Reninoma or juxtaglomerular cell tumor is a rare usually benign renal renin secreting tumor. We report the case of an 18-year old woman, without any medical history, investigated in our hospital's emergency department for a bilateral papilledema. Ambulatory ophthalmological investigations were performed because of a newly occurring blurry vision, associated with diffuse headaches.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale: Cystic lymphangioma (CL) is a rare benign tumor resulting from a failure of the lymphatic system development. It may occur at any age but it is more frequent during childhood. Its clinical presentation and location are various but abdominal CL are uncommon.
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February 2018
The current report presents a case of an omental fibromatosis discovered incidentally in a 46-year-old woman with no particular medical history and few symptoms. A surgical biopsy was performed initially, and microscopic examination revealed myofibroblastic proliferation. After additional immunohistochemical and molecular analyses, omental fibromatosis was diagnosed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this paper is to report the clinicopathological data of one case of mixed metastatic adenoneuroendocrine carcinoma (MANEC) in the caecum; less than ten cases of which have been described in the English literature. A 57-year-old male patient presented with a mixed adenoneuroendocrine carcinoma (MANEC) of the caecum with liver metastasis and peritoneal carcinomatosis. An emergency right hemicolectomy and omentectomy were performed, followed by several cycles of unsuccessful palliative chemotherapy.
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