Pilocytic astrocytoma (PA) is a circumscribed neoplasia considered as a grade I astrocytoma by the World Health Organization. Its most common location is the cerebellum and it develops during the first two decades of the life. Prognosis is mostly excellent if gross-total resection can be achieved, with 10-year survival rates of up to 80%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExtragenital malignant mixed mesodermal müllerian tumors (MT) are rare neoplasms with poor prognosis. Most of them affect women older than 60 years. We present here a case with primary peritoneal malignant mixed müllerian tumor occurring in a young woman who underwent previous hysterectomy and double oophorectomy secondary to a benign disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To report a case of a 5-year-old child with CHARGE association and bilateral conjunctival mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma treated with topical interferon-alpha.
Methods: Case report.
Results: A 5-year-old girl, diagnosed with nonclassical CHARGE association and hyper-immunoglobulin M (IgM) syndrome, was referred with a 2-month history of suspected purulent bilateral streptococcal conjunctivitis.
Carcinomas arising from the Stensen's duct are extremely rare, and only 28 cases have been reported since 1927. Only two cases of the whole were adenoid cystic carcinoma like our case. A 83-year-old man with painless tumour of the left cheek is reported.
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