The patient, a Burmese woman, aged about 22 years, married but with no children, was admitted to hospital with an enormous abdominal tumour of about one and a half years' duration. The tumour occupied the entire abdominal cavity, extending above to the costal arch, pushing the spleen and liver before it, below to the symphysis pubis, and to Poupart's ligaments on both sides, and backwards to th...

Growing teratoma syndrome (GTS) an extremely rare phenomenon complicatingmalignant ovarian germ cell tumours. Till date very few have been reported. Growing teratoma syndrome (GTS) is characterised by increase in the size of a tumour occurringduring or after chemotherapy for mixed germ cell tumour. Complete surgical resection not only confirms the diagnosis, revealing mature teratoma component,...

INTRODUCTION Neoplastic growths of myofibroblasts occurring on a background of plasma cell and lymphocytic proliferation have been designated as inflammatory myofibroblastic tumours (IMTs). These unusual tumours were first described in pulmonary location in adults. Though extrapulmonary masses have been reported in children; retroperitoneal growths are exceedingly rare. We report a case of retr...

Solid pseudopapillary tumour (SPT) is an unusual pancreatic neoplasm which predominantly affects young women. Less than 10% of patients with SPT in the reported literature were male. In this paper, the authors report two new cases of SPT that occurred in two male patients aged respectively 25 and 20 years old. Abdominal computed tomography scan showed a well-defined heterogeneous mass involving...

Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is an uncommon malignant soft tissue tumour rarely found in the female genital tract and carries a very poor prognosis especially in adults. A 44 year old premenopausal woman was evaluated for a lower abdominal mass, intermittent unprovoked vaginal bleeding and weight loss. Examination showed a huge abdomino-pelvic mass, and an irregular cauliflower mass protruding fro...

A 30 years old grandmultiparous woman presented with 6 month history of severe abdominal pain and 4 month history of progressive abdominal swelling associated with multiple swellings on her abdomen and her breasts. She had laparotomy two years earlier for a suspected fibroid. A repeat laparatomy discovered a huge left ovarian tumour; which are multilobulated and hard. She had Total Abdominal Hy...

BACKGROUND Desmoid tumours or fibromatoses are rare entities characterized by the benign proliferation of fibroblasts, which can be life-threatening due to their locally aggressive properties. Surgery is widely accepted as the first line of treatment for extra-abdominal desmoids; however, it is not recommended for intra-abdominal desmoids because of the high-risk of recurrence and difficulties ...

MEDICAL MEMORANDA Enteric Intussusception Presenting as a Cystic Abdominal Tumour. IAN W. MACPHEE, F.R.C.S. .................... 525 Gastro-gastric Intussusception Produced by Pedunculated Intragastric Tumour. ALAN THOMSON, F.R.C.S.Ed .... ...... 525 M ultiple Intussusceptions. STEWART FEGGCETTER, M.S., F.R.C.S. ... 526 Ileo-colic Intussusception of Traumatic Origin. JAMES COOK, F.R.C.S.Ed., F....

A patient presented with subtotal villous atrophy and a malignant duodenal tumour of uncertain histogenesis. He was successfully treated by resection and chemotherapy and the small bowel mucosa recovered on a gluten free diet. The tumour was diagnosed at upper gastrointestinal endoscopy when barium studies and abdominal computed tomography were normal, thus making this one of the earliest coeli...

Interferon (IFN) and meta-iodobenzylguanidin (MIBG) are active in metastatic carcinoids. In a phase II study, we evaluated the effect upon diagnostic 131I-MIBG uptake and the clinical response of the combination. 131I-MIBG scintigraphy was performed prior to treatment, after 8 weeks of IFN and after unlabelled MIBG. The tumour over non-tumour (T/NT) ratios were quantitatively determined by comp...