A 64-year-old woman with primary synovial sarcoma of the abdominal wall.

Synovial sarcoma (SS) usually affects joints, bursae, and tendons of extremities and is very infrequent in the head and neck, abdomen, thorax, prostate and kidney, skin, blood vessels, and nerves. Primary intra-abdominal SS is exceeding uncommon and has non-specific symptoms or compress surrounding structures. The diagnosis is a challenge, and histopathological and immunohistochemical studies must confirm the hypothesis.

Thoracic duct lymphangioma and chylous ascites in a 24-year-old female.

Lymphangiomas are rare and correspond to 0.7% to 4.0% of mediastinal tumors, and isolated mediastinal location occurs in 1% of cases.

Chilaiditi's and Ogilvie syndromes.

We read the interesting case study of interposition of the colon between the liver and the right diaphragm (Chilaiditi's sign) that was recently reported by Ruiz Pardo et al. in a 73-year-old male with epigastric pain, ectopic cholecystitis and segmental hepatic hypoplasia. The condition was managed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy with an uneventful outcome.

A Brazilian male with typical oral and pulmonary paracoccidioidomycosis.

An autochthonous case of paracoccidioidomycosis was reported in a city of north Iran. This condition is a well-known endemic fungal infection highly prevalent in Latin American countries, with an incidence of 1 to 3.7 cases per 100.