Presenting as a painless abdominal mass

Congenital Anaplastic Rhabdomyosarcoma Presenting As Abdominal Wall Mass

Rhabdomyosarcoma encompasses a group of malignant myogenic neoplasms expressing a multitude of clinical and pathological diversities. It is the commonest soft tissue sarcoma of childhood but neonates are rarely affected. Embryonal subtype is the most frequent. Head-neck and genitourinary tracts are predominant sites, while trunk is considered among the unusual sites of rhabdomyosarcoma. Herein ...

Reactive Nodular Fibrous Pseudotumor Presenting as a Huge Intraabdominal Mass after Abdominal Surgery: a Case Report

Although the majority of mesenchymal lesions of the gastrointestinal tract are neoplastic in nature, but nonneoplastic reactive processes may also involve the gastrointestinal tract and mesentery. Some more aggressive neoplasms located in same area, such as fibromatosis or gastrointestinal stromal  tumors  may  be  cause  of  diagnostic  confusion.  Reactive  nodular  fibrous  pseudo  tumor (RN...

Castleman’s Disease Presenting as an Abdominal Mass

Castleman Disease Presenting as an Abdominal Mass

Unicentric Castleman disease is a rare condition of lymphoid hyperplasia, of which only 15% of cases occur in the abdomen. We report a 66-year-old man who presented with complaints of abdominal pain. Computed tomography scans revealed nephrolithiasis and a homogeneous calcified mass between the pancreas and stomach and several para-pancreatic nodes. Direct visualization during exploratory lapar...

Neurofibromatosis presenting as painless clitoromegaly.

Received June 2008 Accepted September 2008 INTRODUCTION Neurofibromatosis is an autosomal dominant progressive disorder with an incidence of approximately 1 in 3000 live births.(1) Its recognized features include hyperpigmented skin lesions (cafe-au-lait spots), neurofibromas, iris hamartomas, macrocephaly, central nervous system tumors, defects of the skull and facial bones, and vascular lesio...