Myeloid sarcoma without circulating leukemia mimicking gastrointestinal malignancy and lymphoma

Pediatric gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis mimicking malignancy

Basidiobolomycosis is a rare fungal infection with high prevalence in southwestern province of Saudi Arabia (Tohama region); it mainly causes subcutaneous infections and rarely gastrointestinal disease. Because of its indolent presentation, it is often misdiagnosed as IBD, tuberculosis or Malignancy. We are reporting a 7 year old Saudi girl with abdominal mass, fever and eosinophilia resembling...

Soft tissue sarcoma mimicking eosinophilic leukemia.

Blood eosinophilia is diagnosed by an absolute eosinophil count that exceeds 0.5 × 109/L.1 Hypereosinophilia is classified as either primary, due to clonal expansion of eosinophils through acquisition of a somatic mutation (eg, FIP1L1-PDGFRA),1 or secondary, as seen in response to exogenous type 2 cytokines (eg, IL-3, IL-5, and GMCSF) secreted by various cells (eg, T-lymphocytes).2-4 Secondary ...

Omental synovial sarcoma mimicking an ovarian malignancy: A case report

Synovial sarcoma is clinically rare, and cases of synovial sarcoma arising in the omentum are particularly rare. Only 3 cases have been reported in the literature to dtae, and they were associated with a poor prognosis. We herein report a rare case of aggressive primary omental synovial sarcoma presenting as an ovarian malignancy. A 53-year-old multigravida woman was referred to our hospital du...

Cecal Giant Lipoma Mimicking Malignancy

chronic myeloid leukemia as a stem cell-derived malignancy

chronic myeloid leukemia (cml) is a myeloproliferative disease of the hematopoietic stem cells, characterized by the presence of the philadelphia (ph) chromosome. although imatinib inhibits the bcr-abl kinase activity, clinical experiences confirm that imatinib may not target cml stem cells in vivo. the identification of signaling pathways responsible for the self-renewal properties of leukemic...