Primary orbital yolk sac tumour in a 14-year-old girl

Tumour in a 14 year old girl.

The patient, a 14 yr old girl, is the fifth child of a German family with nine children. Ten years previously both parents were infected with tubercle bacteria by their grandmother. At that time, our patient showed signs of primary tuberculosis (chest X-ray) and was treated with combined chemotherapy from 1981-1983. Chest X-ray films up to 1987 remained without pathological findings, except for...

Primary yolk sac tumour of the liver in adulthood.

Primary yolk sac tumour of the liver is exceedingly rare. A 28 year old woman presented with a cystic liver mass and a markedly raised serum alpha-fetoprotein concentration. She underwent a partial hepatectomy for a suspected hepatocellular carcinoma but histological examination of the tumour revealed the classical morphological and immunohistochemical features of a yolk sac tumour. There was n...

Primary mediastinal yolk sac tumor in a 66-year-old woman.

OBJECTIVE To report a rare case of nonseminomatous extragonadal germ cell tumor in a 66-year-old female with primary yolk sac tumor of the mediastinum. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 66-year-old female was admitted to our hospital with a history of chest pain for 1 month. Computerized tomography of the thorax showed a left paracardiac mass adjacent to the aortic arch, left main pulm...

Pott puffy tumour in a five-year-old girl.

Relapsing autoimmune pancreatitis in a 14-year-old girl.

We present a case of acute pancreatitis in a 14-year-old girl which fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) and responded to corticosteroid therapy. Imaging studies revealed that the main pancreatic duct was narrow in the head of the pancreas but had been dilated in the body at an earlier stage. The pancreatitis recurred twice when the prednisolone dose was reduced to...