DIAGNOSIS OF INTRA-THORACIC TUMOURS.

Mesenteric paraganglioma's: an important differential diagnosis in intra-abdominal tumours.

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION We present the case of a 63-year-old lady who complained of feeling constantly tired and lethargic, and was found to have iron defi ciency anaemia. There was no history of per vaginal bleeding. Examination was normal apart from a large, mobile, fi rm, well-defi ned abdominal mass in the upper abdomen approximately 10cm in diameter. The abdominal CT scan revealed a large intra...

Intra-ocular Tumours.

IN practice, intra-ocular tumours are vaguely classified as gliomata if they originate in the retina, or as melanomata if they have originated in the choroid and contain brown pigment that does not give the iron reaction. Those attempting greater precision place most of the gliomata in the more restricted group of retinoblastomata. The problem, however, is not so simple, for on closer examinati...

Intra-thoracic lipomata.

Posterior Vertebrectomy for High Thoracic and Cervico-thoracic Vertebral Tumours

Accuracy of intra-operative frozen section in the diagnosis of ovarian tumours.

OBJECTIVES To compare frozen-section results with definitive histopathological results of ovarian tumours diagnosed intra operatively at the Zonguldak Maternity Hospital, Zonguldak, Turkey. METHODS The definitive histopathological results of 278 patients who underwent surgery between January 2002 and December 2008 for ovarian masses and on whom frozen sectioning was performed were evaluated r...