= Abstract = Review of 8 cases of heterotopic lacrimal gland tissue in epibulbar conjunctival region disclosed frequent mixture of pilosebaceous structure, adipose tissue, smooth muscle. etc. The term complex choristoma appears appropriate to designate a mixture of this variety, although each element can be predominant in a single lesion. Complex choristoma containing lacrimal gland was commonl...

Introduction: The presence of salivary heterotopic tissue is uncommon and even more rarely neoplasms arise from aberrant salivary gland tissue. The finding of a benign mixed tumour (pleomorphic adenoma) in heterotopic salivary tissue along the anterior border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, in the upper neck, is extremely rare. Case Report: We present the fourth case in adults patientsof ect...

CONTEXT Heterotopic pancreas of the gallbladder is an extremely rare entity, especially when pancreatic tissue appears histologically with an exclusively exocrine structure. CASE REPORT We report the case of a 35-year-old man who presented with symptoms of acalculous gallbladder disease with high levels of amylasuria. Immunohistochemical analysis of the surgical specimen of the cholecystectom...

Heterotopic striated muscle tissue was found in the myometrium of a 50-year-old Japanese woman with myoma uteri. It is suggested that the tissue originated in a differentiation of stromal cells in the myometrium. Susumu Terada, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kanazawa University, School of Medicine, Kanazawa (Japan) Introduction Discovery of a wide variety of heterotopic tissues in the...

CONTEXT Pancreatic heterotopia in itself is rare in the colon and to the best of our knowledge a neoplasm arising in a heterotopic tissue in the colon has not been reported. We herein report a pancreatic cystic neoplasm arising from heterotopic pancreatic tissue in colon. CASE REPORT A 44-year-old lady presented with a history of lower abdominal colic, associated with mucoid loose stools 10-1...

Heterotopic ossification of the xiphoid process is extremely rare, with only three cases previously reported. However, the surgical pathology for postoperative elongation of the xiphoid process after abdominal surgery has not yet been reported. We report a case of the postoperative elongation of the xiphoid process, 8 years after abdominal surgery for traumatic hemoperitoneum in a 53-year-old m...