Endometriosis may b, defined as the growth of endometrium in situations other than the uterine cavity. The sites where these aberrant growths are most commonly found are the uterine wall, the ovaries, and the peritoneum of the pouch of Douglas. Cases are also recorded in which endometrial deposits were found in tissues remote from the genital tract, such as the bowel, the umbilicus, the bladder...

I am permitted to report the above case through the kindness of Dr. Harris, Principal, Calcutta Medical College. The patient was in his ward while I was his house physician Patient named K. 0., a Maliomedan female, aged forty-eight, was admitted in tlie Medical College Hospital with a history of three months' illness Her chief complaint was pain over the left shoulder-blade which was so severe ...

Angiosarcoma is a rare, highly malignant tumor arising from endothelial cells of small blood vessels. They usually occur in the skin, deep soft tissues, breast and liver. Pleural angiosarcomas are extremely rare and are restricted to case reports in medical literature. It is very difficult to distinguish them from malignant mesotheliomas on clinical, radiological and even histopathological feat...

Extraskeletal osteosarcoma is a rare malignant tumor occurring very rarely in the pleura. We herein report the case of 67-year-old man with asbestos exposure, who underwent biopsies of the large tumor from the chest wall, and diagnosed as a suspicious of fibrosarcoma. Surgical resection was done, and the pathological diagnosis was extraskeletal osteosarcoma arising from the pleura. The differen...

Wagner’ in Germany in 1870 was the first to describe a tumor with the characteristics of a pleural mesothelioma and to recognize it as a pathological entity. He called it “a tubercle-like lymph adenoma.” From the time of this first description there has been a controversy among medical authorities until recently relative to the origin, histology and nomenclature of this dIsease. It has been var...

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