Septal, reticular, nodular, reticulonodular, ground-glass, crazy paving, cystic, ground-glass with reticular, cystic with ground-glass, decreased and mosaic attenuation pattern characterise interstitial lung diseases on high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT). Occasionally different entities mimic each other, either because they share identical HRCT findings or because of superimposition of ...

Diffuse pulmonary ossification is a rare entity of characterized by diffuse small bone fragments in lung tissue. Two types are described: ‘nodular’ and ‘dendriform’. Living cases are rarely encountered; most are diagnosed at autopsy. A 29-year-old man had a moderate chest pain ongoing for two weeks was referred to our hospital with bilateral, multifocal, diffuse calcified nodular densities on c...

Mycetoma is an infectious, noncontagious disease caused by free-living bacteria (actinomycetoma) or fungi (eumycetoma) that are traumatically implanted into the body.1 In humans, the hand and foot are the most commonly affected sites and involvement of the abdominal wall or viscera is rare.1–3 Causal agents of mycetoma produce organized aggregates of bacteria or fungal hyphae called grains in a...

Background: Cirrhosis is a dynamic process starts after sustained inflammation, followed by necrosis of liver cells and fibrosis that occur as normal wound healing response then nodular formation eventually lead to hepatic dysfunction. Aim objectives: Study the effect cirrhosis on cerebral cortex subcortical pathways using VEP, Comparison between different VEP check sizes in detection early enc...

Diagnosis: Nodular erythema elevatum diutinum (nEED). The development of disseminated, dark, purpuric skin nodules in HIV-infected patients is usually suspicious for Kaposi sarcoma or bacillary angiomatosis [1, 2]. In the present case, a diagnosis of nEED was made on the basis of the clinical presentation and histological findings characteristic for nEED— namely, a nodular accumulation of histi...

Liver fibrosis is a wound-healing process that happens in almost patients with ongoing chronic liver injury. For instance, patients surviving acute liver failure do not undergo scar change despite a plenty of fibrogenic stimuli, unless chronic liver injury follows. Moreover, even liver fibrosis related to certain kind of sustained liver injury is often reversible. The reason for fibrosis revers...

Caplan (1953) suggested for the first time in Great Britain that some cases of rheumatoid arthritis amongst coalminers with pneumoconiosis can be recognized from a characteristic chest x-ray appearance. An epidemiological investigation of this new syndrome showed that this nodular lung fibrosis (Fig. 1, opposite), was associated with rheumatoid arthritis in more than 50 per cent. of cases; it a...

INTRODUCTION Authors describe human schistosomal granuloma in late chronic phase, from the morphological and evolutionary viewpoints. METHODS The study was based on a histological analysis of two fragments obtained from a surgical biopsy of peritoneum and large intestine of a 42-year-old patient, with a pseudotumoral form mimicking a peritoneal carcinomatosis associated to the schistosomiasis...

LETTER This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We have read with great interest the article by Na et al. [1]. Dystrophic macrocalc...

although the majority of mesenchymal lesions of the gastrointestinal tract are neoplastic in nature, but nonneoplastic reactive processes may also involve the gastrointestinal tract and mesentery. some more aggressive neoplasms located in same area, such as fibromatosis or gastrointestinal stromal  tumors  may  be  cause  of  diagnostic  confusion.  reactive  nodular  fibrous  pseudo  tumor (rn...