical pathology to be separated cytologically. The results suggest that FNA does not permit the various granulomatous lesions identified in surgical pathology to be differentiated, since in this series different entities share a common cytologic pattern.

Follicular variant of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid: to what extent is fine-needle aspiration reliable?

We have reappraised the fine-needle aspirates (FNAs) of 5 cases of the follicular variant of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid (FVPCT). Three of these had been performed on cold thyroid nodules and had been diagnosed as follicular proliferations. The remaining 2 had been performed on cervical lymphadenopathies and had been diagnosed as metastatic papillary carcinoma, probably of thyroid origin.

[Follicular bronchiolitis: an infrequent cause of interstitial pneumopathy].

A 63-year-old woman with follicular bronchiolitis presenting as diffuse interstitial pneumopathy is described. Diagnosis was made by open lung biopsy and the patient was treated in our department until death. The course of disease and response to treatment was similar to that observed in cases of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

[Eosinophilic cystitis. Study of the clinical course in 6 new cases and review of the recent literature].

Presentation of a series of 6 cases of eosinophilic cystitis diagnosed in our hospital and recorded in 1988-1993, with an average follow-up of 2 years from time of diagnosis. The actual trend with regard to this particular form of chronic cystitis is to abandon the idea of considering it a "benign" disease, basically due to its increasingly less uncommon association to bladder and/or prostate tumoral pathology (in the recent literature and most particular in the present series). Also, a relative increase in the frequency of occurrence of this disease is noted, because of chemoprophylaxis of surface bladder tumour with Mitomycin-C, an association which is increasingly frequent.