Background: Primary intra cardiac tumors are rare. In this article, we present papillary fibroelastoma of mitral valve chordae. Case Presentation: A 35-year old man presented with atypical chest pain and palpitation. Physical examination and electrocardiogram were normal. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) revealed a mass of 1015 mm attached to chordae of anteromedial papillary muscle of ...

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 ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the cytologic features of nipple discharge and fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytologic smears from breast lesions reported as showing papillary features and to correlate them with histopathologic features. STUDY DESIGN The study group consisted of FNA smears and/or nipple discharge smears from 65 breast lesions diagnosed on cytology as duct papilloma, papillary lesion, fib...

in 30 patient with single cold thyroid nodule and normal thyroid function tests, 99mtc-mibi scan is performed. the nodules are divided to hot (10), warm (12) and cold (8). fna reported papillary ca in 4, suspicious follicular neoplasm in 3 and 23 benign lesions. 7 patients were operated on and had final pathology reports (4 papillary ca and 3 benign lesions). all the nodules with no mibi uptake...

eosinophilic cholecystitis (ec) is a rare entity that presents in a manner comparable to acute cholecystitis. the diagnosis is based on classical symptoms of cholecystitis with the presence of eosinophils (>90%) within the gallbladder. ec has been reported alone (idiopathic ec) or in combination with manifestations such as eosinophilic cholangitis, hypereosinophilic syndromes, and parasitic inf...

background: papillary thyroid carcinoma (ptc), occurs mostly in women and sex hormones may play a role in the pathogenesis and clinical course. the objective of this study was to determine the status and prevalence of estrogen and progesterone receptors in ptc with regard to age, gender, tumor size and lymph node involvement. methods: immunohistochemical stains were performed on 92 tissue block...

background: there are inter-observer disagreements between papillary thyroid carcinoma (ptc) with other follicular lesions of thyroid in aspect of diagnosis. cd56 is present on follicular epithelial cells of the normal thyroid. we evaluated the diagnostic value of cd56 expression in ptc, follicular thyroid lesions, and follicular thyroid neoplasms. materials and methods: seventythree cases diag...

in view of the rapid expansion of contact lens amongst the users, new dimensions have been added to the domain of ophthalmology: giant papillay conjunctivitis, a disease caused by different kinds of contact lens, appears weeks or months after they are used, although some patients are struck years later. the predominant symptoms are increased awareness of lenses, ocular itching, blurred vision a...

The most usual form of the endocrine carcinoma is thyroid cancer (TC). In addition to papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), recent studies revealed incidence of RET/PTC rearrangement in other tumors, like Hürthle cell carcinoma (HCC) and even in non-carcinomatous disorders like Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Here, we present a case with concurrence of papillary thyroid carcinoma and Hürthle cell carcino...

DIAGNOSIS: A. All that is papillary in the bladder is not papillary urothelial neoplasia: i. Diagnostic pitfalls: papillary hyperplasia, nephrogenic adenoma, fibroepithelial polyp and papillary/polypoid cystitis ii. Artifacts: pseudopapillary folds and avulsed urothelium B. All urothelial proliferations that expand the lamina propria are not invasive carcinoma: i. Diagnostic pitfalls: florid vo...