IMPORTANCE Benign granulomatous disease may mimic malignant disease in the evaluation of mediastinal or pulmonary lesions. However, histoplasmosis as a cause of cervical lymphadenopathy is relatively rare. We report the first case of Histoplasma infection mimicking malignant adenopathy discovered during diagnostic thyroid lobectomy. OBSERVATIONS A 2.5-cm, calcified, right paratracheal lymph n...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and most common etiologies of scalp scaling in infants and prepubertal children and the specificity of head and neck lymphadenopathy for the diagnosis of tinea capitis associated with scalp scaling. DESIGN/METHODS A cross-sectional study of 300 children, 200 from an urban general pediatric practice and 100 from 2 urban pediatric dermatology practices, was...

Choledochal cysts are associated with abnormal pancreatobiliary ductal union (APBDU) in about 90% of cases. 9 We could not demonstrate whether the present case was associated with APBDU or not. We did not perform an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography because the diagnosis had been made on MRCP, and demonstration of APBDU could not have changed the management decision and could have ...

The case: In May 2010, a 71-year-old woman not on hormone replacement therapy presented with uterine bleeding. Endometrial biopsy was foiled by severe cervical stenosis. Dilation & curettage revealed complex hyperplasia with atypia, focal clear-cell features, and endocervicitis. Endometrial intraepithelial carcinoma was suspected. Frozen section analysis from hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo...

We describe a rare case of Castleman disease associated de novo with Hodgkin lymphoma. The incidence of Castleman disease is rare; only a few studies have described it in de novo association with Hodgkin lymphoma. The patient described here complained of unique evolutionary axillary adenopathy. A positron-emission tomography/computed tomography scan revealed hypermetabolic activity in this area...