Hypertrophic pachymeningitis is an uncommon disorder that causes a localized or diffuse thickening of the dura mater. Recently, the possibility that IgG4-related sclerosing disease may underlie some cases of intracranial hypertrophic pachymeningitis has been suggested. We herein report the tenth case of IgG4-related intracranial hypertrophic pachymeningitis and review the previous literature. A...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has many extraintestinal manifestations. Cutaneous manifestations are usually related to the activity of the bowel disease but may have an independent course. Anyone presenting with IBD should be examined for cutaneous manifestations. Pyoderma gangrenosum is a severe painful ulcerating disease that requires moist wound management and, in the absence of secondary...

A study was conducted on 44 sibs with congenital deafness and goitre, belonging to 26 families. 1-131 uptake test was done in 38 patients and it showed that the percent increase between two successive readings was lower than in euthyroids and those with simple goitre. Perchlorate discharge test was done in 29 cases and it was established that the percentage of discharge was related to the sever...

A review of the previous histological classifications of Hodgkin's disease seems to show that they are insufficiently accurate in regard to prognosis and difficult to apply but a detailed study of a large number of cases suggests that certain criteria allow of subdivision of the disease into types. These criteria are the proportion of mature lymphocytes, the presence of plentiful mature histioc...

The screening of patients with a known primary extrathoracic malignancy for pulmonary metastasis may result in the identification of solitary or multiple pulmonary nodules. Radiologic features of these pulmonary nodules may suggest a diagnosis, but these features cannot reliably distinguish between benign and malignant etiologies. We present the case of a patient, diagnosed with carcinosarcoma ...

Background. Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) rarely results in diffuse ascites. Severe adhesive disease secondary to PID may lead to the formation of inclusion cysts and even pelvic peritoneal nodularity due to postinflammatory scarring and cause an elevation of serum CA-125 levels. The constellation of these findings may mimic an ovarian neoplasm. Case. We report a case of a 22-year-old femal...

A case of telangiectatic focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) was detected at birth and was surgically removed. Grossly, the lesion was a solitary nodule and showed vague nodularity, appearing as an adenoma-like mass with fine fibrous septa, but having no macroscopic scar. On microscopic scale, the mass typically had neither fibrous central scar nor hyperplastic nodules different from the usual FNHs...

Leiomyoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumours take first place among mesenchymal tumours of the oesophagus, where tumours of peripheral nerve origin are rarely seen. Schwann and enterochromaffi n cell proliferation occur in neurogenous hyperplasia, an entity observed in the appendix which has not been reported in the oesophagus in the medical literature. Oesophagogastroscopy of a 58-year-old w...

BACKGROUND Pancreatic intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) are a subset of ductal cell tumors with potential for malignancy. Because it is difficult to predict whether and when they will become malignant, management and resection are widely debated. CASE 1 A 70-year-old male with a 1-year history of epigastric pain was found to have pancreas divisum with a dominant 2.4 cm multicys...