introduction: a keratocystic odontogenic tumor is a benign intra-bone mass originating from dental lamina or its residue. it represents 2–11% of jaw cysts, and has a slow but aggressive growth. the evaluation of molecular characteristics, immunohistochemistry, and genetic expression currently have no established classification regarding the evolution and pathophysiologic pattern of these lesion...

conclusions pnet/ews should be included in the differential diagnosis of renal tumors in symptomatic young adults. patients with localised pnet/ews treated with a combination of surgery and chemotherapy have an excellent chance of long-term survival, as in the case we have presented. introduction primitive neuroectodermal tumor (pnet)/ewing’s sarcoma (ews) belongs to a family of neoplasms that ...

introduction:neurogenic mediastinal tumors comprise a wide range of benign and malignant diseases. a group of these tumors, located at thoracic apex, sometimes spread to cervical spaces causing numerous surgical difficulties. in thoracotomy approaches, due to proximity of the tumors to major blood vessels, complete removal of these tumors from cervical spaces is impossible or may cause intraope...

introduction: different imaging modalities are used to evaluate salivary gland diseases, including tumors. ultrasonography (us) is the preferred method on account of its ease of use, affordability, safety profile, and good tolerance among patients. the aim of this study was to evaluate the role of us in differentiating malignant from benign parotid tumors, in the context of previous controversy...

introduction: notochord. although histologically benign, these tumors are locally aggressiveand present significant managment challenges . there arew some studies onevaluated the location, age and gender of the patients with chordoma in tworeferral centers in tehran.chordoma cases but there was no study about iranian cases. in this study weskull base chordomas are rare neoplasms arising from th...

A 60-year-old lady presented to us with a right upper abdominal mass. With a clinical diagnosis of liver tumor, she was evaluated with abdominal CT, MRI, nuclear scan, tumor markers, USG guided FNAC and other baseline investigations. On evaluation she had a massive right lobe tumor crossing the midline. In view of the ambiguous diagnosis she was subjected to laparotomy where the lesion was judg...

OBJECTIVE To identify the CT features that help differentiate gastric schwannomas (GS) from small (5 cm or smaller) gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) and to assess the growth rates of both tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS We included 16 small GSs and 56 GISTs located in the stomach. We evaluated the CT features including size, contour, surface pattern, margins, growth pattern, pattern and d...

UNLABELLED The standard approach for evaluating FDG-PET kinetic studies is based upon an assumption that tissue within a representative region of interest (ROI) is relatively homogeneous in terms of FDG kinetics. In neoplasms and other disease states, tissue within an ROI may be grossly heterogeneous, due to adjacent infarcted tissue and other causes. We have developed a method employing two RO...