We report the case history of an external thoracic wall lipoma, which was noticed incidentally on a chest roentgenogram because of its calcification. A probable diagnosis was made by computer tomography. Because of the increase in size of the tumour it was removed surgically, but no evidence of malignant degeneration was found.

We report two cases of vertebral osteochondroma. In one patient a solitary cervical lesion presented as entrapment neuropathy of the ulnar nerve and in the other as a thoracic tumour associated with hereditary multiple exostoses producing paraplegia. We highlight the importance of an adequate preoperative evaluation in such patients.

A 21 year old Chinese female was found to have a thoracic tumour on routine chest radiography. At operation, the tumour was observed to arise from the left sixth rib and was adherent to the underlying pleura. It was excised with the rib. Histological sections showed a lesion composed of foci of cartilage al ternat ing with sheets of malignant spindle cells. In areas , a marked haemangiopericyto...

IT iS over a century ago since Thomanas Hodgkini described a conidition characterised by "morbid appearances of the absorbent glands and(I spleen." Subsequently, it-was found that Hodgkin hadl really groupc(l together a niumber of diilerenit diseases with similar gross appearances. From this group Kundrat separated off aind(define(d the conditioni knowNvn as lymphosarconma in 1893. Lymphosarcom...

A 41-year old non-smoking woman presented with persistent pleural effusion. Pleural fluid was hemorrhagic and fluid cytology was negative for malignant cells. A working diagnosis of chronic haemothorax was made and standard right thoracotomy was performed to identify the source of bleeding. A 10 x 10 cms poorly circumscribed mass containing blood clots, altered blood, fibrous tissue, and gelati...

Introduction: Fibrolipoma, a subtype of lipoma is painless, well-circumscribed, slow-growing, submucosal benign adipocyte tumour. It is uncommon in the oral cavity and oropharyngeal region, with rare incidence in the retropharynx even rarest in pediatric age group.   Case Report: A very unusual case of fibrolipoma is presented in a pediatric patient, who had a huge retropharyngeal fibrolipoma a...

A chordoma which occurs as a primary tumour outside the axial skeleton is known as an extra-axial chordoma, parachordoma or chordoma periphericum. It is extremely rare and therefore survival, recurrence and the rates of metastasis are not known. Whilst few recurrences have been described, the extra-axial chordoma has the potential for late recurrence at up to 12 years. Metastases are even less ...

The fact that growth and spread of tumours are dependent on angiogenesis has led to the investigation of the role of anti-angiogenic agents in the therapeutic strategies for thoracic tumours such as nonsmall cell lung cancer or mesotheliomas. Since various angiogenic factors may contribute to the regulation of angiogenesis in the individual tumour, in the era of increasing amounts of clinically...