background: solitary fibrous tumor (sft) is a mesenchymal tumor which is most commonly seen in the pleura; however it can be seen in other organs such as the meninge, gastrointestinal tract, soft tissue, bone, and skin. sft should be differentiated from other mesenchymal tumors in these organs. immunohistochemistry plays a pivotal role for the histopathologic diagnosis of this tumor. currently,...

Dermatofibrosarcoma protruberans is a relatively uncommon slow growing, locally aggressive fibrous tumor of the skin. It has a prospensity of progressing to fibrosarcomatous change in 5% of the cases. We present a case of a 56 yr old male with presented to the outpatient department of surgery, Sri Siddhartha Medical College, Tumkur with a chest swelling in 2013. FNAC was inconclusive and the ma...

dear editor-in-chief   pilomatrixoma is a benign tumor of hair follicle first described as calcifying epithelium (1). it accounts for 1% of all the benign skin tumors (2). it is a slow-growing, firm, dermal or subcutaneous neoplasm, usually measuring fewer than 3 cm in diameter. pilomatricomas are considered benign; rarely recur after surgical excision (3). however, cases of pilomatrixoma with ...

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and melanoma are malignant human cancers of the skin with an annual mortality that exceed 10,000 cases every year in the USA alone. In this study, the lysosomal protein saposin C (SapC) and the phospholipid dioloylphosphatidylserine (DOPS) were assembled into cancer-selective nanovesicles (SapC-DOPS) and successfully tested using several in vitro and in vivo skin c...

warty dyskeratoma is a rare tumor that presents mainly as an isolated papule or nodule on the scalp, face or neck in the adults. warty dyskeratoma frequently arises as a single lesion with a central keratotic plug on the skin of middle-aged or elderly people. multiple warty dyskeratomas are very rare cutaneous lesions which are mostly seen on the scalp. we herein report a multiple warty dyskera...

The heating degree of the inner layers tumor tissue is an important parameter required to optimize plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPT). This study reports optical properties transplanted cholangiocarcinoma and covering tissues in rats without treatment (control group) after PPT using gold nanorods (experimental group). was carried out for 15 min, temperature on skin surface reached 54.8 ± 1.6 ...