Teratoma is a common tumour of the mediastinum but is rarely found in the lung. The twentieth reported case was published in 1975 by Day and Taylor and four cases have been published since.'-5 A rare condition, not previously recorded, was observed by us in a young male patient. He was found to have a mediastinal teratoma, which was followed 10 years later by the growth of an intrapulmonary ter...

Goel S, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220677 Description A 30-year-old man presented with right scrotal mass and bilateral leg oedema for the last 3 months. CT scan showed a heterogeneously enhancing lesion in the right testis with retroperitoneal and mediastinal lymph node (LN) mass with enhancing tumorous thrombus filling the common iliac veins and inferior vena cava (IVC) up...

Conventional prostate adenocarcinomas consist mainly of tumour cells of luminal immunophenotype with scattered neuroendocrine (NE) cells. NE cells are defined by chromogranin A (CGA) immunoreactivity. Unlike luminal cells, NE cells lack androgen receptor (AR) and prostate specific antigen (PSA) immunoreactivity. This report describes the first case of conventional prostate adenocarcinoma expres...

Mucinous carcinoma of the lung, also known as colloid carcinoma, is an uncommon tumour that is rarely encountered in fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytological practice. A 64-year-old Chinese male presenting with blood stained sputum and hoarseness of voice was discovered to have a 3 cm sized mass in the left lung. Neither bronchial washings nor transthoracic FNA yielded positive results at this ...

A 33 year old man presented with a short history of slight fever and chest pain that was worse on inspiration. An electrocardiogram was consistent with pericarditis. Chest radiography, echocardiography, and computed tomography suggested the presence of a mediastinal tumour. At operation the mass was found to be attached to the right sinus of Valsalva and proved to be a large saccular aneurysm f...

Neuropathy of the mental nerve is a rare condition that demands accurate differential diagnosis. A 69-year-old male experienced progressive hypoaesthesia of the right side of the corner of the mouth and chin, associated with intermittent phases of pain. Plain radiographs and computerised tomography (CT) scans revealed the mental foramen on the top of the toothless mandible and a symmetrically d...