ABSTRACT
Os autores relatam um caso raro de obstrução urinária aguda por rabdomiossarcoma pélvico envolvendo a próstata em uma criança de quatro anos e seis meses de idade. São comentados as características desses tumores, as formas de apresentação clínica, os aspectos diagnósticos por imagem ultra-som, cistografia e tomografia computadorizada , o tratamento com poliquimioterapia e o prognóstico.
The authors report a rare case of acute urinary obstruction caused by pelvic rhabdomyosarcoma in a 4-year-old children. The diagnosis aspects for imaging e some therapeutic considerations are related.
Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Child, Preschool , Dactinomycin/therapeutic use , Dimethoate/therapeutic use , Pelvic Neoplasms/complications , Pelvic Neoplasms/drug therapy , Rhabdomyosarcoma/complications , Rhabdomyosarcoma/drug therapy , Urinary Retention/etiology , Vincristine/therapeutic useABSTRACT
A case of parasitic thyroid nodule is presented. The patient was a non symptomatic 53-year-old white woman, on irregular course of L-thyroxine to treat hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Without a history of thyroid trauma or surgery, she presented a 1.6 x 0.7 x 0.5cm right pre-laryngeal lymph node-like mass which, on ultrasonography, appeared distinct from the gland. TSH, thyroid peroxidase antibody and thyroglobulin antibody serum levels were elevated and T4-free level was normal. Thyroid and total body 99mTc isonitrile scintiscan showed a topic thyroid without radionuclide uptake in the nodule. Fine-needle aspiration of the nodule showed epithelial cells with nuclear atypia and oncocytic changes plus intense lymphoid infiltration and germinative center formation, simulating lymph node metastasis of papillary thyroid carcinoma. Conventional biopsy revealed a parasitic thyroid nodule with Hashimoto's chronic thyroiditis. Parasitic thyroid nodule must always be remembered so that unnecessary surgical assessment and undesirable sequels may be avoided