papillary carcinoma of the thyroid constitutes 80% of thyroid malignancies in adults. females are affected at least twice as often as males. it metastasizes to distant sites very rarely, but to the cervical nodes quite often. occasionally metastatic lymph node enlargement is the sole presenting feature. t.3.6.7 the tumor is slow growing and sometimes the patient has good survival even in spite ...

We report the case of a 21-year-old Nigerian woman who presented to us with features of intracystic papillary carcinoma, a rare form of breast cancer usually seen in postmenopausal women in their sixth to eighth decades of life. To the best of our knowledge, there has been only one other case report of this lesion occurring in women in their second decade of life.Physical examination showed a w...

INTRODUCTION Intravascular papillary endothelial hyperplasia is a reactive proliferative lesion of endothelial cells in blood vessels. It typically presents as a painless, reddish purple lesion in the sites affected. The orbit remains an uncommon site of affectation of this relatively common disease. It is noteworthy that this is the first reported case, to the best of our knowledge, of orbital...

Benign papillary mesothelioma of the peritoneum is an uncommon lesion that is usually discovered by chance during a surgical procedure. This lesion resembles metastatic carcinoma in gross appearance; therefore, intraoperative diagnosis can be difficult. This report presents a case of benign papillary mesothelioma concurrent with gastric cancer. The tumor was located on the hepatogastric ligamen...

breast metastasis of ovarian carcinoma is rare. to date, only 39 cases have been reported in the english-language  literature  so  far.  we  are  herewith  reporting  a  primary  ovarian  papillary  serous  cyst adenocarcinoma metastasing to breast and epsilateral supraclavicular node in a 58 year old female asthe first case in our centre, located at north-east india.  the purpose of reporting ...

AIM To examine the applicability of routine telepathology to accurately diagnose breast lesions. METHODS During a 36 month period, a dynamic telepathology system was used to assess 315 excisional biopsies and 209 fine needle aspirates of breast lesions submitted by surgeons located 20 km from the hospital. The results of the gross and microscopic telepathology diagnoses were compared with fin...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the expression levels of cyclin D1 in breast papillomas and papillary carcinomas, and to analyze the types of cells that co-express cyclin D1 with cytokeratin 5/6 (CK 5/6) or with cytokeratin 8/18(CK 8/18). METHODS Fifty-nine cases of papillary lesions including 36 papillomas and 23 intracystic papillary carcinomas were examined. Cyclin D1, CK 5/6 and CK 8/18 expression...

Solid papillary carcinoma of breast is rare variety of breast cancer. Here we report one such case of a 46 year female patient presented with painless lump in left breast. After provisional diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in fine needle aspiration cytology, the patient underwent modified radical mastectomy. On histopathology, diagnosis of solid papillary carcinoma of breast was made. The tumor wa...

Invasive ductal carcinoma NOS, or no special type, is the most common type of breast cancer representing 65% to 75% of mammary carcinomas (1,2). Depending on the size of the lesion, size of the breast, and proximity of the lesion to the skin, patients can present with a hard, fixed, palpable mass that may cause skin thickening and retraction (Fig. 8.1). If the cancer is in the subareolar area, ...

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...