intracystic carcinoma of the breast is a rare form of breast carcinoma. among all malignant breast tumors, this lesion has an incidence of 0.2-0.5%. these neoplasms have certain characteristic imaging findings which help to differentiate these lesions from other focal breast abnormalities. this report is on the case of a 48-year-old woman with a palpable, painless lump in her right breast. mamm...

hbme-l is an antimesothelial monoclonal antibody that recognizes an unknown antigen on microvilli of mesothelial cells. the antibody is only relatively specific for mesothelium and is used in the differential diagnosis of mesothelioma and adenocarcinoma within the context of an appropriate immuno-histochemical panel. hbme-l has also been reported to strongly and uniformly stain papillary and fo...

ectopic thyroid tissue results from abnormal embryologic development and migration of the thyroid gland. true malignant transformation in ectopic thyroid tissue is extremely rare and is always diagnosed after surgical excision of the lesion by pathology examinations. there are well-documented cases of ectopic thyroid cancer while primary tumoral lesion occurs in the orthotopic thyroid, but only...

background: thyroid carcinoma is the most common malignancy of the endocrine system. papillary thyroid carcinoma (ptc) is the most common type of thyroid cancer, accounting for 70–90% of well-differentiated thyroid malignancies. thyroid papillary microcarcinoma is a subtype of papillary carcinoma that included tumors with less than 10mm diameter. as a result of diagnostic methods improvement, p...

Background and Objective: Thyroid cancer is the most frequent endocrine malignancy in the world and papillary carcinoma is the most frequent thyroid carcinoma. Different markers used for determination of prognosis and VEGFR is one of them. The aim of present study was to determine the expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor (VEGFR) as a prognostic marker in papillary carcinoma...

Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy. This study surveys the pathologic characteristics of thyroid cancerin Mashhad and study of papillary carcinoma in more detail. In this retrospective study, 108 out of 197 cases of thyroid cancer were papillary in type (55%), with female to male ratio of 1.91 which is lower than current reports. The age at the time of diagnosis ranged ...

papillary thyroid carcinoma (ptc) is one of the most commonly diagnosed types of differentiated carcinoma of the thyroid. it is stated that lung is the most common site of metastasis followed by bone. the incidence of paranasal sinus (pns) metastasis is fairly uncommon in case of thyroid carcinoma. to the best of our knowledge, no case of metastatic ptc to nasal cavity has been reported. in thi...