Background: Primary spinal intramedullary lymphoma is a very rare lesion. It has not specific laboratory or radiologic findings. Therefore false and late diagnosis is frequent. Case Report and Literature Review: A 55 year-old lady with multifocal primary spinal intramedullary B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was reported. Review of literature yielded 45 cases with primary spinal intramedullary lym...

desmoplastic fibroma is a rare, locally aggressive, benign lesion. a case of desmoplastic fibroma of left side of mandible is reported. the lesion presented as painless mass in left posterior portion of mandible of a 7-year-old girl. histologically the lesion was composed of interlacing fascicles of benign appearing fibroblast in a varying ground substance of collagenous tissue. in this report,...

A high-NaCl diet induces renal medullary cyclooxygenase (COX)2 expression, and selective intramedullary infusion of a COX2 inhibitor increases blood pressure in rats on a high-salt diet. The present study characterized the specific prostanoid contributing to the antihypertensive effect of COX2. C57BL/6J mice placed on a high-NaCl diet exhibited increased medullary COX2 and microsomal prostaglan...

To cite: Psaras KKP, Triantos G, Papavassiliou T, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2012007943 DESCRIPTION A 72-years-old woman presented to the emergency department for evaluation of a large soft tissue mass (figure 1). X-ray film and ultrasound soft tissue of the left hip were carried out. On X-ray a large soft tissue mass was discovered (fi...

To the Editor, Adamantinoma is a low-grade, extremely rare primary malignant bone tumour suggested to be of epithelial lineage. These tumours commonly present at between 10 and 50 years of age and have a propensity for presentation in the tibia (approximately 90% cases), although they have been reported in various other bones (1). A 76-year-old male patient was referred to our unit from another...

The aim of this study was to describe the pattern of spinal cord injuries, MRI signal patterns and neurological impairment among spinal cord injury patients in Lagos, Nigeria. A retrospective study of the hospital records and MRI reports of 90 spinal cord injury patients at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital was conducted. The study included patients who presented at the hospital with spina...

OBJECTIVE AND IMPORTANCE Blood fluke infection or schistosomiasis affects up to 300 million people worldwide. Although infection of the hepatic and urogenital systems commonly occurs, central nervous system involvement is rare. When presenting in the spinal cord, schistosomiasis can be difficult to diagnose because it can present as mass lesion or transverse myelitis. We describe a patient with...

Chondrosarcoma is a malignant tumor that produces cartilage matrix, and lesions that arise de novo are called primary. Primary chondrosarcoma is the third most common primary malignant tumor of bone, constituting 20%–27% of all primary malignant osseous neoplasms. There are numerous types of primary chondrosarcomas, including conventional intramedullary, clear cell, juxtacortical, myxoid, mesen...