Splenic abscess is not a common condition and actinomyces as a cause is very rarely reported. We report a case of actinomycosis of spleen in a 12 year-old boy, with a few days history of abdominal pain and fever. Past medical history was not significant. Due to sever abdominal pain and tenderness condition laparatomy was done that a small perforated area was seen on hilum of spleen, so splenect...

Introduction: Burkitt lymphoma is an aggressive subtype of Hodgkin lymphoma with a doubling time of 25 hours. It is characterized by a MYC gene coding alteration which results from a translocation of chromosome 8 on the MYC gene locus and immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus (IGH) on chromosome 14. Even though HIV infection is associated to an increased risk of Burkitt lymphoma, th...

Chylothorax is an unusual complication of various malignant neoplasms, generally lymphomas. The few reported cases of chylothorax with gastric and other abdominal malignancies have involved large abdominal masses with prominent adenopathy and chylous ascites. We describe a patient in whom chylothorax was the presenting manifestation of an adenocarcinoma with probable gastric primary, developing...

Peritoneal malignancies are a rare occurrence in children, often metastatic and rarely originating primarily in the peritoneum. The imaging findings of these entities in the pediatric age have not been recently reviewed or they have been previously described or depicted mostly as part of articles discussing each entity separately. This is a review of the most relevant peritoneal malignancies in...

The introduction of combined CT with the functional imaging modality of PET has been an advancement in diagnostic imaging that has been welcomed by radiologists, nuclear medicine specialists, and oncologists. PET/CT has been used successfully in the diagnosis, staging, monitoring of response to therapy, and surveillance of various malignancies in adult patients (1,2). However, the role of PET/ ...

OBJECTIVE To review the causes and sonographic appearance of pathologic processes that result in abdominal pain in the pediatric patient and to understand the use and limitations of abdominal sonography in the acute pediatric abdomen. METHODS A pictorial review of cases is presented. RESULTS Sonography in conjunction with color and pulsed Doppler imaging is a valuable tool in the evaluation...

Describe the types of malignancies commonly 1. found in children and adolescents with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS. Present an overview of the following HIV2. associated pediatric and adolescent cancers: nonHodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), Kaposi sarcoma (KS), leiomyosarcoma, cervical carcinoma, and anal cancer. Discuss the clinical manifestations and treatment 3. of the various HIV-associa...