An ectopic thyroid is a form of thyroid dysgenesis in which an entire or parts of the thyroid gland may be located in another part of the body than what is the usual place. The most frequent location is the base of tongue. Although most cases are asymptomatic, symptoms related to tumor size and its relationship with surrounding tissues, hormonal dysfunction and seldom malignancy may also occur....

Rhabdomyoma is a benign tumor that comes from skeletal tissue, it classified as cardiac and extracardiac according to the location. Extracardiac rhabdomyomas most frequently originate in head neck at larynx pharynx, being parapharyngeal space an exceptional We present clinical case of 86-year-old man asymptomatic patient with laterocervical mass years evolution, has increased its size progressi...

We report a patient who was admitted to the department of medicine with palpitation, dyspnea and left flank pain, Chest X-ray revealed a mass in the left lung. The lesion was evaluated as a pulmonary tumor, with a high suspicion of malignancy. Intravenous urography, sonography, and CTscanning revealed a thoracic kidney at the location previously thought to be a lung mass. This is the firs...

Giant cell tumor is a locally aggressive benign tumor. Giant cell tumor of bone is characteristically found in skeletally mature patient at the end of long bones in the epiphyseal region or epiphysio-metaphyseal region. Giant cell tumor is very rare in skeletally immature patient. But we are presenting a very rare case of giant cell tumor in skeletally immature patient in diaphyseal region whic...

Sinonasal inverted papilloma is a benign neoplasm of epithelial origin, which represents 0.5 to 4% of all sinonasal tumors. Despite the histological benign nature of this type of tumor, it has a high rate of recurrence after surgical resection and significant malignant potential. Sinonasal inverted papilloma is treated as a locally aggressive tumor. The aggressive surgical approaches, such as e...

BACKGROUND To compare preoperative CT/MRI based predictions with real surgical findings for deep lobe parotid gland surgery. METHODS The study analyzed 122 parotidectomies (2004-2014) for benign tumor removal. The facial nerve, the Utrecht line, the Conn's arc, and the retromandibular vein were used as landmarks for CT/MRI presurgical evaluation of patients. We assessed 106 CT images and 86 M...

PURPOSE To evaluate the role of breast tumor location on survival in patients with breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS We evaluated tumor location within the breast on breast cancer-specific survival (BCSS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with invasive breast cancer using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results (SEER) registries in the United States. Effects on survival were eva...