ABSTRACT
Parathyroid cysts are very uncommon lesions, with about 200 cases in the literature. Differential diagnosis is difficult, particularly with thyroid mass and symptoms of cervical compression and hyperparathyroidism are described. We present a case in which the diagnosis was intraoperative and discuss the treatment of this unusual disease.
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Cysts/diagnosis , Parathyroid Diseases/diagnosis , Adult , Cysts/surgery , Female , Humans , Parathyroid Diseases/surgeryABSTRACT
Cancer of the oral cavity are 4% of all cancers, being in 8th place in males and 11th in females. The world incidence in male sex is 7.9:100,000 and 2.2:100,000 in females. Squamous cell carcinoma is the most frequent, corresponding to 90-95% of the cases and tongue, lips and floor of the mouth are the most common sites. Fifty-four patients were surgically treated for cancer of the oral cavity in a General Hospital in São Paulo, during last ten years. It occurs more in males (81.5%), the age ranges of 35-97, with mean age of 58.1 years. Smoking was associated in 88.9%, at the time of treatment 50% of the patients had history of disease inferior of 6 months and 42% were T2 and 38% T4. These results agree with international literature and emphasize the importance of preventive aspects of this cancer.
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Mouth Neoplasms/epidemiology , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Brazil , Female , Hospitals, General , Humans , Incidence , Male , Middle Aged , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
A small fraction of solid mass in the head of the pancreas are inflammatory rather neoplastic in origin. The failure to recognize the true nature of a solid tumor in the head of pancreas may lead to an incorrect treatment strategy. This is a report of a patient with clinical history of pancreatic cancer which computed tomography showed a mass in the head of the pancreas with radiologic characteristics of malignancy. The patient underwent exploratory laparotomy with the finding of a mass in the head of the pancreas. The inflammatory palpable characteristic of the mass led to a intraoperative biopsy to confirm the preoperative diagnosis. With the benign result of the biopsy, the final diagnosis was duodenal ulcer which penetrates in the pancreatic parenchyma.
