Cysts of the Epididymis

Cysts of the Epididymis.

Xanthogranuloma of the epididymis

Solid epididymal masses can be broadly classified into three categories: inflammatory mass, benign neoplasm, and malignant neoplasm. Examples of inflammatory processes include infectious epididymitis, fibrosis, sperm granuloma, and autoimmune disease. Benign neoplasms include adenomatoid tumor or leiomyoma. Malignant neoplasms include adenocarcinoma, embryonic rhabdomyosarcoma, and seminoma. Wh...

Malacoplakia of the Epididymis

Malacoplakia is a chronic inflammatory disease. The disease mainly affects the urinary bladder, although involvement of extravesical sites is increasingly being documented. Most frequently involved is the urinary tract, particularly the urinary bladder, although the testis, epididymis, lungs, bone, colon, prostate, female genital organs, and retroperitoneum can also be involved. Here we report ...

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...

Epidermal inclusion cysts of the breast

AbstractEpidermal inclusion cysts are uncommon in the breast, but the consequences can besevere when these cysts occur in the breast parenchyma. Here, we report two suchcases. The patient in case 1 was an 37-year-old woman with a 3-cm palpable mass inthe right breast. Mammography revealed a round and smoothly outlined mass, whichindicated a benign tumor, and sonography showed an irregularly sha...