Publications by authors named "Reham Albrijawy"

Unlabelled: Ovarian fibrothecoma are a mostly benign and profoundly rare type of gonadal stromal cell tumor. It makes up 3-4% of all kinds of ovarian neoplasia. They are predominantly unilateral in origin and mostly present in women during the postmenopausal phase.

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Introduction And Importance: A choledochal cyst is a rare congenital biliary tract pathology. It displays an evident dilation that could arise in any part along the biliary tree. Its incidence rate reflects its rarity when it takes place in 1 per 100,000-to-150,000 newborns.

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Introduction And Importance: Benign cystic teratoma considered an extragonadal germ cell tumor that can present at any age and mostly located in the anterior mediastinum, only 3 %-8 % are in the posterior mediastinum. Meningomyelocele is an abnormal herniation of the meninges that located in most cases posteriorly in lumbosacral spine. Cervicothoracic meningomyelocele are rare entities resemble only 1 %-5 % of all neural tube defects.

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Introduction And Importance: Acral Lentiginous Melanoma (ALM) transpires in a profoundly scarce percentage of the population and is intercalated with a low survival rate. This is partly because such tumors are chiefly diagnosed at an advanced stage. Diagnosis is delayed largely due to the difficulties in recognizing the early histopathological signs and clinical presentations of Acral Melanoma.

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Introduction And Importance: Congenital Infantile fibrosarcoma is a rare tumor in children and accounts for only 10 % of various malignant tumors in this age group. Manifestations vary according to the site of occurrence. Symptoms of the tumor located in unusual places can be misleading and obscure the actual diagnosis, which in turn may waste precious effort and time until the correct diagnosis is established.

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Introduction And Importance: Mucinous cell neoplasia are rare and conceivably fatal causes of surgical abdomen. Adult manifestations can be obscure and ill-defined, yielding misdiagnoses and wasting precious time and effort to reach the correct one. Clinical awareness ought to be present once presented with a surgical abdomen in such a patient because this neoplasm may present with misleading presentations which mask the actual diagnosis and masquerade as a different one, and in turn, may result in performing a dissimilar treatment intervention.

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Introduction And Importance: Midgut Malrotation (MM) is a potentially fatal and rare congenital anomaly that results from an incomplete rotation of the bowel 270 degrees around the Superior Mesenteric Axis. Newborns are the most affected age group, nevertheless, adult malrotation can manifest, but in a much rarer incidence rate. Clinical awareness must be present when faced with a surgical abdomen in an adolescent patient because this pathology can have several misleading signs and symptoms which may eclipse the true preoperative diagnosis and masquerade as another, and this could result in implementing a different therapeutic approach.

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Introduction And Importance: The gastrointestinal system is the most common site for extra-nodal NHL. Adolescent population are among the rarest of compromised groups, especially males. The gastrointestinal system is more involved by secondary metastasis rather than by primary lymphomas.

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Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a common form of soft tissue sarcoma. Primary colonic LMS is an extremely rare entity, comprising 1-2% of gastrointestinal malignancies. Primary mesenchymal sarcomas of the gastrointestinal system are rare and constitute just 0.

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Introduction And Importance: Meckel's Diverticulum (MD) is the most occurring congenital anomaly of the gastrointestinal tract. It characterizes a patent remnant of the omphalomesenteric duct. Despite remaining asymptomatic most of the time, the rarity of its occurrence is reflected by the scarcity of data involving it in the literature.

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