Pseudo-tumoral lesions of the cervix implies some reactive, non-neoplastic changes (metaplasia, hyperplasia, inflammation) that, occasionally, are wrong interpreted as precancerous or malign lesions. Even some can present architectural or cytological abnormal aspects, these are different from the one noted in carcinomas or the precursor lesions of carcinomas. Them recognition is indispensable i...

A 73-years old man was admitted on March 1997, complaining of asthenia, muscle weakness, dry cough, bronchospasm and paresthesis of arms and legs. A WBC count was 13.5 x 109/I with 44% of mature eosinophils. A blood test performed 7 months earlier revealed similar values. The neurological diagnosis was an axonal peripheral polyneuropathy (motor and sensitive). Stool examinations, IgE dosage, CA...

BACKGROUND The development of endocrine tumours of the duodenopancreatic area (ETDP) is thought to be slow, but their natural history is not well known. The aim of this study was to determine the factors that influence survival of patients with ETDP. PATIENTS/METHODS Eighty two patients with ETDP (44 non-functioning tumours, 23 gastrinomas, seven calcitonin-secreting tumours, four glucagonoma...

In this report, we describe the case of a 67-year-old woman with metastatic pancreatic uterine leiomyosarcoma. She underwent a total hysterectomy and adnexectomy in December 2009. The resected uterine specimen was characterized as a leiomyosarcoma. The patient was free of disease until November 2010, when three pulmonary tumoral lesions detected by follow-up chest computed tomography were diagn...

We report a case of a 75-year-old female with bilateral thigh pain for several years secondary to soft tissue calcification. Massive calcinosis of the soft tissues is a unique, but not uncommon, radiographic finding. On the contrary, tumoral calcinosis is a rare familial disease. The term tumoral calcinosis has been overly used to describe any massive collection of periarticular calcification. ...

We report a case of a 75-year-old female with bilateral thigh pain for several years secondary to soft tissue calcification. Massive calcinosis of the soft tissues is a unique, but not uncommon, radiographic finding. On the contrary, tumoral calcinosis is a rare familial disease. The term tumoral calcinosis has been overly used to describe any massive collection of periarticular calcification. ...

Tumoral calcinosis is an uncommon disorder causing single or multiple circumscribed calcified masses in periarticular connective tissue. Lesions are common around hip, elbow and shoulder joints. Right subscapular region is a relative uncommon location for tumoral calcinosis. Here we report a case of chronic renal failure under hemodialysis for 10 years. The patient complained a growing mass at ...

We recently described (Arch Ophthalmol 1988; 106:725-6) the presence of unique calcific lesions in the eyelids of a young woman with a history of hyperphosphatemic tumoral calcinosis. Here we document that no immediate family members showed similar lesions and that none was hyperphosphatemic. Dental roentgenography revealed characteristic abnormalities in the patient that confirmed the clinical...

Introduction. Tumoral calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystal deposition disease (CPPDCD), also known as tophaceous calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease (CPDD), is a tumorlike lesion, and it should be distinguished from usual CPDD that causes severe joint inflammation and arthralgia. A case of tumoral CPPDCD of the wrist joint that required differentiation from synovial osteochondrom...