the majority of osseous tumors of the hand are benign. the surgeon who evaluates and treats osseous tumors of the hand has to be familiar with limb anatomy, tumor biology, various presentations of the tumors and the range of treatment possibilities and their limitations. lesions in the hand more often present earlier in their course than those at other sites, just because they are more likely t...

background: in cancers of prostate, breast, oropharynx, lung, hypopharynx and skin, human tissue kallikreins has been demonstrated as a main role in these problems. there are many research works in which some human tissue kallikreins are expressed in salivary glands. in the present study, the main goal was to determine expression of human tissue kallikreins 4, 8, 10, 11 and 13 in pleomorphic ad...

Introduction: Epidemiologic data of upper extremity tumors are still few and sometimes conflicting. In our department, hand surgeons manage these tumors. Good documentation of patients’ information permitted us to make an epidemiologic study on the tumors of the upper extremity operated in our department. Methods: We retrospectively studied all the cases of upper extremity tumors operated from...

adnexal tumors (ats) are primary skin tumors with benign or rarely, malignant behavior. they have been classified based on differentiation towards hair follicle, sebaceous, apocrine or eccrine gland. few large-scale studies have focused on ats. to determine the prevalence of ats and to assess clinical and histopathological trend of ats. a retrospective descriptive study of all ats diagnosed in ...

BACKGROUND Non-melanocytic skin tumors are rarely seen in pediatric patients; although they are mostly benign, they remain to be elucidated by histopathological examination. The objective of the study was to describe the epidemiology of non-melanocytic skin tumors in children attending to our dermatology department. METHOD The histopathologic studies of all skin punch and excisional biopsies ...