Sclerosing hemangioma of the lung is extremely rare.  Herein, a case of sclerosing hemangioma of the lung in a 44-year-old woman is reported.  On admission, the patient complained of pain in the left lower neck and upper chest.  Chest x-ray revealed a mass in lingular lobe of the left lung.  The patient underwent surgery and a mass was removed through left posterolateral thoracotomy.  Pathologi...

Giant lipomas are benign soft tissue tumors found rarely in the neck and are still rarer in the anterior part of the neck. A 70-year-old male patient was presented with a huge swelling measuring 35 cm in maximum dimension, in the front of the neck, reaching up till the umbilicus. The swelling was painless, slow growing and acquired the huge size in approximately 20 years. Ultrasound and CT scan...

Introduction: Desmoid tumors are very rare, benign fibrous neoplasms arise from the musculoaponeurotic structures throughout the body.   Case Report: The patient was a   seven-year old boy with a large mandibular mass growing over a period of six months. His CT-scan showed a large mass, 13 cm in diameter in the cheek area extending to the neck and trachea. Biopsy was compatible with desmoid fib...

congenital or neonatal rhabdomyosarcoma is a rare entity, usually presenting as masses in the head and neck region as well as genitourinary tract. the embryonal variant is the most common type occurring in infancy. this is a case of congenital rhabdomyosarcoma with a huge forearm mass, with metastatic discrete nodules in the soft tissues of the neck and scapular region, resembling a ‘blueberry ...

background: we aimed to evaluate the effect of body weight and body mass index (bmi) on bone mineral density (bmd) in healthy postmenopausal iranian women.    material and methods: two hundred postm­enopausal women (age between 51 and 69 years) who had presented to the nuclear medicine center at shariati hospital in tehran, iran between april 2012 and august 2013 were included in this cross sec...

This article presents a case of Behcet's Disease (BD) with vascular involvement of the neck, which mimicks a metastatic neck mass in the initial presentation. A 58-year-old man presented with dysphagia, weight loss, bulging on the lateral wall of the left pyriform sinus, and a firm and fixated neck mass suggestive of metastasis. Computed tomography of the neck demonstrated a solid mass, around ...

fewer than 15% of lipomas occur in the head and neck. lipomas of the larynx are very rare benign laryngeal tumors (0.6%). to date less than 100 case of laryngeal lipoma have been reported in the literature.clinical manifestation include progressive horseness, dyspnea, and even dysphagia. in the direct exam smooth or pedunculated mass is seen in the larynx and sometimes if tumor is large enough ...

Carotid body tumours are slow-growing hypervascular lesions arising from nonchromaffin cells within the neural crest in the region of the carotid bifurcation.' They are also referred to as paragangliomas and it is well documented that they may be multiple.2 These lesions have characteristic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features that permit accurate diagnosis and precise definition of tumour...

introduction: desmoid tumors are very rare, benign fibrous neoplasms arise from the musculoaponeurotic structures throughout the body.   case report: the patient was a   seven-year old boy with a large mandibular mass growing over a period of six months. his ct-scan showed a large mass, 13 cm in diameter in the cheek area extending to the neck and trachea. biopsy was compatible with desmoid fib...