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Calcifying fibrous pseudotumor has recently been described in the soft tissues. It is a rare benign lesion characterized by the presence of abundant hyalinized collagen with psammomatous or dystrophic calcifications and lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate. We report a case of a young woman with a mediastinal mass treated by a complete resection. The mass had all the pathologic features of calcifying f...

INTRA-EPITHELIAL EPITHELIOMATA may present to the ophthalmologist on the cornea, conjunctiva or eyelids, generally of elderly men. Here they form vascularized elevated plaques, that look rather gelatinous or granulomatous, and they most often arise in sites of chronic infection, as after burns or pannus. Years later they tend to break through the basement layer of the epithelium and finally yie...

Epithelioma, arising on skin surfaces, other than the neighbourhood of mucous membrane, is of rather rare occurrence in England. But in Kashmir the commonest seat of epithelioraata is the skin of the thigh and the abdomen. The cause of this is not far to seek. During the severe winters and indeed for a great part of the year, every Kashmiri man, woman or child carries a portable charcoal brazie...