Persistent umbilical polyp in a 5-year-old boy – A rare case report with literature review

A Rare Case of Duplication of Chromosome 2 (q31.3q36.3) in a 4.5-year-old Boy and Review of the Literature

De novo duplication of 2q is very rare. Most cases of 2q duplications result from familial translocations, and are associated with simultaneous monosomy of another chromosome segment. To our knowledge and search in English literature there are less than 20 reported cases of isolated 2q duplication. Hereby we introduce a 4.5-year-old Iranian boy of a non-consanguineous marriage who was referred ...

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis report of a case in a 5 year old boy

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis is an unusual type of the kidney infection which is characterized by infiltration of mononuclear inflammatory cells and lipid laden macrophages ( foam cells). It is manifested by a firm, lobulated and yellowish kidney mass which is difficult to differentiate from renal cell carcinoma grossly. Six out of 1000 cases of cryonic pyelonephritis which are treated su...

Aggressive fibromatosis of the oral cavity in a 5 year old boy: a rare case report

Fibrous tissue proliferations express a wide spectrum of histologic and morphologic variation in both infants and adults. This ranges from hypertrophic scar formation at one end to malignant fibrosarcoma at the other end of the spectrum. Aggressive fibromatosis is an intermediate tumor which is in proximity to fibrosarcomas. These are locally invasive and often recur after excision, but do not ...

A 6-year-old boy with Sulzberger and Garbe dermatosis: a case report and literature review

Sulzberger-Garbe disease was described in 1937. Not more than a hundred of cases of the disease have been reported in the literature. Despite a quite specific picture, there are no features that could undeniably be attributed to this particular disease entity. Discoid exudative and lichenoid lesions are main lesions in this dermatosis. The disease is associated with severe pruritus. The lesions...

Multivisceral Hydatidosis in a 5-Year-Old Boy