Presacral Ganglioneuroma: Diagnostic Considerations and Therapeutic Strategy

Presacral Ganglioneuroma: Diagnostic Considerations and Therapeutic Strategy

Presacral ganglioneuroma is an extremely rare tumor of neural crest origin. To the best of our knowledge, less than 20 cases have been reported previously. The present study reports on a presacral ganglioneuroma, 10.5 × 8 × 4 cm in size, that was found incidentally in a 35-year-old man with prior history of diverticulitis. He was admitted to our hospital due to lower left abdominal pain. Abdomi...

Prostate Cancer: Essential Diagnostic and Therapeutic Considerations

Fournier’s Gangrene: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Considerations

Fournier’s gangrene is a necrotising fasciitis of the genitalia. Jean Alfred Fournier (18321914) was the first French syphilologist, the first professor of cutaneous and syphilitic diseases at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, and the most prominent European venereologist of the second half of the 19th century. He first described idiopathic, rapily progressive necrotizing gangrene of the male geni...

Hypereosinophilic syndrome variants: diagnostic and therapeutic considerations.

H ypereosinophilic syndromes (HES) are a group of disorders characterized by persistent and marked hypereosinophilia (>1500 per microliter) not due to an underlying disease known to cause eosinophil expansion (such as an allergic drug reaction or parasitic infection), and which is directly implicated in damage or dysfunction of at least one target organ or tissue. Although rare, HES have recent...

Rathke cleft cyst: diagnostic and therapeutic considerations.

OBJECTIVE To highlight diagnostic and therapeutic issues about Rathke cleft cysts for otorhinolaryngologists. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed data collected on Rathke cleft cysts between 1978 and 1998: presenting symptoms, visual acuity, surgical treatment, complications, recurrences, and effect on daily activity. RESULTS Twenty-nine patients were diagnosed...