MALIGNANT PIGMENTED TUMOURS.

Pigmented Bowens disease mimicking malignant Melanoma: A case report

Pigmented Bowens disease is an in situ squamous cell carcinoma, which is seldom reported in white patients. Herein we report a 20-year-old woman with type III skin, who had this lesion on the fourth finger of her right hand, similar to superficial malignant melanoma, clinically. Although dermoscopic evaluation could be helpful, correct diagnosis of non-melanotic origin is done by histological e...

Pigmented epithelial tumours of the conjunctiva.

Two out of 60 conjunctival epithelial tumours reviewed between 1973 and 1989 were found to be pigmented. One tumour was a pigmented papilloma and the other a pigmented squamous cell carcinoma. The melanin pigment was found in epithelial tumour cells as well as in macrophages, dendritic melanocytes, and Langerhans cells. The distinction between the latter two types of cells was possible in one o...

“Malignant Brain Tumours.”

This book attempts and to a great extent achieves, its apparent object to review brain tumours in a comprehensive manner. It is a series of chapters by appropriate experts ranging in subject from molecular genetics, through clinical presentation, investigations to the various forms of management. It is up-to-date. The book's editors are well known and credible-a neurosurgeon and a neuropatholog...

Tumours Innocent and Malignant

Tumours, Innocent and Malignant

It is always a pleasant task to review a book written by Mr. Bland Sutton, because the originality of his work distinguishes it at once from the mere compilations of so many authors. This book on tumours is no exception to the rule. From the author of Dermoids and Ovarian Tumours we expect much when he writes on tumours in general; and as we examine this book our expectations are abundantly rea...