Pigmented extramammary Paget's disease (PEMPD) is an uncommon intraepithelial adenocarcinoma and a rare variant of Paget's disease affecting skin that is rich in apocrine sweat glands such as the axilla, perianal region and vulva. It most commonly occurs in postmenopausal women and presents as a superficial pigmented scaly macule, mimicking a melanocytic lesion. The histological presentation is...

a lump in her left axilla which broke down discharging pus for a week. The discharge reappeared 10 days prior to admission to the hospital. Two days before her admission, she noticed a swelling on the left side of the left breast. On local examination, there was a sinus in the left axilla extending 3 inches deep from the skin, discharging a whitish thick fluid. Adjacent to the sinus, there was ...

The development and fate of the apocrine sweat glands in the axilla are not yet well elucidated. The development (Borsetto, 1951 (1)), the structure and function (Shelley and Hurley, 1953 (2); Rothman, 1954 (3); Montagna, 1956 (4)), and the ageing changes (Montagna, 1956a (5); Winkelmann and Hultin, 1958 (6)) of these glands are relatively well understood, but very little is known about their d...

Sir, A 63-year-old woman was referred to our institution in December 2008, with right axillary and breast swelling. Clinically, the right breast was enlarged with an ill-defined mass in the lateral half of the right breast, which appeared to be continuous with a lobulated 20cm right axillary mass [Figure 1]. There was associated swelling of the arm and dilated veins over the skin of the breast ...

This report describes a patient with a rare huge epithelioid malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST) in the left axilla. A male in his 70s was admitted to our hospital for evaluation of a growing tumor in his left axilla. The tumor was solid and immovable. Examination of a biopsy specimen resulted in a diagnosis of epithelioid MPNST. Two weeks after the biopsy was performed, the tumor g...

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INTRODUCTION Axillary nodal metastasis is very rare in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. The few cases reported in the literature all involve patients who have previously undergone either neck dissection alone, or neck dissection and radiotherapy to the neck, and subsequently develop delayed recurrences of disease, with axillary nodal involvement. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of...

Conduction velocity from spinal cord to axilla (estimated using the F wave) has been compared with conduction velocity from axilla to wrist (measured in the conventional manner) in the motor fibres of the ulnar nerve in 17 controls subjects and in 11 patients with the Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). In the patients with GBS the conduction velocity was, in general reduced to a similar extent in b...

Introduction A number of accessory muscle slip cases in the axilla arising from latissimus dorsi, pectoralis major, ribs and costal cartilages have been reported by different authors [1]. These accessory muscle slips in the axilla have been described under variety of names (e.g., chondro-epitrochlearis, dorsoepitrochlearis, etc). These variant bundles are commonly referred to as “axillary arch”...