Porocarcinoma is a rare skin malignancy that should be suspected in patients with chronic skin lesions. Although it usually affects the elderly population in sun-exposed areas, it may be seen in younger populations and in nonexposed areas such as the groin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMetastatic laryngeal cancer is a rare entity, usually indicating an advanced disease once discovered. In this report, we are describing a case of a 60-year-old male patient with stage IV colorectal cancer (CRC), who presented to our clinic with dysphonia; further workups showed metastatic CRC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/aim This study sought to explore the possible yield of pathology requests on tissue obtained in uterine evacuation for secondary postpartum hemorrhage (SPPH) at our institution over five years. Material and methods A content categorization of histological reports on endo-uterine tissue obtained from patients with secondary postpartum hemorrhage was undertaken. The aggregate tissue dimensions were also recorded.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Lumbar Spine Chondrosarcomas are rare entities that accounts for less than 10% of all spinal Chondrosarcomas, patients can present with symptoms of nerve root irritation secondary to direct compression caused by the tumor mass effect. Radiologically these tumors are destructive in nature with soft tissues classifications, and the treatment of choice for it is complete surgical excision, however in some scenarios they are difficult to access and complete resection becomes not feasible.
Presentation Of Case: A 37 years old male, presented to our spine clinic with chief complaint of chronic low back pain with radicular symptoms, normal power in both lower limbs, while his radiological evaluation showed intra-spinal extra-dural Chondrosarcoma arising from the posterior cortex of the 5th vertebral body, for which he underwent surgical decompression of the lumbar canal with resection of the lesion and unilateral stabilization of the spinal segment.
Periodic chest pain, with bloody pleural effusion should raise the suspicion of pleural endometriosis as a well-known, but a rare condition in clinical practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRhinosporidiosis is a chronic granulomatous infectious disease that predominantly affects the mucosal membranes of the nose and nasopharynx. The disease is caused by Rhinosporidium seeberi, an eukaryotic pathogen with distinct geographical distribution particularly in tropical and subtropical areas acquired mainly through aquatic exposure. We report a case of a young Nepalese male who presented with recurrent right nasopharyngeal mass where surgical excision and histopathological examination confirmed the diagnosis following distinct pathognomonic findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCutaneous metastases of choriocarcinoma are rare. They may indicate poor prognosis and resistance to chemotherapy. In this report, we present a case of a 25-year-old man who presented with central pleuritic chest pain and right upper arm mass for about a week.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndometrial carcinoma has been traditionally divided into type 1 or endometrioid type that is usually moderate to well differentiated and type 2 that is usually poorly differentiated with high histologic grade and aggressive clinical behavior. However, interobserver diagnostic agreement is suboptimal, particularly among the high-grade histotypes. Furthermore, recent data indicate that this histotype assignment does not independently correlate with survival.
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January 2013
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an autosomal dominant multisystem disorder caused by mutations in either of the two genes, TSC1 or TSC2, which code for the proteins hamartin and tuberin, respectively. These proteins act as tumour-growth suppressors with mutations in their genes leading to multiple hamartomatous growths throughout the central nervous system, lungs, heart, kidneys, eyes and skin. There have been reports of patients with TSC having an increased incidence of cardiac neoplasms, especially rhabdomyomas.
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