Synovial sarcoma is a well-recognized malignant mesenchymal neoplasm. Primary retroperitoneal synovial sarcoma is extremely rare and has poor prognosis. There are sparse reports in the literature on the secretory synovial sarcomas. In this report, we present the case of a patient with retroperitoneal synovial sarcoma who presented with recurrent attacks of hypoglycaemia.

Cystic nephroma is a rare renal neoplasm which is usually benign histologically. We report a case of a 42-year-old woman with cystic nephroma arising from the lower pole of the right kidney with microscopic foci of sarcomatous stroma. Preoperative sonogram and CT scan were performed. Pathologic study revealed a cystic nephroma with foci of primitive, mesenchymal, undifferentiated, embryonal typ...

The ancient schwannoma is a rare variant of a neurilemoma with a course typical of a slow-growing benign neoplasm. Histologically, it can be confused with a malignant mesenchymal tumor because of increased cellularity, nuclear pleomorphism, and hyperchromatism. Despite the degree of nuclear atypia, mitotic figures are absent. We describe the clinical and histopathologic features of an ancient s...

Malignant glomus tumor, or glomangiosarcoma, is a very rare mesenchymal neoplasm that, when seen, occurs in visceral organs. Despite having histologic features of malignancy, these tumors usually do not metastasize. However, when metastasis occurs, this disease is often fatal. Our report presents the case of a 59-year-old female patient with a highly aggressive and widely metastatic glomus tumo...

stromal tumor that develops from gastro-intestinal (GI) mesenchymal cells from the esophagus to the rectum. Before 1990, most investigators thought these mesencgymal cell tumor to be the neoplasm from smooth muscle of gastrointestinal tract, and considered that these tumors were one kind of leiomyoma, leomyosarcoma or leiomyoblastoma. With the advent of immuno-chemical staining and ultra-struct...

Solitary fibrous tumor is an uncommon mesenchymal neoplasm. Liver is a rare location of this tumor. We report a case of hepatic solitary fibrous tumor in a 56-year-old female, who presented with right upper abdominal pain. An extended right hepatectomy was performed. Histopathological and immunohistochemical examination revealed solitary fibrous tumor of the liver.

Solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) is an uncommon mesenchymal neoplasm sometimes found in the orbit. We report a case of an aggressive orbital SFT with enlarged feeding vessels that was successfully resected immediately after transarterial embolization with Onyx (ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer). To our knowledge, this is the first report showing the histopathology of Onyx embolization material in a...

Infiltrating lipoma is an uncommon mesenchymal neoplasm that characteristically infiltrates adjacent tissues and tends to recur after excision. This type of lipoma is extremely rare in the head and neck region. We report a case of a giant infiltrating lipoma of the face, studied with CT and MR imaging.

Leiomyosarcoma is a malignant mesenchymal neoplasm deriving from the smooth muscle cells. Primary hepatic leiomyosarcoma is very rare. Its onset is always during middle and old age. Herein, we present a case of primary hepatic leiomyosarcoma in a 5-month-old girl who may be the youngest patient reported in the known published English literature.

A case of a benign clear cell ('sugar') tumour of the lung in a 61-year-old woman is presented. Characteristic routine histological features are provided and problems concerning differential diagnosis are discussed. Immunohistochemical stainings for the intracytoplasmatic intermediate filament proteins keratin and vimentin in our patient suggest a mesenchymal origin for this rare pulmonary neop...