Introduction: Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH) is a very rare cause of dysphagia when it occurs in the cervical spine. It can also affect the lumbar region where it causes deformity. Case Report: In this article, a rare case of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis involving both the cervical and lumbar spine, presenting with dysphagia and spinal stiffness leading to a stoopin...

Introduction: Fibrolipoma, a subtype of lipoma is painless, well-circumscribed, slow-growing, submucosal benign adipocyte tumour. It is uncommon in the oral cavity and oropharyngeal region, with rare incidence in the retropharynx even rarest in pediatric age group.   Case Report: A very unusual case of fibrolipoma is presented in a pediatric patient, who had a huge retropharyngeal fibrolipoma a...

background : homicide is killing of a human being by another human being. various methods like strangulation, cut throat, stabbing etc may be used for homicide; however combination of two mechanisms is rare. case report: hereby we present a rare case with unexpected appearance of two different mechanisms of homicide applied over same region, wherein body of a female was referred to us with hist...

congenital undescending testis is a common anomaly of testis, but we had a rare case of ectopic testis. a 15-month-old infant was operated emergently because of left incarcerate inguinal hernia. intraoperative exploration of hernial sac revealed two ectopic testes with one spermatic cord proximally but in the middle divided to two spermatic cords in a 8 shape. there was an important point about...

pedunculated chorangioma is extremely rare type of chorangioma. to the best of our knowledge, no case has been reported in indian literature. we report one such rare case in a twenty two year old primi gravida who delivered a full term live female baby by lower section caesarian section (lscs). gross examination revealed a nodular mass attached to the placenta by a pedicle. histopathological ex...

Abstract Introduction: Extra-nodal exposition of T-cell non-hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is extremely rare, and is frequently observed in patients with immune system dysfunction. Peripheral T-cell lymphoma does not express CD56 is rare. Malignant lymphoma of the uvula is exceedingly unusual. The current study reported a case of peripheral T-cell lymphoma of the uvula in an immunecompetent patient. ...

A ten -month-old infant with Diastematomyelia, as a very rare variety of spinal dysraphism is presented in this article Routine USG in a 36 weeks pregnant woman revealed a spinal abnormality of the fetus in thoracolumbar [D12-L1] regions. At birth, examination of the newborn showed a small midline swelling and bluish discoloration of skin and scoliosis in the lumbar region. There was associated...

Background: Oculo-palato-cerebral syndrome is an extremely rare condition characterized by various features, including low-birth weight, microcephaly, cerebral atrophy, mild-to-severe developmental delay, cleft palate, persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous, microphthalmia, small hands and feet, joint laxity, and large ears with thick helices. Diagnosis of this syndrome is based on the clinic...

Cherubism is a rare inherited fibro-osseous bone disease involving mainly mandible and maxilla causing prominence in the lower portion of face. A 13 yr old male child with a swelling of lower jaw since birth had bilateral multilocular radiolucencies in posterior mandible in both X-ray and CT scan. Cytology of the swelling revealed many giant cells dispersed in the stroma which was diagnosed to ...

objective pfeiffer syndrome is as rare as apert syndrome in the western population. this condition is very rare in the asian population. at the best of our knowledge this is the first genetically proven case report from iran. the authors report with a review of literature, the case of a infant with pfeiffer syndrome, manifested by lacunar skull, ventriculomegaly, bicoronal craniosynostosis,fron...