ABSTRACT
A rare case of mesenteric panniculitis occurring in a young patient and presenting as a huge retroperitoneal mass which was mistaken for malignancy, has been described.
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Adult , Diagnosis, Differential , Diagnostic Errors , Humans , Male , Panniculitis, Peritoneal/diagnosis , Retroperitoneal Neoplasms/diagnosis , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
Two perinatal autopsy cases are reported where a rare congenital anomaly, namely pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum in association with tricuspid stenosis and a hypoplastic right ventricle was encountered.
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Cardiomegaly/complications , Fatal Outcome , Heart Atria/abnormalities , Heart Defects, Congenital/complications , Heart Ventricles/abnormalities , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Male , Pulmonary Atresia/complications , Tricuspid Valve Stenosis/complicationsABSTRACT
Gastric teratoma is an extremely rare tumour. We report a gastric teratoma in a four month old male infant who presented with a large abdominal mass. There is no evidence of recurrence 1 1/2 years after the tumour was excised. Our case is an addition to the few cases reported in the World literature.
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Humans , Infant , Male , Stomach Neoplasms/surgery , Teratoma/surgeryABSTRACT
A total of 24 cases of metastatic bone tumours were encountered over the last 6 years. Majority of these lesions (70.8%) were found in the 4th to 6th decades of life with a slight male preponderance. The axial skeleton was involved in majority of the cases (62.5%), the spine being the commonest site of tumour metastasis. A large proportion of the metastatic bone tumours were adenocarcinomas (62.5%) and the lung was the commonest primary site followed by the breast and large intestine. In 41.7% of the patients the bone metastasis was the initial manifestation of the malignant disease which was subsequently detected after investigations. In 20.8% of the cases the primary tumour remained undetected even after through investigations.
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Adult , Aged , Bone Neoplasms/pathology , Breast Neoplasms/diagnosis , Carcinoma/pathology , Female , Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/diagnosis , Humans , Liver Neoplasms/diagnosis , Lung Neoplasms/diagnosis , Male , Middle Aged , Neoplasms, Unknown Primary/diagnosis , Urologic Neoplasms/diagnosisSubject(s)
Adrenal Gland Diseases/etiology , Calcinosis/etiology , Consanguinity , Humans , India , Infant, Newborn , Liver/pathology , Male , Wolman Disease/complicationsABSTRACT
We report an unusual case of a 23 year old female who presented with symptoms of spinal cord compression by an extradural metastasis from a gestational choriocarcinoma. She gave the history of evacuation of a hydatidiform mole five months prior to presentation, following which she had been totally asymptomatic and had not attended any follow-up. She responded to conventional chemotherapy.