This is a case report of 52-year-old healthy male who was found two liver nodules in the right lobe during routine checkup. The physical examinations and laboratory investigations were unremanable. Core biopsy of the liver was done and the diagnosis of metastatic adenocarcinoma was suggested without a definite primary lesion. Since cholangiocarcinoma was suspected, subsegmently, partial hepatec...

We read with interest the letter sent by Yoon et al (1) about transarterial embolization of a cervicofacial hemangioma associated with Kasabach–Merritt (KM) syndrome in a premature neonate. There are some facets of the letter that warrant further comments, namely the association of the KM phenomenon with vascular tumors and the use of proper consensus-approved terminology adopted by the Interna...

A 51-year-old female presented to the emergency department complaining of left-sided, nonpleuritic chest pain and a 10-lb. weight loss over the previous 2 months. She was a current smoker with a 20 pack-year history. A PA/lateral chest radiograph and chest computed tomogram (CT) demonstrated a large loculated effusion with pleural thickening (Fig. 1). There were no lung nodules or pathologic me...

Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) had been a rare and unusual vascular tumor until a recent epidemic of a disseminated and fulminant form of KS in AIDS patients. Infectious agents have been suspected of causing KS, and recently partial genomic DNA sequences of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) have been identified in AIDS-associated KS lesions. Since then, genomic DNA sequences of HHV8 have been isolated in other...

Epithelioid hemangioendotheliomas are rare vascular tumors, often arising from medium to large veins in the extremities. Symptoms of these tumors vary depending upon location. Rarely, tumors may arise in chest and involve large vessels in the mediastinum. We present a case of a 17-year-old male presenting with compressive symptoms of the left upper extremity who was found to have a large epithe...