We treated a 49-year-old woman with synchronous multiple bronchioloalveolar carcinomas (BAC). Multiple bilateral 'ground-glass' opacities were detected by computed tomography (CT). We performed partial lung resection, and the pathologic diagnosis was atypical adenomatous hyperplasia. Two and one-half years later, a lesion showed enlargement, and was resected along with some others. The histopat...

BACKGROUND Demyelination is a neurologic disease, usually diagnosed on the basis of clinical symptomatology and radiologic studies. Rarely, both may be deceiving and masquerading a neoplastic lesion or vice versa. CASE DESCRIPTION In the present communication, we describe 2 cases with similar clinical profiles and radiologic pictures, but which turn out to be contrasting pathologic diagnoses....

We present two cases of central giant cell granuloma in the temporal bone. CT showed an enhancing tumor causing a smoothly margined temporal squamosa and floor of the middle fossa. External carotid angiograms showed tumor stain mainly supplied by the temporal branches of the internal maxillary artery. In one case, MR images showed a hypointense mass on both T1- and T2-weighted images that was t...

Breast masses are uncommon in children and adolescent. Giant fibroadenoma account for 0.5%-2% of all fibroadenoma& (and the) exact etiology is not known. Fibroadenomas tend to grow slowly and often reach a maximum diameter of 2-3 cm in size. Among breast masses pathologic lesion such as giant fibroadenoma, phylloides tumor and virginal breast hypertrophy (juvenile macromastia) rapidly & massive...

A case is reported in which a congenital aneurysm of the right coronary sinus of Valsalva ruptured and dissected into the interventricular septum. M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiographic examination allowed accurate preoperative assessment of the pathologic anatomy, which was confirmed by angiography, surgery and autopsy. Dissection of the interventricular septum by a congenital sinus of V...

Pyogenic granuloma is a lesion characterized by excessive production of granulation tissue in response to trauma or chronic irritating stimulation. This pathological entity affects more often children and young adult females, being found mainly in the gum. Clinically, the lesions appear as smooth or lobulated red nodules with easy bleeding, occasionally ulcerated. The present work aims to repor...

A case is reported in which a congenital aneurysm of the right coronary sinus of Valsalva ruptured and dissected into the interventricular septum. M-mode and cross-sectional echocardiographic examination allowed accurate preoperative assessment of the pathologic anatomy, which was confirmed by angiography, surgery and autopsy. Dissection of the interventricular septum by a congenital sinus of V...

Cemento-ossifying fibroma (COF) of maxilla is comparatively rare lesion of the maxillofacial region. There is often a misdiagnosis in the category of fibroosseous lesions, owing to an overlap of clinical, histological and radiographic features amongst the separate entities. We present a case of giant maxillary COF causing extensive disfiguration of the face, along with extensive review of the c...

Intradural epidermoid tumors occur more often in patients with a history of one or more lumbar punctures (1-4). It is hypothesized that they result from skin fragments introduced into the thecal sac during lumbar puncture and that they differ from the congenital heterotopic lesions. This report details the characteristic patient history , the water-soluble myelographic findings, and the MR appe...

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is an uncommon chronic inflammatory lesion of the breast, which is sometimes misdiagnosed as breast cancer or breast abscess. We present a 30-year old woman who came to our clinic with a recurrent and multiple abscesses in her left breast. After twice incision and drainage of the abscess, and after pathologic diagnosis of IGM, she was treated with prednis...