brain hydatid cyst constitutes one of the leading causes of cranial mass in the endemic region, especially among the children. symptoms of the disease are associated with rising of intracranial pressure and focal neurological deficit. surgical excision of the cyst is essential to treatment. here we present a 19 yr-old male livings in ardabil, northwest of iran, referred to neurosurgery clinic i...

Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) increases the risk for mortality in critically ill children. It occurs in association with a wide variety of medical and surgical diagnoses. Management of ACS involves recognizing the development of intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) by intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) monitoring, treating the underlying cause, and preventing progression to ACS by lowering IAP...

This report describes an 18-year-old woman presenting with abdominal distension, left flank pain, and hypertension. She had a huge abdominal mass, diagnosed as a mesenteric desmoid-type fibromatosis, causing compression of the left external iliac vessels and ureter, as well as elevated renin concentration and hypertension. After surgical removal of the mass, all signs improved including hyperte...

gardner's syndrome is an autosomal dominant inherited disorder. familial polyposis of the colon, osteomas, hypertrophy of the retinal-pigmented layer and a multitude of soft tissue tumors are characteristic features. the syndrome may be presented with colonic or extracolonic symptoms. a 75-year-old male patient presented to al-zahra clinic with diffuse abdominal pain. an abdominal surgery was p...

A 38-year-old Iranian woman was found to have a huge ovarian cystic mass. Her presenting symptom was vague abdominal pain and severe abdominal distention. She underwent laparotomy and after surgical removal, the mass was found to be mucinous cystadenoma on histology.

Primary mesenteric liposarcomas are very rare neoplasms. The authors report a case of mesenteric liposarcoma recently observed. The patient presented with a history of dyspeptic syndrome, meteorism and abdominal pain associated with a change in bowel habit and constipation. On physical examination there was a large, well-circumscribed, abdominal mass. Computed tomography revealed an abdominal, ...

introduction hemangiopericytomas (hpcs) are rare neoplasms which account for approximately 1% of primary vascular tumors. case presentation we report a 73 years old woman with vague abdominal pain who did not have further significant symptoms and was diagnosed to have retroperitoneal hemangiopericytoma. discussion the tumor was initially diagnosed by ultrasound evaluation. mri showed a lobulate...