We present a 77-year-old male, smoker of 50 packs/year, with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and atrial fibrillation. He was admitted to the emergency because of progressive dysphagia for solids of three months duration and, in the last month, with liquid weight loss and anorexia. Endoscopy detected an exophytic neoformation in the middle third of the esophagus causing six centimet...

There are close to 70,000 new cases of primary central nervous system tumors diagnosed annually in the United States. Meningiomas, gliomas, nerve sheath tumors and pituitary tumors account for 85% of them. There is abundant literature on these commonly occurring tumors but data from the literature on infrequently encountered tumors such as atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor, choroid plexus carcin...

urethral leiomyomas are rare begin mesenchymal tumors that arise from the smooth muscle of the urethra. most reported cases in the literature have occurred in women of child bearing age. these tumors present with a variety of symptoms. excision is curative however occasional cases of relapse have been described. here we describe a case of a female teenager who presented with intermittent urinar...

  This is a rare case report of bilateral Schwannoma in lower poles of both kindeys in a 36 year old diabetic man.preoperative radiographic evaluations suggested the presence of two solid retroperitoneal tumors attached to the lower poles of both kindeys without any regional or distant extension.the final diagnosis was confirmed by histological and immonohistological studies.

Epitheloid osteosarcoma (carcinosarcoma) of the bone is a rare malignant tumor and only a few cases have been reported in the literature. In this study, we report two cases of osseous carcinosarcoma (epitheloid osteosarcoma) with immunohistochemical studies.  The morphological and immunohistochemical data in these two cases support the theory of divergent differentiation of primitive, uncommitt...

  Ganglion cysts are the most common wrist tumors, and 60 -70% originate dorsally from the scapholunate interval.  Ossification of these lesions is exceedingly rare, with only one such lesion located in the finger reported in the literature. We present a case of an ossified dorsal wrist ganglion in a 68-year-old woman.  

Primary myeloid sacrom (MS) is a rare tumor and even more rare in multiple organs with no evidence of bone marrow involvement. This report describes an unusual case of a 19-year-old male presenting scrotal MS with a history of subconjunctival MS, 5 months ago. Bone marrow biopsies showed no evidence of acute leukemia. Despite radiotherapy for first involvement and chemotherapy for second presen...

Pericardial effusion can develop in patients with acute pericarditis or association a wide variety of systemic diseases and is characterized as transudative, exudative, pyopericardium, hemopericardium. Large effusions are usually related to tuberculous neoplastic effusions. Primary pericardial tumors rare, the vast majority cases resulting from secondary tumors. may be present 7% 53% cancer cor...

   Malignant germ-cell tumors (MGCT) are rare tumors of childhood accounting for less than 3% of pediatric malignancies. Endodermal sinus tumor (EST) forms the most common histologic subtype of MGCT. The vagina is an extremely rare site for GCTs. An 8-month-old female was admitted with a short history of vaginal bleeding, and a mass protruding from the vagina. She was pale and a mass was palpab...

Introduction: Malignant mesenchymal tumors of the larynx are rare. One type of malignant mesenchymal tumor is synovial sarcoma with unknown histogenesis, which occurs predominantly in the lower extremities of young adults. The head and neck region is a relatively rare location. There are few cases of malignant mesenchymal tumors with laryngeal localization in literature.  Case Report: In this r...