Cerebellar Tumour Simulating Pyloric Obstruction

Gastric outlet obstruction caused by a pyloric submucosal fibroepithelial tumour

A 57 year old male patient presented to our hospital with vomiting, epigastric discomfort, and loss of appetite over a 24hr period. Subsequent investigations demonstrated a submucosal lesion causing gastric outlet obstruction. The patients deteriorating condition mandated laparotomy and a pathologic diagnosis was made of a pyloric submucosal fibroepithelial lesion from the resected distal stoma...

A Case of Pyloric Obstruction

Pyloric obstruction due to gastric tuberculosis

A 22 year old male presented with symptoms of gastric outlet obstruction. Endoscopy showed a hypertrophic nodular lesion around the pyloric opening with pyloric stenosis. The endoscopic biopsy and histopathological examination revealed tuberculosis involving the stomach, an extremely rare lesion.

Tumour Simulating Spina Bifida

The patient enjoyed excellent health from his childhood up to the age of 21, when he felt a peculiar sensation of heat and burning over his waist. On rubbing his finger over the part, he felt the skin a little raised. The pain and the swelling lasted for a fortnight or so when it was cured by a hakim of his place. Three months after the alleged cure, he noticed a fluctuating tumour about the si...

Cerebellar cryptococcoma simulating metastatic neoplasm.

MD, Neurosurgeon, Divisão de Neurocirurgia, Hospital Santa Teresa, Petrópolis RJ, Brazil; MD, Neurosurgeon, Serviço de Neurocirurgia, Hospital Público Municipal de Macaé, Macaé RJ, Brazil; MD, Neurosurgery Resident, Serviço de Neurocirurgia, Hospital Municipal Souza Aguiar, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil; MD, Pathologist, Hospital da Beneficência Portuguesa de Campos dos Goytacazes, Campos dos Goyta...