CONGENITAL ABSENCE OF PECTORAL MUSCLE : A CASE REPORT

Congenital absence of the pectoral muscles.

The four patients described in this paper exhibit congenital absence of the pectoral muscles in varying degree, and illustrate many points of interest. Three of them were observed during routine and special medical examinations of approximately 15,000 elementary school children, and one was a pre-school child in hospital: it is interesting to note that Scheslinger, according to Rector', discove...

An accessory muscle of pectoral region: a case report.

Among the variations of pectoral muscles, this case appears to be unique in the literature. This was a case of an accessory pectoral muscle which was located between pectoralis major and pectoralis minor muscles, which was discovered during a routine anatomy dissection. The accessory muscle originated from 6(th) and 7(th) ribs at costo-chondral junction, which travelled supero-laterally and ins...

Congenital Hemangiopericytoma: A Case Report

Hemangiopericytoma is a rare vascular tumor observed mostly in adults. It usually presents with a painless slowly enlarging mass. The infantile type with much rarer occurrence has a different course compared to adults. Very few case reports have been described in the literature with disease onset in the infancy. The first reported case of infantile hemangiopericytoma of limbs from the Middle ...

Congenital Leukemia: A Case Report

CONGENITAL TRICHOFOLLICULOMA: A CASE REPORT