LARYNGECTOMY FOR EPITHELIOMA

Epithelioma Adamantinum

from the Clinical History.--The patient, female, aged thirty years, was admitted to St. Joseph's Hospital. Two years and three months ago she first noticed a small, hard tumor near the first bicuspid tooth on the left side of the lower jaw bone. It grew slowly. In childhood there was nothing unusual about her teeth, which were perfectly regular and even up to the time of her present illness. Ex...

Benign calcifying epithelioma.

A BENIGN calcifying epithelioma is a subcutaneous tumour, first described by Malherbe and Chenantais (1880), who called it l'epitheliome calcifie des glandes sebacees. Malherbe (1881, 1905) added more details, but only four examples of such tumours have been reported in the ophthalmic literature (Ashton, 1951; Kornblueth and Liban, 1955). Histological examination of material from the Radcliffe ...

Epithelioma Adenoides Cysticum

mann (Ewing, 1928) contends that since all epithelial tumours arise from the basal cells the term basal-cell carcinoma was not quite suitable. But Krompecher's choice of term may be justified on the ground that basal-cell epithelioma is composed of basal cells which retain their morphological characters throughout their existence, in contrast to the squamous-cell carcinoma in which the basal ce...

Laryngocele after Subtotal Laryngectomy

Introduction: Laryngocele is an air-filled dilatation of the laryngeal saccule that extends upward within the false vocal folds. Different etiologies lead to laryngocele congenital malformation, weakness of the laryngeal tissues and increased intralaryngeal pressure. Laryngocele may be a secondary iatrogenic complication following subtotal laryngectomy.   Case Report: We report the case of a 61...

Tricho-epithelioma of the Eyelid.