ampullary tumor is a rare cancer. these patients most commonly present with obstructive jaundice but sometimes disease appear with uncommon signs. this report is an example of such cases. our case is a 53 year old man who presented with recurrent fever and chills and iron deficiency anemia and has been misdiagnosed for two years. the proper diagnosis occurred when the patient showed abnormal li...

malignant melanoma of the esophagus is a rare tumor with poor prognosis. the survival of patients is generally less than one year after diagnosis. a case of primary malignant melanoma of the esophagus is presented, who after radical resection of the tumor, is in excellent health, with no evidence of disease 14 months after surgery.

neuroendocrine tumors are most often located in the intestine and lungs but they can arise from other areas of the body. limited data is available on epidemiology and clinical patterns of neuroendocrine tumors in iran. we analyzed medical records of 34 patients from 2 cancer centers (emam khomeini hospital and omid charity cancer center) in west azarbaijan province of iran with neuroendocrine t...

hemangioma of the ovary is reported in a 66 years old woman. vascular tumors of the female genital tract are rare, especially those of the ovaiy. most cases are discovered incidentally. the case presented here was missed clinically.

primitive  neuroectodermal  tumor  (pnet)  of  kidney  is  an  extremely  rare  renal  neoplasm  with only about fifty reported cases in literature.  presumably,of neural crest origin, these tumors behave  aggressively  and  carry  a  poor prognosis.  we  report  a  case  of  22-year  old  female  patient complaining of left loin pain with recurrent hematuria for last 3 months. on clinical exam...

introduction hemangiomas are the most common benign tumor of infancy that can occur anywhere in the body. intramuscular hemangiomas (imh) are accounting for approximately 1% of all cases and the muscles of extremities are the most common sites. because of scarcity and variable clinical features of these tumors, we decided to report a case of imh in the upper lip mucosa. case report the patient ...

background: gbm is the most common and malignant astrocity tumor and it is persistent to common treatment so, these patients have a very low survival. several researchers around the world, including iran, have been investigated gbm-cell line in vitro. however in vivo studies have not been fulfilled. methods : as standard cell line (u-87mg) derived from human gbm and total gbm tumor derived from...

Abstract Introduction/Objective Ewing sarcoma is a cancer involving the bones or tissue around bones. It second most common malignant bone tumour comprising 10-15% of all primary tumours, commonly affecting children and young adults. can also be seen in adults also. Males are more affected then females. Any but lower extremity, pelvis, upper axial skeleton ribs, face cases. Similar histology tu...

giant cell tumors (gct) are benign tumors with potential for aggressive behavior and capacity to metastasize. although rarely lethal, benign bone tumors may be associated with a substantial disturbance of the local bony architecture that can be particularly troublesome in peri-articular locations. its histogenesis remains unclear. it is characterized by a proliferation of mononuclear stromal ce...

introduction: inflammatory myofibroblastic pseudotumors are initially described in the lung and various extrapulmonary sites such as the orbits, palatine tonsils, ears, gingiva, pterygomaxillary space, and periodontal tissues. these tumors rarely involve the larynx and predilection to the glottis occurs in an indolent manner.   case report this case describes a laryngeal myofibroblastic tumor i...