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Gastroenterol Clin Biol
March 2007
Service de chirurgie générale et digestive, Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite, Marseille.
Paragangliomas are rare tumors arising from extraadrenal chromaffin cells. These tumors are most commonly found in the adrenal gland but other locations are possible. A 79-year-old woman with abdominal pain underwent computed tomography (CT scan).
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May 2003
Servicios de Urología, Hospital Pediátrico Docente William Soler, La Habana, Cuba.
Objectives: To report one case of retroperitoneal fibrosarcoma in a 45 year-old caucasian patient cared for at the Public Health System hospitals in Republic of Cuba.
Methods: Blood analysis showed increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate and moderate anemia. Intravenous urography showed that left kidney was displaced towards midline but presented a good contrast uptake and excretion.
J Med Liban
June 2003
Service de Chirurgie Générale, Hôtel-Dieu de France, Faculté de Médecine, Université Saint-Joseph, Beyrouth, Liban.
Castelman's disease, an unusual condition of unknown cause, consisting of a massive proliferation of lymphoid tissue. Three histologic variants (hyaline vascular, plasma-cell, and mixed) and two clinical types (localized and multicentric) of Castelman's disease have been described. Localized disease can be cured with surgery or radiotherapy, but complete remission in patients with multicentric disease have been achieved only with prednisone or chemotherapy given at the time of diagnosis.
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October 2002
Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, España.
Objective: We report three cases of pelvic lipomatosis, and from them we discuss its diagnostic and therapeutic considerations.
Methods/results: Three patients, 71, 65 and 61 years old respectively, presented with irritative lower urinary tract symptoms. Intravenous pyelogram (IVP) and CT scan were performed as diagnostic procedures.
Actas Urol Esp
May 2002
Servicio de Urología, Hospital General de Albacete, Albacete.
Introduction: Extraadrenal pheochromocytomae represent 17-18% of pheochromocytomae, 85% of which are located infradiaphragmaticaly and generally wherever there is cromaffin tissue, as in this case, located at the organ of Zuckerkand. They can also appear in the context of family syndromes, i.e.
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