Schwannoma of the Upper Limb: Retrospective Study of a Rare Tumor with Uncommon Locations.

Background: Although schwannoma (neurilemmoma) is the most common tumor of the peripheral nerve, its low incidence, slow growth and vague symptoms often lead to misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis. The aim of the study is to present a series with a large number of schwannomas in the upper limbs, some with very rare occurrence.

Methods: We report 17 patients with a mean age of 58.

Clinical, histopathological and immunohistochemical features of glomus tumor of the nail bed.

Purpose: Glomus tumors account for 1-4% of benign hand tumors. In 65% of cases, it is located in the nail bed. Its rarity makes misdiagnosis problems relatively common.

Idiopathic tenosynovitis with rice bodies.

Purpose: Idiopathic tenosynovitis with rice bodies is a rare disease and its non-association with rheumatic diseases, tuberculosis infection or trauma is reported only in few cases in literature.

Patients, Materials And Methods: Our study presents a series of five patients diagnosed with tenosynovitis with rice bodies at the flexor tendons of the upper limb. Medical history revealed no associated disease or trauma.

Polymorphism of clinical manifestation of HPV infection in the genital mucosa - 3-year retrospective study.

Background: Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are associated with a wide variety of cutaneous and mucosal infections and with malignancies in humans. More than 100 HPV types have been identified, some of which have affinity for skin and others for mucosal sites.

Aim: The purpose of this study came from our desire to support the "Stop Cervical Cancer" campaign, adopted as "Cervical Cancer Removed as a Public Health Problem", following the World Health Organization (WHO) initiative in 2019-2020.

[Multiple primary cancers with different localizations and histologic types. Clinical case].

The authors describe the case of male patient of 46 years old, which was diagnosticated with 4 cancers of different localization and histopathological types in the course of 6 years. In chronological order these 4 neoplazias were: the Hodgkin's disease with mixed cellularity, the malign parieto-frontal right meningioma, a Grawitz renal tumor and a lung adenocarcinoma with bilateral lung and pleural metastasis. For both cerebral and renal tumors the patient was given a surgical treatment and for the Hodgkin's disease and lung cancer given chemotherapy and cobalt therapy.