Hemophilic Pseudotumor in the Jawbone: A Case Report and Literature Review

Hemophilic Pseudotumor: A Case Report and Review of Literature

A hemophilic pseudotumor is one of the rarer complications of hemophilia that results from repetitive bleeding resulting in an encapsulated mass of clotted blood and necrosed tissue. These have become rarer over the years with better treatment modalities for bleeding disorders like factor replacement. In this case report, we describe the natural history and clinical course of a patient with hem...

Intraabdominal hemophilic pseudotumor: case report.

Total femoral replacement for treatment of a massive femoral hemophilic pseudotumor: a case report and review of the literature

Hemophilic pseudotumor (HP) is a rare complication of hemophilia, which occurs in a wide spectrum of bones and soft tissues. A case of a massive femoral HP in a Chinese adult is reported. With adequate infusion clotting factor VIII replacement therapy in the perioperative period, the patient had a radical resection of HP and reconstruction with a custom total femoral prosthesis. The patient was...

An Inflammatory Pseudotumor in the Costo-Vertebral Gutter: Case Report with Literature Review

Background and Importance: Inflammatory pseudotumors are benign tumors-like lesions of unknown cause. The most familiar sites for inflammatory pseudotumors are the orbit and respiratory tract. An inflammatory pseudo tumor of costo-vertebral junction is rare. Case Presentation: We presented here a 50-year-old male with two month history of progressive left cervico-brachial pain. The MRI&nb...

MALAKOPLAKIA OF THE COLON: A CASE REPORT AND LITERATURE REVIEW

Malakoplakia is a rare disease with undefined etiology that has been almost exclusively reported in urology and pathology journals. We are presenting a case of colonic malakoplakia in an I8-year old young man who was referred to us with a four-year history of intermittent rectorrhagia. The pathological examination of the endoscopically resected specimen revealed pathognomonic features of ma...

HIV-associated pseudotumor cerebri: a case report and literature review.

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a cause of vision loss in HIV-positive patients. In many patients with controlled HIV disease, idiopathic intracranial hypertension develops without any other apparent cause. We report the case of an HIV-infected man in whom idiopathic intracranial hypertension developed, and despite therapy with repeated lumbar puncture, acetazolamide, and neurosurgical ...