ADRENAL GANGLIONEUROMA IN AN ADULT CASE REPORT Joško Petri evi , Davor Librenjak, Snježana Tomi , Nikica Šutalo & Ante Bošnjak Department of Pathology, Cytology and Forensic medicine, University Clinical Hospital Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina Department of Surgery, Clinical Hospital Center Split, Split, Croatia Department of Pathology, Forensic medicine and Cytology, Clinical Hospital ...

BACKGROUND Mucosal Schwann-cell hamartoma is a rare mesenchymal polyp that presents in the intestine. Despite lacking ganglion cells, it resembles a gastrointestinal ganglioneuroma. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of synchronous mucosal Schwann-cell hamartomas in a young male patient, who presented with a single discrete polyp in the mid-rectum and multiple polypoid mucosal lesions in the ...

A case of jejunal gangliocytic paraganglioma is reported in a 54 year old woman who presented with brisk melaena. The tumour was not encapsulated, involved the mucosa and submucosa, and was composed of epithelial nests, spindle cells, and ganglion cells. These cells were mixed, giving carcinoid-like, paraganglioma-like, and ganglioneuroma-like patterns in different areas of the tumour. The lesi...

Ganglioneuromas are rare tumors in the neuroblastoma group. Paraneoplastic syndrome (PNS) due to presacral ganglioneuromas was hardly reported in previous literature. Here, we reported that a case of a 5-year-old girl with a presacral ganglioneuroma presented with PNS, who presented with intermittent fever, progressive weight gain, and personality changes. Our report revealed intermittent fever...

Benign tumors of the mediastinum may on occasion reach massive proportions. Previous reports on mediastinal tumors made by Clagett and others include a fibroma weighing over 4000 gm successfully removed, and a lipoma (autopsy specimen) of 12,000 gm. Ganglioneuroma of the mediastinum is a rare lesion and is almost always posterior in origin. Three of 71 cases reviewed by Kent and Blades were in ...

Ganglioneuromas are benign tumors. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice with very good prognosis. However, neuroblastomatous malignant transformation of ganglioneuromas was previously reported. We report a patient with spinal neuroblastoma recurrent from a ganglioneuroblastoma after disease free survival of 13 years. This is one of the rare examples of spinal neuroblastoma and to our kn...

A 62-year-old man presented to his general practitioner complaining of non-specific back pain. He underwent a computerized tomography scan and magnetic resonance imaging that revealed a large left adrenal mass. A thorough investigation of this mass revealed it to be a non-secreting tumor. At surgery, a large tumor of the left adrenal was found. The final pathology report revealed a ganglioneuro...