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Neurofibromatosis or Von Recklinghausen's disease is a rare disease that affects the urogenital system in its visceral form. We report on one case where the patient had a recurring mass located in the vesicouterine space that caused irritative urinary symptoms, which was confirmed as uterine cervix neurofibroma following surgery and immunohistochemical study. We stress the importance of a wide resection of such tumors and the need for long-term follow-up due to the high recurrence index and the risk of malignant transformation.
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Adult , Female , Humans , Neurofibromatosis 1/complications , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/surgery , Immunohistochemistry , Neurofibromatosis 1/pathology , Recurrence , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/pathologyABSTRACT
Horseshoe kidney with pyelic fusion and crossed single ureter is a rare anomaly, with only 3 cases described in the literature. Such anomaly can be accompanied by other abnormalities, such as congenital scoliosis and situs inversus totalis. We present one case of this malformation associated with malignant neoplasia, treated with partial nephrectomy.
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Adult , Female , Humans , Kidney Neoplasms/complications , Kidney/abnormalities , Sarcoma, Clear Cell/complications , Ureter/abnormalities , Abnormalities, Multiple/etiology , Abnormalities, Multiple/surgery , Kidney Neoplasms/surgery , Kidney Pelvis/abnormalities , Kidney/surgery , Nephrectomy , Sarcoma, Clear Cell/surgery , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Treatment Outcome , Ureter/surgeryABSTRACT
Primary synovial sarcoma of the kidney is a rare tumor that is difficult to diagnose. We present one case that was not diagnosed through fine needle aspiration, requiring a morphologic and immunohistochemical analysis of the incision biopsy. Since the tumor was surgically unresectable, chemotherapy was employed previously to definitive radical surgery.
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Adult , Humans , Male , Kidney Neoplasms/pathology , Sarcoma, Synovial/pathology , Sarcoma/pathology , ImmunohistochemistryABSTRACT
Propusemo-nos verificar a freqüência de tireoidopatias em região endêmica de bócio colóide através de punção biópsia aspirativa com agulha fina (PBAAF). Foram avaliados os diagnósticos obtidos por este método em 1265 pacientes portadores de tireoidópatias difusas ou nodúlares tratados na cidade de Uberaba, Minas Gerais, no período de 1989 a 2000, correlacionando-os com o sexo e a idade. As tireoidopatias mais freqüentemente encontradas foram bócio colóide (54,38 por cento), tireoidite crônica de Hashimoto (22,70 Por cento) e tumor folicular (8,61 por cento), predominantemente no sexo feminino (92 por cento) e na faixa etária entre 30 e 60 anos (64,12 por cento). Em conclusão, além do predomínio de bócio colóide, a tireoidite crônica de Hashimoto apresentou incidência maior que aquelas relatadas em outras regiões endêmicas e não endêmicas de bócio e houve elevada freqüência de tumores foliculares, cerca de treze vezes mais freqüentes que o carcinoma papilífero.