Here we report the case of a 60-year-old patient previously affected by prostate cancer treated with prostatectomy. After surgery, the patient was scheduled for routine follow up examinations including biochemical and imaging evaluations. PSA testing evidenced a light, continuous increase in the course of the last four sampling. This finding calls for a biochemical recurrence. Thus the patient ...

This paper describes the results of transproctoscopic fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of rectal lesions. Fifty one consecutive patients referred with a presumptive diagnosis of rectal mass were subjected to proctoscopic examination when fine needle aspiration cytology, brush cytology and biopsy samples were taken. Of the 30 patients of malignancy of rectum in whom all the three...

A 58-year-old man with a history of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma status post liver and kidney transplantation, coronary artery disease, and ventricular arrhythmia status post ICD placement underwent an outpatient fine-needle aspiration biopsy of a pulmonary nodule under computed tomography (CT) guidance at an outside hospital (Figure 1). After the procedure, the patient was noted to h...

In India, pulmonary tuberculosis accounts for 85% of cases and extrapulmonary tuberculosis accounts for 15% of cases with bone and joint involvement is seen in 1 to 3% of cases. Primary tuberculous osteomyelitis of the sternum is a rare form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. A 51-year-old male presented with 10 years history of swelling over the anterior chest wall and pain for past 6 months. Fin...

the most common metastatic sites for colorectal carcinomas include the liver, lungs, brain, bones and peritoneal surfaces. in this report, a case of sigmoid colon carcinoma presented with cervical lymphadenopathy was detected with the help of pet/ct. a 57 year-old male presented with a complaint of swelling on the left side of his neck. ultrasonographic examination of the neck revealed three hy...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary tularaemia is a very rare disease with only a small number of cases described in the literature. So far, to our knowledge, there exists no case report of pulmonary tularaemia where PET-CT scans and follow up CT scans are available. CASE PRESENTATION We present four consecutive cases of pulmonary tularaemia. All patients suffered from non-specific symptoms. All patients we...

background and aims. cone-beam computed tomography (cbct) is an imaging system which has many advantages over computed tomography (ct). in ct scan, hounsfield unit (hu) is proportional to the degree of x-ray attenuation by the tissue. in cbct, the degree of x-ray attenuation is shown by gray scale (voxel value). the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between gray scale...

Mr. A, a 50-year-old English-speaking Korean man, presented to the hospital with right scapular pain. CT of the chest showed two masses, and a CT-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy study revealed poorly differentiated non-smallcell carcinoma of the lung. MRI of the brain, with and without gadolinium, showed neither a mass lesion nor abnormal enhancement suggestive of metastatic disease.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Diagnostic test accuracy studies for ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration and ultrasonography-guided core needle biopsy have shown inconclusive results due to their heterogenous study designs. Our aim was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration versus ultrasonography-guided core needle biopsy for detecting malignant tum...

Mucormycosis is a fatal and life threatening infection particularly in immunocompromised patients, so early diagnosis and rapid treatment is life saving. A 52-year-old female, known case of diabetes mellitus, presented with chills, fever, fatigue and anorexia. A subcutaneous mass was detected around the umbilicus (4x4). Fine needle aspiration of the mass showed mucor hyphea with little infl...