Our article reports a case of a 35-year-old man with cardiac mass, who underwent a wide range of imaging methods, including cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT). Contrast-enhanced MRI images revealed "sun ray" pattern in the mass. Final histopathological diagnosis of angiosarcoma was confirmed during autopsy. To our knowledge, ou...

A 38-year-old man without any symptoms was admitted to our institution because of an abnormal shadow found incidentally on a chest X-ray. Chest computed tomography showed a round mass in the lingular segment of the left upper lobe. Lingular segmentectomy was performed, and the histopathological diagnosis was intrapulmonary schwannoma. Immunohistochemical staining revealed a positive result for ...

We describe a 32-year-old man with no history of pulmonary disease who presented with extensive cavernous destruction of the right upper lobe as an incidental finding on a chest x-ray film. All major criteria of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) were present. Histologic examination of the resected lobe showed the typical features of ABPA. The differential diagnosis of multiple cavi...

An 80-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with increasing colicky pain and loss of appetite. Abdominal X-ray films revealed gross dilatation of the colon without any characteristic features of volvulus such as the coffee bean sign (Fig. 1). Abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed a dilated colon with an air/fluid level and the “whirl sign”, which represents twisted colon and mesentery...

The situs inversus is a rare congenital anomaly, which is a more or less complete inversion of the abdominal and thoracic organs. We report a case of 70 years old man, without pathological antecedents complaining about epigastric pains associated to haematemesis, and whose gastric endoscopy objectified a gastric tumor. The pulmonary x-ray and the abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed the ...

A 48-year-old man who complained of a severe throbbing pain in his right lateral chest was referred to our department. His chest computed tomography (CT) and X-ray, abdominal CT and ultrasonography had revealed no abnormalities. Four days after admission to our ward the patient vomited and he requested upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy: this showed duodenal ulcer. Treatment with omeprazole ...

Accepted 30 October 1996 A 22-year-old man was admitted to hospital with a 14-kg weight-loss over the last 14 months, and an abnormal chest X-ray. Physical examination revealed signs of consolidation over the left hemithorax, fever, tachypnoea and tachycardia. Computed tomography (CT) was performed (figure 1) and one liter of bloody fluid was drained by thoracentesis. Abdominal CT scan was normal.

A 38-year-old man presented to the accident and emergency department complaining of severe neck pain. This had started immediately after swinging his Wii game console control during a rather vigorous game. An X-ray demonstrated a clay-shoveler's fracture of C7. This had radiological features to suggest an acute injury. This is the first report of a clay-shoveler's fracture strongly suggestive o...

An unusual case of avulsion fracture of the tibial tuberosity with underlying angiomatosis in a middle-aged man is described, with particular emphasis on the successful use of bisphosphonate in its treatment and the value of serial dual energy X-ray absorptiometry in its subsequent disease monitoring. This case illustrates the importance of careful correlation of the clinical, radiological, and...

Fig. 1. (A and B) Conventional X-ray images of an 81-year-old man (A: posterior-anter mediastinal mass (arrows). (C and D) CTangiography (C: cross-sectional image; D: mu exceptional aneurysmally enlargement of up to 8 cm in diameter and embedded fr consistent with the diagnosis of a giant partially thrombotic aneurysm of an aortocoron wall thinning presumably from a previous myocardial infarction.