Pilomatrixoma is a benign appendageal tumor, accounting for 1% of all benign skin lesions (1). It is mostly seen in children and young adults up to 20 years of age, the second peak being in the sixth and seventh decade of life. Pilomatrixoma usually manifests as a solitary, asymptomatic nodule on the head and less frequently on the upper and lower extremities. The diagnosis is commonly based on...

Case report An 81-year-old male was brought to the Casualty Department, Kingston Public Hospital, Jamaica, and was pronounced dead on arrival. According to the relative, the main complaint of the deceased had been, for some time, recurrent abdominal pain and loss of weight. External examination revealed the deceased to be moderately built and emaciated. There was no clubbing of the fingers or e...

The title “Metastasis of a Basal-cell Epithelioma” might be considered a “ contradiction in terms,” as absence of metastasis is generally considered one of the cardinal characteristics of basal-cell epithelioma. Sutton (1) defines basal-cell epithelioma as “ a comparatively benign variety of carcinoma of the skin which probably develops from the basal layer of the epidermis or from the skin gla...

Calcifying odontogenic cyst is a developmental odontogenic cyst first described by Gorlin in 1962. It is considered as an extremely rare condition and shows extensive diversity in its clinicopathological appearances and biologic behavior. In this report a rare case of calcifying odontogenic cyst with ameloblastic proliferation (an extremely rare histologic variant) with one year follow – up is ...

Calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumors are rare odontogenic neoplasms that account for approximately one percent of all odontogenic tumors. Extra osseous variant is very rare with very few cases being reported in literature Peripheral Calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor (CEOT) commonly resemble oral hyperplastic or reactive lesions and are histologically similar to their intraosseous coun...

Three different types of tumors are known to develop from the pars ciliaris reti­ nae: the benign Fuchs epithelioma, the ma­ lignant medullo-epithelioma of the embry­ onic type, and the malignant medullo-epi­ thelioma of the adult type. Chart 1 indicates the relationship of these tumors to the prim­ itive retinal elements and to the tumors of other parts of the retina. The Fuchs epithelioma sim...

odontogenic tumors are derived from epithelial, ectomesenchymal and/or mesenchymal elements that are or have been a part of the tooth-forming apparatus. of all the odontogenic tumors, calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor accounts for 1% of the cases. approximately 200 cases have been reported to date. there is no sex predilection, with a 2:1 predilection for the mandible, mostly in the premo...

Calcifying fibrous tumor (CFT) is a rare mesenchymal tumor, affecting children and young adults with a predilection for the soft tissue and the abdominal cavity. CFT of the tubular gastrointestinal tract is very rare with less than 20 cases of gastric CFTs reported in English literature. This benign hypocellular fibrosclerotic calcifying lesion can resemble other spindle cell tumors particularl...