Cranial fasciitis is an uncommon benign fibroblastic tumor, generally histologically identical to nodular fasciitis. It develops almost exclusively in children. Cranial fasciitis manifests clinically as a painless rapidly growing solitary nodule in the head and neck area, frequently eroding the underlying bone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLaryngeal papillomatosis (LP) is the most common benign neoplasm affecting the upper respiratory tract mucosa in children. The most common genotypes of HPV associated with LP are types 6 and 11. : Among 187 patients identified in our institution with LP, four cases showed malignant transformation to invasive squamous carcinoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is unclear if lymph node sampling in Wilms tumour, though critical for staging purposes, affects survival outcomes. The value of lymph node sampling in patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is even more uncertain. We reviewed our institutional data to determine the impact of lymph node sampling on survival, as well as its role in the context of NAC.
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