Blutung in eine Struma cystica

Studies in Spina Bifida Cystica

Nicolai Tulp, the physician whose features are immortalized in Rembrandt's painting 'The School of Anatomy', first suggested the name 'spina bifida' (Tulpius, 1652), though the condition was known to Hippocrates, and the mediaeval Arab physicians are said (Denuce, 1906) to have specifically recognized the absence of the spinous processes in the affected area. Ruysch (1691) distinguished between...

Spina bifida cystica.

Struma Lymphomatosa (Hashimoto)

Five cases of struma lymphomatosa corresponding in every essential detail with those reported by Hashimoto have come under our observation, on reviewing 205 biopsy reports of the thyroid in the department of pathology for eleven years ending with December 1943. Since the publication of Riedel's descriptions of struma in 1896, and of Hashimoto's struma lymphomatosa in 1912, there has been much d...

Struma ovarii maligna.

INTRODUCTION Malignant struma ovarii is a rare ovarian neoplasm composed predominantly of mature thyroid tissue. CASE REPORT A right ovarian tumor was discovered at ultrasound examination in a 20-year-old woman. Complete right ovariectomy was done - histopathological examination revealed papillary thyroid carcinoma arising in struma ovarii (malignant struma ovarii). Patient underwent subseque...

Hyperthyroidism with Struma

Struma ovarii or monodermal teratoma, is a specialized ovarian neoplasm composed entirely of mature thyroid tissue. It is a relatively rare tumor which comprises 1% of all ovarian tumors and 2.7% of all dermoid tumors. Its colour and consistency is like that of a thyroid tissue. The tissue may show any of the pathologic changes seen in a normally placed gland, including diffuse or nodular hyper...