Hodgkin's disease of the thymus gland

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Primary non-Hodgkins lymphoma of the parotid gland.

UNLABELLED Primary malignant lymphomas in the salivary glands are relatively rare. Clinical presentation is not characteristic and the disease is often overlooked resulting in diagnosis and treatment delays. AIM To stress the importance of the diagnostic process and combined management, we present a series of eight patients with malignant lymphoma of the parotid who were diagnosed only after ...

HYDATID DISEASE OF THE SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND

Echinococcosis is a tissue infection of the human caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus or E. multilocularis. Hydatid cyst of the head and neck region is uncommon and involvement of the salivary glands, especially the submandibular gland, is very rare. In this article, a case of submandibular gland hydatid cyst is reported in a patient who presented with swelling of this are...

Gigantic enlargement of the thymus gland.

True massive thymic hyperplasia is a very rare entity, characterized by an increase in the size and weight of the thymus gland, without an apparent cause. Surgery has been required in patients with severe respiratory distress. We present an idiopathic true massive thymic hyperplasia in a 5-month-old boy.

Compensatory Hypertrophy of Thymus Gland

We recently have reported several studies concerning the marked stimulation of growth and regeneration that occurs in the thymus gland of rats, of any age, following double suprarenalectomy (1-3). We showed that, as the result of such a procedure, marked hyperplasia of the involuting thymus, with enlargement of the same, occurs with great constancy. In line with these studies, we undertook a se...