Unusual Records near Boston, Mass

An unusual mass in unusual gender

An unusual abdominal mass.

Accepted 20 August 1997 A 78-year old woman presented with pain in her left lower abdomen for three days. She had also noticed an associated swelling in the same area, and a feeling of incomplete evacuation of her bowel. However, there was no nausea, vomiting, change in bowel habits, or rectal bleeding. She was otherwise fit and healthy, apart from mild hypertension for which she was taking ben...

An unusual pulmonary mass.

Accepted 17 April 1996 A 23-year-old woman smoker complained of right-sided chest pain. The patient had no significant personal or family history. She was asymptomatic, and physical examination was unremarkable. Her chest X-ray and thoracic computed tomography (CT) scan are shown in figures 1 and 2. Blood biochemical and haematological examinations were normal, as was abdominal ultrasonography....

Unusual Ossifying Pediatric Renal Mass: A Case Report

Renal cell carcinoma is an uncommon tumor in pediatric population.It is important for the clinicians to know its diagnosis as the management of renal cell carcinoma RCC is different from Wilms Tumor which is the most common tumor encountered in children .The management is surgical resection with no proven role for chemo or radiotherapy so far. Here, we present a case of seven-year-old male chil...

An unusual cerebral mass lesion.

Accepted 15 February 1995 A 54-year-old Caucasian woman living in Bahrain presented with a four-week history of headache associated with heaviness in the left arm and leg. Her past history included recurrent migranous headaches with associated visual aura. Fifteen years prior to admission she had developed a temporary left facial palsy and unsteadiness diagnosed as Bell's palsy. The patient did...