A 60-year-old man was admitted to our clinic with dyspnea, hemoptesis, anuria, nephritic syndrome, and a positive myeloperoxidase antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody titer. He was diagnosed with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis due to Wegener granulomatosis, microscopic polyangiitis, or drug induction. Unexpectedly, histopathologic examination of the kidney biopsy speci...

A 72-year-old woman presented with painful proptosis of the right eye and a large destructive tumour of the middle cranial fossa. A diagnosis of IgDK multiple myeloma was made, based on histopathologic and immunologic studies of the biopsy. Biochemistry and bone marrow examination further confirmed the myeloma as IgDK type. The clinical, radiological, and pathological findings are presented. Th...

Introduction: Salivary gland cancer is an uncommon malignancy in the head and neck. The most common histopathologic type salivary malignancies mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC). Radiotherapy has a role malignancy, especially inoperable cases postoperative settings. Definitive or radiotherapy with without chemotherapy can improve locoregional control (LRC) patients parotid carcinoma. Case Presentat...

BACKGROUND Acute chest pain represents a common presentation at emergency department. Aortic dissection in young patients, however, is fortunately rare. METHODS We report a case of giant ascending aortic aneurysm with Stanford type A aortic dissection in an otherwise well 22-year-old male patient. Operative aortic valve and root replacement was undertaken with favourable outcome. RESULTS Hi...

Pyothorax-associated lymphoma is a relatively rare type of lymphoma that occurs in patients who have long histories of tuberculous pleuritis or induced pneumothorax. It is a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of mainly the B-cell phenotype and is strongly associated with Epstein-Barr virus infection. A majority of these cases have been reported in Japan, although some cases have occurred in Western...

Myxoinflammatory fibroblastic sarcoma (MIFS) is a rare low-grade, malignant soft tissue tumor that is usually observed in the extremities of adult patients. Magnetic resonance imaging findings for this tumor type have rarely been reported. We report a case involving the distal left femur of a middle-aged man and tumoral invasion of the bone, which, to our knowledge, has been previously describe...

Nevus lipomatosus superficialis is a rare type of connective tissue nevus. Cylindroma is a benign skin appendage tumor with a predilection for the scalp of older females. We describe the case of a 56-year-old woman with a scalp lesion demonstrating histopathologic features consistent with benign cylindroma arising within a nevus lipomatosus superficialis. To our knowledge, this lesion has not b...

We recently treated a patient who presented with hyperpigmented longitudinal stripe of the thumb nailbed which was biopsied histopathologic diagnosis onychopapilloma. have not seen o...

BACKGROUND Limited information is available regarding dermatoscopic differences between non-aggressive and aggressive types of basal cell carcinoma (BCC). OBJECTIVE To investigate dermatoscopic differences between non-aggressive and aggressive types. METHODS We evaluated 145 histopathologically confirmed BCCs from 141 patients. Histopathologic types and aggressiveness from 4 mm punch biopsy...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The vertical sleeve gastrectomy is quickly becoming a preferred bariatric operation. There is a dearth of published data about histopathologic changes in the specimens of morbidly obese patients, especially sleeve patients. The aim of this study is to add more data about the characteristics of the resected gastric specimens to the published literature. METHODS A pros...