An Oncocytic Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Mimicking As Metastatic Adenocarcinoma: A Diagnostic Challenge.

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common type of thyroid carcinoma, diagnosed on the basis of a predefined set of distinctive nuclear features. There are about 15 known variants of papillary thyroid carcinoma, and the oncocytic variant is not one of the commonly encountered prototypic conventional papillary thyroid carcinoma. We hereby report an unusual case of a 48-year-old woman presenting with thyroid swelling, which proved to be a diagnostic crisis.

IMAGES: Ectopic thymic cyst: a rare case report.

Ectopic thymic tissue in the neck is rarely reported in medical literature. Being uncommon, they are rarely included in the clinical diagnosis of cervical cystic masses and are misdiagnosed by surgeons as branchial cysts, lymphatic malformations, epidermoid cysts, dermoid cysts or thyroglossal cysts, lymphadenitis or neoplastic masses. Although it is rare, cervical thymic cyst should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a lateral cystic neck mass.

A rare case of inflammatory myofibroblastoma of diaphragm.

Inflammatory myofibroblastoma is a distinctive pseudosarcomatous lesion that occurs primarily in the viscera and soft tissue of children and young adults. It is composed of myofibroblastic spindle cells accompanied by an inflammatory infiltrate of plasma cells, lymphocytes, and eosinophils. We report a 41-year-old man who presented with progressive dyspnea and pain in the right hypochondrium for 6 months.

Cutaneous mercury granuloma.

Cutaneous mercury granuloma is rarely encountered. Clinically it may pose difficulty in diagnosis. Here, we report a 23-year-old male presented with erythematous, nodular lesions over the forearm and anterior aspect of chest wall.

A rare case of disseminated cysticercosis.

Cysticercosis is a common tropical disease. One of the uncommon manifestations and a rare complication is its disseminated form (DCC). Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the common parasitic disease of the central nervous system.

FNAC in the diagnosis of lymph node malignancies: A simple and sensitive tool.

Context: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the lymph node is a simple diagnostic tool to diagnose suspected and unsuspected secondary and primary lymph node malignancy.

Aim: To study the utility of FNAC in the diagnosis of clinically suspected and unsuspected lymph node malignancy.

Design: A cross-sectional hospital based study on 50 patients diagnosed to have primary or secondary lymph node malignancy by cytology, and confirmed by histopathology.

Carcinoma en cuirasse : a rare presentation of breast cancer.

Carcinoma en cuirasse is a form of cutaneous metastasis. Although this condition is rare, it is most commonly associated with breast carcinoma with local recurrence after mastectomy. Cutaneous metastasis presents most commonly a few months or years after the primary has been diagnosed.