Subungual squamous cell carcinoma often presents with atypical clinical manifestations, which can lead to delays in diagnosis. The presence of a tumor can be masked by the presence of infections or other misleading pathological conditions. The authors report on techniques for adequate biopsy and excision of such tumors. A case of subungual squamous cell carcinoma with invasion into the underlyi...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is one of the most common female malignancies with high mortality rates in developing countries. Our purpose was to determine the prevalence of cervical cytological abnormalities by cervical cytology (CC) and the analysis of risk factors in Albanian population. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 5,416 conventional pap smear tests collected between January 2009 and Jan...

Intraglomerular metastasis is a rare manifestation of disseminated malignancies. We present here a case of intraglomerular metastatic carcinoma diagnosed as an incidental finding on a kidney biopsy in a 62-year-old male presenting with acute renal failure and metastatic penile squamous cell carcinoma. A proliferative lesion composed of highly atypical epithelial cells was found within a capilla...

Administration by stomach tube of 86-50 doses of 5 mg. of ~0-methylcholanthrene to Syrian golden hamsters resulted in the occurrence of squamous-cell tumors of the forestomach, adenocarcinomas of the small and large intestine, adenocarcinomas of the mammary glands, thecomas of the ovaries, and sebaceous tumors of the skin and ear duct glands. Of these types of tumors, only a few squamous-cell p...

New data have emerged since publication of the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology's 2001 consensus guidelines for management of abnormal cervical cytology and histology. The 2006 guidelines include recommendations for special populations (i.e., adolescents and pregnant women). Human papillomavirus testing is now included for management of atypical glandular cytology, for fol...

Subungual squamous cell carcinoma is a rare condition, and its diagnosis is often late. The clinical presentation is atypical and simulates other benign conditions, such as verruca vulgaris, onychomycosis and trauma-induced nail dystrophy. Although it is an unusual entity, we should be attentive to its early diagnosis, considering the biopsy in the chronic nail lesions refractory to treatments....

Synchronous ovarian and uterine cervix malignancies are extremely rare gynecologic neoplasia. In the meantime the presence of hepatic metastases originating from cervical cancer is another rare situation, the liver being more often a common site of metastases for ovarian malignancies. We present the case of a 63-year-old patient who was diagnosed with a moderately differentiated squamous cell c...

Background & Objective: Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) is considered to be one of the most common cancers of the head and neck, accounting for roughly 90% of all malignant tumors of the larynx. To have a timely diagnosis for a better and practical therapy, molecular markers have to be investigated. The aim of this study was to determine the expression of Cyclin D1 (CD...