The maxillofacial region is rarely subjected to self-inflicted conditions such as factitious disease. Nasal ulceration, facial emphysema, periorbital ecchymosis, mandibular subluxation, gingival and mucosal ulceration, dental and salivary gland pain and glossopharyngeal neuralgia have been reported as possible manifestations of factitious disease. We report a case of a young woman who presented...

Hilar cholangiocarcinoma, also known as Klatskin tumour, is the commonest type of cholangiocarcinoma. It poses unique problems in the diagnosis and management because of its anatomical location. Curative surgery in the form of major hepatic resection entails significant morbidity. About 5-15% of specimens resected for presumed Klatskin tumour prove not to be cholangiocarcinomas. There are a num...

conclusions although in our study washout pattern was the most powerful indicator for malignant pathology in non mass like enhancing lesions, more studies with larger sample size needs in this regard. background several studies on the diagnostic efficacy of mri has not real consensus for the accuracy of mri characteristics in non mass like breast lesions, and the number of malignant lesions in ...

Behcet’s disease is a multisystem disease characterized clinically by oral aphthae and occasionally by genital aphthae, cutaneous lesions such as pustular vasculitis, sweet syndrome-like, pyoderma gangrenosum-like and erythema nodosum-like lesions and variably present systemic features such as synovitis, anterior and posterior uveitis, meningoencephalitis and large vessel smaller vessel vascula...

background and objective: different mechanisms may lead to the development of soft tissue tumor-like lesions in the oral cavity. many of these lesions can be identified as specific entities on the basis of their histopathological features and are divided into fibrous, vascular, and giant cell types. the purpose of this study was to establish the relative prevalence of the different histopatholo...

conclusion non-mass-like lesions, lesions with focal or segmental distribution, with a “plateau” enhancement curve type were the most frequent findings of dcis lesions on mri. background adequate diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ (dcis) could lead to efficacious treatment. due to the fact that dcis lesions can progress to invasive carcinomas and that the sensitivity of the standard examinat...