Primary squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the stomach is rare. Its pathogenesis is also unclear and there are conflicting reports about it in the past. Only about 100 cases have been reported so far in the literature. The current study discusses a new case of gastric squamous cell carcinoma, from a 50-year-old Chinese male patient diagnosed via subtotal gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction ...

purpose : to describe a case of bilateral squamous cell carcinoma in right nasal and left temporal conjunctiva, simulating bilateral pterygium case report : a reddish fibrovascular pterygium-like lesion was observed in the nasal side of bulbar conjunctiva on the right eye and temporal conjunctiva of the left eye. medical examination not revealed any coexistent malignancy elsewhere excisional bi...

Background: Pilomatrixoma is a benign neoplasm derived from hair follicles, and it rarely happens. Some cases were misdiagnostic with another skin lesion. One of them was squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). This study aimed to describe the pilomatrixoma pathology description carcinoma.
 Case presentation: A man, 72 years old admitted hospital chief complaint lump on his chin that penetrated int...

Dear Editor, Lynch syndrome (LS) is caused by a germline mutation in one of the mismatch repair (MMR) genes. Individuals with LS have an increased risk developing colorectal and many other tumours including skin tumours.1 Sebaceous neoplasms keratoacanthomas are associated LS, also known as Muir-Torre syndrome. For cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), association has been suggested.

background and objective: cutaneous cytology is the study of scraping or smears obtained from skin lesions. although not commonly employed, cutaneous cytology has been a useful tool for clinicians due to simplified procedures and high sensitivity and specificity of presurgical clinical diagnosis of common types of skin tumors. this investigation was conducted to study usefulness of cutaneous cy...

Copyright © 2011. Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology Cervical carcinoma is the third most common cancer in women, and the seventh overall, with an estimated 530,000 new cases in 2008 [1] and the one of the most lethal female malignancies in developing countries [2]. Cervical carcinoma can be categorized into subtypes according to histological classification, of which invasive squamous ...

purpose: to explore any association between human papilloma virus (hpv) infection and ocular surface squamous neoplasia. methods: forty pathological specimens including 20 cases of conjunctival intra-epithelial neoplasia grade i (cin i) and 20 cases of cin iii and invasive squamous cell carcinoma (scc) together with 20 pterygium samples (controls) were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction (pcr...

Case Description- A 25-year old, mare, Arab horse presented to department of surgery of veterinary hospital of Shahid Chamran university of Ahvaz with the signs of breathing disorder, snoring, localized infections of the nose in the right nostril. Clinical Findings- Physical examination revealed a mass in the nasal vestibule which attached to the septum and caused partial obstruction of the nas...

A 51-yr-old man presented with an enlarged right testis for two months. The radically resected testis showed a relatively well-circumscribed ovoid mass, nearly replacing the normal architecture with central cystic changes. Microscopically, the mass was composed of ovoid shaped tumor cells of a moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). The central portion of the mass was filled wi...

background: invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva is primarily a disease of postmenopausal women and thus is rarely associated with pregnancy. case: we have reported on a young woman under 40 years old with vulvar carcinoma, which occurred during the pregnancy but optimal treatment was delayed to the postpartum period. this 37-year-old woman was diagnosed with 3x3 cm vulvar lesion, 2 we...