Multiple cutaneous and uterine leiomyomas associated with gastric GIST.

Background: There are a number of reports documenting familial cases of leiomyomatosis cutis associated with uterine leiomyomata. However, to our knowledge, the association of gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) with this entity has not as yet been reported. We report an interesting case of cutaneous leiomyomatosis, metachronous uterine leiomyomata, and a gastric GIST in a 43-year-old woman.

Localized and adaptive synoviocyte proliferation characteristics in rat knee joint contractures secondary to immobility.

Objective: To investigate the proliferative activity of synoviocytes in joint contracture.

Design: Experimental controlled trial.

Setting: Laboratory in vivo study.

Isolated pleural PTLD after cardiac transplantation.

Unlabelled: PREAMBLE: Epstein-Barr virus infection (EBV) and immunosuppression promote emergence of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD) in patients undergoing organ transplantation.

Objective: We report a case of PTLD confined to the pleura.

Findings: The patient was a 62-year-old male who had undergone cardiac transplant in 1993 for ischemic heart disease.

Aneurysmal bone cyst associated with fibrous dysplasia.

We report the clinicopathologic features of a 22-year-old patient with aneurysmal bone cyst and fibrous dysplasia of the orbit. The patient was evaluated clinically with computed tomography of the orbit before surgery. An orbital biopsy specimen was examined histologically with conventional light microscopy.