We present a case of primary benign intraosseous meningioma in the sphenoid bone mimicking malignancy. A 44-year-old female patient who had a protruding right eye and headache came to our hospital. MRI showed a large, destructive, heterogeneously well-enhancing soft tissue mass in the right sphenoid bone suggesting malignancy. (18)F-FDG PET/CT showed a hypermetabolic mass in the same site with ...

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Objective: To present a pictorial review on central mucoepidermoid carcinoma.
 Case report: Central carcinoma (CMEC), also known as intraosseous (IMEC), is an extremely rare disease (less than 2-4% of all MEC). However, CMEC the most frequent malignant salivary gland tumour found in locations. Due to this unusual location, diagnosis can be challenging. Therefore, often mistaken for other o...

Aim Cyst-like lesions in the mandible rarely develop into malignancies, and reported incidence is between 0.3% 2%. The present study describes a rare case of primary intraosseous squamous cell carcinoma arising from an odontogenic cyst. Materials Methods An 80-year-old male was referred to Trieste University Maggiore Hospital (Trieste, Italy), with acute pain left retromolar area. initial exami...

Primary fallopian tube carcinoma is a rare tumor that histologically and clinically resembles epithelial ovarian cancer. Here we introduce a case of tubal carcinoma in a postmenopausal woman. The diagnosis of primary fallopian tube carcinoma is rarely considered preoperatively and is usually first appreciated by the pathologist. Because of low frequency of tubal carcinoma, there are few systemi...