Renal tumours vary from a benign to highly malignant histology. Here we present a 54 yrs male with a heterogeneous large encapsulated cystic lesion in the right kidney upper pole showing areas of solid component and necrosis with no evidence of metastasis or paraneoplastic features. Post Right Radical Nephrectomy IHC, showed positive reaction for BCL-2, CD99 and vimentin, suggesting Primary Renal Synovial Sarcoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 38 year old hepatitis C and Hemophilia Type A patient presented with recurrent hematuria since 6 months. Investigations revealed a 5 cm lesion in the lateral wall of the bladder with perivesical fat stranding. PET CT showed a FDG avid lesion measuring 4 cms in the bladder with non FDG avid Iliac nodes.
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The Aim Of The Study: POSSUM scoring system was applied prospectively to determine how it performed in predicting morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing emergency laparotomy in our hospital, a group known to be at high risk of complications and death.
Material And Methods: A total of 100 cases of emergency laparotomies were studied in patients admitted in general surgery department during the period of May 2008 to August 2010.