INTRODUCTION Lupus vulgaris is the most common form of cutaneous tuberculosis. It may easily be overlooked if a proper differential diagnosis is omitted. CASE PRESENTATION A 46-year-old Turkish woman presented with a 42-year history of erythamatous plaque on her left arm. Ziehl-Neelsen and periodic acid-Schiff stains did not show any acid-fast bacilli. Culture from a biopsy specimen was negat...

UNLABELLED Reports on the sensitivity of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the diagnosis of lymph node tuberculosis (TB) show divergent results. We evaluated the accuracy of the Roche Amplicor Mycobacterium tuberculosis PCR test with lymph node aspirate and biopsy samples. METHODS The study was conducted at a public reference hospital in Lima, Peru. From the period of January 2003 to Januar...

We evaluated the validity and accuracy of cytomorphology and multiparametric flow cytometry (C-FCM) in diagnosing oncohematologic disease in 223 consecutive lymph node biopsy specimens from patients with lymphadenopathy, from 2004 to 2007. C-FCM and histopathologic studies were interpreted independently by hematologists and pathologists, respectively. C-FCM detected neoplastic disorders in 133 ...

Carcinoma cuniculatum is a rarely occurring, low-grade variant of squamous cell carcinoma most commonly found in the forefoot. It should be suspected in the differential diagnosis for chronic nonhealing verrucous wounds. The initial diagnosis of carcinoma cuniculatum is difficult and often delayed and can require repeated histopathologic evaluation by an experienced pathologist. In many cases, ...

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a hemopoietic malignancy of the bone marrow that rarely invades the sinonasal area. If infiltration of paranasal sinuses occurs, it may lead to rhinosinusitis and orbital complications that need aggressive treatment. In this report, a 26-year-old male patient who had a history of ALL and had one relapse, suffered from rapid progression of right periorbital ...

Vernix caseosa peritonitis is a rare complication caused by inflammatory response to amniotic fluid spilled into the maternal peritoneal cavity. Most cases occur after cesarean section. We discuss herein two patients, aged 33 and 29 years, who presented with vernix caseosa peritonitis seven to nine days after a cesarean delivery. Laparotomy was performed and it revealed neither uterine rupture ...

Colon cancer is currently a serious public health problem. The most important action in reducing morbidity and mortality associated with colorectal the introduction of screening programs including colonoscopy. use modern acquired endoscopy brings accuracy optical diagnosis closer to that histopathologic diagnosis. review provides an overview existing classifcations approaches which are used Rus...

OBJECTIVE Cytological examination of pleural fluids is a fast, efficient and non-invasive diagnostic method. Identification of malignant effusions bears critical importance in treatment and prognosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of cytopathologic diagnoses in pleural effusions and the cyto-histopathologic correlation rates. MATERIAL AND METHOD A total of 298 pleu...

Introduction: Infarction is a very rare complication of fibroadenoma. Diagnosis such situation not easy. Case Presentation: 23-year-old woman with painful tumor the right breast mild erythema at periareolar region. Breast ultrasound shows heterogeneous lesion 31×30 mm, in retroareolar well-defined borders, and does present vascular flow inside. Antibiotic treatment was administered without impr...