Hind M Alkatan1*, Patricia Akaishi2,3 and Antonio AV Cruz2,3,4 1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 2Oculoplastics and Orbit Division, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 3Department of Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine of RibeirãoPreto–University of São Pa...

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castleman's disease is an uncommon cause of lymph node enlargement that mostly involves the mediastinum and lung hilum. it is divided into 2 types: localized, which is usually asymptomatic and presents with a mass lesion; and multicentric, which is characterized by chills, anemia, generalized lymphadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly. an extrathoracic site of involvement is very uncommon, and may ...

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Syringocystadenocarcinoma papilliferum is a rare form of adenocarcinoma of the skin. It is the malignant counterpart of syringocystadenoma papilliferum (SCAP). It usually develops on the scalp in a long-standing lesion identified clinically as SCAP. Twelve cases of syringocystadenocarcinoma papilliferum have been reported in literature, with limited information regarding its clinical and histol...

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Vol. 26 No. 3, 2014 403 Received August 29, 2012, Revised April 9, 2013, Accepted for publication May 31, 2013 Corresponding author: Dong-Youn Lee, Department of Dermatology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 81 Irwon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3410-3543, Fax: 82-2-3410-3869, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed...