Breast amyloidosis associated with Sjögren syndrome: A diagnostic pitfall in breast pathology.

Background: Amyloidosis is an uncommon disorder characterized by the extracellular deposition of amorphous and insoluble proteins in an abnormal fibrillary configuration. Mammary amyloidosis is an unusual and easily overlooked diagnosis with an ambivalent presentation that could mimic breast cancer.

Case Report: We here report the case of 60-year-old Caucasian woman who presented to our surgical oncology department for clinically and radiologically suspicious breast mass.

Health-related Quality of Life and Determinants of the Mental Dimension Among Tunisian Nurses in Public Hospitals.

Background: The health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) has been in-creasingly investigated in health sciences. The Objectives of this study are to evaluate the HR-QoL among nurses in Tunisian public hospitals and to identify the determinants of its mental dimension.

Methods: A cross-sectional, bi-centric study was conducted within a representative sample of the 1,179 nurses assigned to 28 departments of two Tunisian public hospitals.

Preservation of poultry meat using essential oil during refrigerated storage.

Current study aims to evaluate the effect of essential oil on the conservation of chicken fillets. Following a screening, was selected for its antimicrobial ( ATCC 29212, MIC < 0.031 mg/mL) and antioxidant (IC = 1000 µg/mL) potentials with no cytotoxicity effect towards murine macrophage cells.

The management of pancreatic metastasis from synovial sarcoma of the soft tissue: A case report.

Pancreatic metastases are rare, accounting for 2%-3% of pancreatic tumors. The pancreas represents an unusual metastatic site of synovial sarcoma (SS) outside the usual localizations (regional nodes, lung, bone, and liver). The diagnosis is evoked by the personnel medical history of SS and imaging then confirmed by histological examination of the guided pancreatic biopsy.

Primary Paratesticular Leiomyosarcoma: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Paratesticular soft tissue sarcomas are very rare malignant mesenchymal tumors. With only few cases reported in the literature, data regarding diagnostic and management of these tumors are limited. We reported a case of primary paratesticular leiomyosarcoma in a 72-year-old man complaining of a progressively growing painless right scrotal mass.

Pure Ductal Carcinoma in Situ in The Male Breast: A Rare Entity.

Pure ductal carcinoma in situ of male breast (DCIS) is extremely rare. Only a few cases have been reported until now. Its treatment is not well established.

[Semi-quantitative ergonomic analysis of the biomechanical constraints within the cervical spine among screen-operators in the Tunisian universities].

Introduction: This study aims to evaluate the biomechanical constraints associated with neck pain among screen-operators.

Methods: We conducted an ergonomic study of 325 screen-operators in 25 Tunisian universities based on an anthropometric evaluation of on-screen work and on a semi-quantitative analysis of video recordings of the activities of employees over a representative period of 30 minutes.

Results: The prevalence of neck pain was 72.

Bilateral atrophic squirrhus of breast in neglected breast cancer: case report.

The atrophic squirrhus carcinoma is an advanced form of breast cancer, which is most often neglected by patients. These days it has become very rare. The bilaterality of this form is even more exceptional.