introduction: child abuse is one of the major problems of today’s societies ;so in developed countries supportive laws for children have been established. obvious manifestations of physical child abuse include: skin lesions (echymosis, erosion, biting), skull fractures and injury to the visceral organs. physicians should take child abuse in their consideration whenever they encounter skin manif...

an interesting case of rare multiple hydatid of parotid, brain and kidney is reported. she is a 35-year-old married woman first referred because of a swelling in the parotid region and later for neurological manifestions. on general physical examination, an abdominal mass was felt in the right hypochondrium. these multiple space-occupying 'lesions in the brain, kidney and parotid proved to be h...

background and objective: neurofibromas occur as solitary and multiple forms. the solitary ones are extraneural and more common, histologically exhibiting spindle cells with wavy nuclei, scattered among collagen fibers. multiple neurofibromas are seen in neurofibromatosis (types i and ii), including intraneural (plexiform, cutaneous deep circumscribed) and extraneural (cutaneous, deep diffuse) ...

abstract  hypercementosis is identified by an excessive, non-neoplastic deposition of radicular cementum and is mostly presented as a solitary lesion or in rare cases as a multiple type. it usually occurs in the premolar and molar region of mandible with no sex predilection. in this paper, we reported a 57-year-old female patient with multiple radiopaque lesions affecting right maxillary second...

osteopoikilosis is a rare benign osteosclerotic bone disorder that may be misdiagnosed as skeletal metastases. here we describe a case of coincidental breast cancer and osteopoikilosis mimicking skeletal metastases. a 41-year-old woman underwent right modified radical mastectomy in april 2007. twenty-eight months after initial treatment, the patient complained of bilateral knee and foot pain. p...

99mTc-octreotide scintigraphy, performed during the following up a 58-year old man with neuroendocrine tumor demonstrated massive hepatomegaly demonstrating multiple areas of increased and decreased uptake. Due to severe hepatomegaly concurrence of any other abdominal soft tissue lesions could not be excluded. A 99mTc-sulfur colloid scan was done and thoroughly compared wi...

introduction calcifying odontogenic cyst (coc) is an uncommon odontogenic lesion, classified in two variants: the cystic variant and neoplastic (solid) variant. case presentation this case report presents multiple coc, which involved the maxillary bone and sinus in a 30-year-old man. several of these lesions were cystic, while the others were neoplastic in type, and the lesions were removed sur...