a rare case of squamous cell carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma in maxillary sinus is presented. the patient is a 50-year-old woman presenting with a slow-progressive swelling in left side of her face that she has noticed 2 years earlier. the lesion was not painful and caused asymmetry and mild exophthalmos. microscopic examination revealed that the tumor was composed of two components partly of ...

conclusion ct scan is highly accurate in differentiating malignant pleural mesothelioma and metastatic pleural diseases. pleural thickening and thickening of interlobar fissure lead us to the diagnosis of mpm and massive free pleural effusion is more commonly seen in metastatic pleural malignancy. background malignant pleural mesothelioma (mpm) is a rare malignant neoplasm of the pleura that ty...

malignant mixed germ cell tumors,though rare overall, are the most common type of malignant ovarian neoplasms in young and adolescent girls. these tumors are rapidly growing and can metastasize. we report a case of 13-yr-old girl who presented at shkm gmc, nalhar, mewat, haryana, india in december 2013 with huge abdominal lump of a malignant mixed germ cell tumor comprising both immature terato...

reports which describe sick sinus syndrome due to malignant lymphoma have been rare and only eight cases have been reported until now. this is a case of sick sinus syndrome and superior vena cava syndrome secondary to invasion of occult malignant lymphoma of the lung in a 60 years old male. there were no symptoms or signs of malignancy before the first presentation with sick sinus syndrome. pat...

Malignant transformation of glomus tumor is exceedingly rare and most common reported in lower extremity and abdominal viscera. We could find only 6 previous case report of malignant glomus tumor in the hand. Although large and deeply located glomus tumors are considered to be malignant, evidence has shown that most of these cases were clinically benign. These lesions are better considered as g...

conclusion our preliminary results have shown that although there is some overlap between benign and malignant tumors, adding dwi, mr imaging to routine soft tissue tumor protocols may improve diagnostic accuracy. results there was only one patient with a malignant cystic tumor and was not included in the statistical analysis. the median adc values of benign and malignant tumors were 2.31 ± 1.2...

background: tumors involving the hand skeleton are rare. however, a basic knowledge of hand tumors is necessary for every clinician. this is due to the importance of distinguishing typical benign tumors from life or limb threatening malignant ones. methods: this study is a review of 99 cases of osseous hand tumors presented to the department of orthopedic surgery, imam khomeini hospital in tehr...

neuroleptic malignant syndrome (nms) is unusual but could be a lethal reaction associated with neuroleptic drugs. it occurs in almost 0.07-2.2% of patients under treatment with neuroleptics. there are some medical treatments that may also be helpful for its treatment, including dopamine agonists, muscle relaxants, and electroconvulsive therapy (ect). we present this case to alert the clinicians...

introduction: autologous stem cells have greatly influenced the treatment of a variety of malignancies including hodgkin/non-hodgkins lymphoma and acute leukemias. this is a preliminary study comparing the time of engraftment, mortality rate and cost of treatment in outpatient versus inpatient autologous stem cell transplantation (sct) in iran. patients and methods: 11 outpatients (6 hodgkin ly...