OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the strong association of diabetic mastopathy or sclerosing lymphocytic lobulitis with type 1 diabetes mellitus by studying appropriate control groups and to describe risk factors and natural history of the disorder. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of four groups of patients conducted at a setting tertiary care medical center...

Aims: To review current issues in the diagnosis and treatment of primary sclerosing cholangitis. Methods: search of PubMed using the terms “primary sclerosing cholangitis”, “PSC”, “cholangitis” and “cholestasis”, as well as by review of current guidelines from the major international liver societies. Results: Primary sclerosing cholangitis is still a challenging condition to diagnose and manage...

BACKGROUND Reports of sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation in the pediatric population are rare. CASE CHARACTERISTICS The 3-year-old child was injured in a car accident and then diagnosed with sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation. The patient underwent exploratory surgery with partial splenectomy including total excision of the tumor mass. OUTCOME Neither recurrence nor me...

BACKGROUND Sclerosing mesenteritis is a non-neoplastic inflammatory disease that occurs in the bowel mesentery. Distinguishing sclerosing mesenteritis from neoplasms may be difficult because of the clinical and radiographic similarities between the two disease entities. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of sclerosing mesenteritis mimicking peritoneal metastases of colorectal carcinoma. A 73-...

PURPOSE To examine the mammography and ultrasonography findings of patients who have a final histopathological diagnosis of sclerosing adenosis after breast biopsy, and to evaluate the follow-up results of patients who underwent core needle biopsies. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-six of the 723 patients who underwent breast biopsy in our institution were diagnosed with sclerosing adenosis on ...

INTRODUCTION Sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma is a rare but distinct variant of fibrosarcoma that not only presents as a deep-seated mass on the limbs and neck but can also occur adjacent to the fascia or peritoneum, as well as the trunk and spine. We report the case of an intra-abdominal sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma, which to best of the authors' knowledge has not been described prev...

BACKGROUND Clinically, sclerosing thoracic disc herniation is a disease with high surgical risk and various complications. Eggshell procedure is a surgical method used by surgeons to treat sclerosing thoracic disc herniation. The aim of this study was to report a modified eggshell procedure to treat sclerosing thoracic disc herniation. METHODS Medical records of 25 patients with sclerosing th...

It is suspected that the pathogenesis of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is still unknown, although it has become recognized as a distinct entity worldwide. The characteristic findings in most cases of AIP can be summarized as follows: (i) mild abdominal symptoms, usually without acute attacks of pancreatitis; (ii) occasional existence of obstructive jaundice; (iii) increased levels of serum gamm...

Introduction: Mucoepidermoid carcinoma represents one of the most common malignant salivary gland tumors.However, the sclerosing morphologic variant is extremely rare with only 23 reported cases in the English-language literature since it was discovered in 1987. Case Report: Herein, we describe another case that was diagnosed in a 25-year-old woman presenting with a posterior auricular mass, ...