We describe the case of an adult patient with a mediastinal ganglioneuroma as a finding in the pathological study and compare its biological behavior with literature findings. A histopathological diagnosis of ganglioneuroma is made possible in the presence of adequate characteristic macroscopic and microscopic variables; nevertheless our case differs with some conventional findings, which made diagnosis during surgery cumbersome. We carried out a literature search to look beyond conventional findings that would enable us to understand its impact on the tumor's biological behavior.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) is an uncommon idiopathic, benign histiocytic lesion. It generally involves the cervical lymph nodes and, less often the extranodal sites. Involvement of the breast is rare, with about 18 cases reported in the English literature to date.
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