A 50-year old Malay female presented with a painless upper abdominal mass of three years duration. She was feeling anorexic and lethargic for about six months. There was no history of vomiting and colonic symptoms were absent. Examination revealed a thin anaemic lady with an intraabdominal mass of 5 x 7.5 ems., to the right of midline around the transpyloric plane. It was mobile in the oblique ...

Accepted 12 December 1995 A 45-year-old woman presented with a left upper eyelid mass, first noticed five years earlier. The mass had been excised initially but recurred within nine months. For the last year, the patient had noticed a painless, progressively increasing swelling in the left parotid region. Examination revealed a 3 x 2 cm nontender mass in the left upper eyelid with conjunctival ...

tumor is an uncommon, benign solid tumor of the chest that mostly affects children. We present a 7-year-old body who suffered from cough. The chest radiograph and chest CT showed a rapid growing mass in left upper lobe. Based on histopathologic e x a m i n a t i o n , p u l m o n a r y i n f l a m m a t o r y myofibroblastic tumor was diagnosed; although rare, it is the most frequent primary lu...

A 43-year-old male was admitted to our hospital complaining of wheezing sound at respiration. He had received esophageal exclusion by left open thoracotomy, feeding gastrostomy and delayed cervical esophagogastrost-omy due to spontaneous rupture 1 year ago. Chest X-ray and CT revealed esophageal mucocele (Fig. 1). The mucocele along with the rest of the intrathoracic esophagus was resected via ...

An 84-year-old woman presented to our hospital with dyspnea on exertion and left back pain. Chest X-ray and chest computed tomography (CT) revealed an irregular pleural mass invading her left chest wall with rib destruction and pleural effusion. CT-guided needle biopsy revealed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Low-dose oral etoposide produced a complete response, and she continued oral chemothera...

conclusions performing the routine chest ct in high-energy blunt trauma patients (with a mean injury severity of 9), although leading to the diagnosis of some occult injuries, has no impact on the outcome and does not decrease the in-hospital stay and icu admission time. it seems that performing the routine chest ct in these patients may lead to overtreatment of nonsignificant injuries. the dec...

Introduction: Cauda equina secondary to metastatic follicular thyroid cancer of the lumbosacral area is a rare entity.   Case Report: We report an unusual case of a 52-year-old male who presented with backache, lower limb weakness, and perianal numbness. A CT-scan of the lumbosacral area showed an enhancing mass at the L4, L5 and S1 vertebrae. Histopathology after excision revealed a metast...