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A 40-year-old woman presented with a scalp swelling. A careful clinical examination revealed a left-sided deep-seated thyroid nodule. Fine needle aspiration from both sites disclosed a microfollicular architectural pattern on Giemsa stain and pale nuclei with nuclear grooves on Papanicolaou stain, indicating the possibility of follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma with metastasis to the scalp. Histologic tissue evaluation confirmed the diagnosis. Thus, a diligent search for nuclear features should be performed to enable a diagnosis of follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma on cytology. This helps in patient management obviating the need for a second surgical intervention.
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Adult , Biopsy, Fine-Needle , Female , Humans , Neoplasm Metastasis/pathology , Scalp/pathology , Skin Neoplasms/pathology , Thyroid Neoplasms/diagnosis , Thyroid Nodule/pathologyABSTRACT
Recurrent chondroblastoma with pulmonary and palatal metastasis is a rare occurrence. We report the cytological and histological findings of such a case in a 33 years old male, where the primary diagnosis of metastatic chondroblastoma was made on FNAC, which was later confirmed on histopathology. The present case highlights that, some chondroblastomas do exist, that are capable of pursuing a malignant course.
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Adult , Chondroblastoma/diagnosis , Humans , Lung/pathology , Lung Neoplasms/pathology , Male , Neoplasm Metastasis/diagnosis , Neoplasm Recurrence, Local , Palatal Neoplasms/pathology , Palate/pathologyABSTRACT
An unusual case of pulmonary clear cell carcinoid tumour in a fifteen year old boy is being described. The differential diagnoses considered in this case are described. This is one of the uncommon varieties of carcinoid of lung reported in the world literature.
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Adolescent , Carcinoid Tumor/diagnosis , Diagnosis, Differential , Humans , Lung Neoplasms/diagnosis , MaleABSTRACT
Total 457 patients attending different STD clinics of Calcutta were studied for serological tests for STD. TPHA positivity was maximum (18.60%), followed by chlamydia infection (15.97%), VDRL reactivity (8.98%), HIV infection (6.35%), and HBs Ag (3.72%). Total 37.20% samples were positive for one or more infection. Out of these, one, two, three and four tests positivity was seen in 65.29%, 25.88%, 8.24% and 0.59% respectively. The age group which had maximum infection (20.13%) was 15-30 years.