Lipoma is a benign soft tissue tumor, composed of mature fat cells. It represents by far the most common benign mesenchymal neoplasm which can occur throughout the whole body, but it rarely originates in the abdominal wall. Due to its rare etiologic origin and obscure cause of development, we herby report on a case of a lipoma in a 45-year-old male who presented with chronic left flank pain tha...

Lipoblastoma is a rare benign soft-tissue neoplasm that occurs most commonly in children less than 3 year of age. We present a case of left suprascapular lipoblastoma in an 11-month-old boy which grew into the thorax and was approached by thoracoscopy. In this case thoracoscopic approach was the best option to reach the intrathoracic component of the mass in the apex of the left side of the chest.

Glomus tumor is a rare, benign neoplasm rising from the glomus apparatus of the skin. It occurs most frequently on fingers and toes and accounts for 1.6% of all soft tissue tumors. Clinical diagnosis may prove difficult if the tumor occurs on an extra digital location. We report a case of a vascular-type glomus tumor (glomangioma) found in an atypical location, namely the lateral aspect of the ...

A 44-year-old eastern European woman presented to the tuberculosis (TB) service after she had a pre-employment TB screening chest radiograph. The frontal anteroposterior (AP) chest radiograph demonstrated a soft-tissue opacity projected over the lateral aspect of the right hemithorax, with poorly defined lateral margins (Fig 1a). The ancillary lateral chest radiograph demonstrated a welldefined...

tissue-engineered gingival graft was used for regenerating facial gingiva around an implant at lower left first premolar area with insufficient attached gingiva. engineered gingival graft was produced by mixing 250 ml bovine skin collagen with 250 ml nutritional medium containing human gingival fibroblasts (2×105). 3 months post-surgery, there were gains in the attached gingiva compared to pre-...

A myolipoma is an extremely rare benign neoplasm, occurring most frequently in adults in the deep soft tissue of the abdomen or retroperitoneum. We experienced a case of an anal myolipoma occurring in a 30-year-old woman, and it was surgically resected. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a myolipoma arising from the anus, so such a possibility needs to be considered in the dif...

Introduction Soft tissue enhancement is the most important characteristic diagnostic for a renal neoplasm. Postprocessing image subtraction has been used successfully in MR in characterizing and evaluating enhancement of renal lesions. However, image noise is a potential pitfall in MR subtraction imaging. Our objective was to evaluate if there is a threshold signal-to-noise ratio of subtraction...

Background: Granular cell tumor (Abrikossoff’s tumor) is a rare and slow-growing tumor of the soft tissue. Originated from the Schwann cells, it is often a benign tumor, but it can be malignant in 1-3% of the cases. Malignant cases can cause significant morbidity and mortality. It may develop in many anatomic locations, especially in the head and neck region, and also in skin and subcutaneous t...