background & objectives: prognosis of thyroid papillary cancer is quite well long lasting, so a 10- year survival is observed in more than 90% cases. in this study, rate of incidence of thyroid papillary cancer in contralateral lobe was assessed among patients who had a surgical thyroidectomy re-operation. materials & methods: in this retrospective study, we examined 82 patients diagnos...

Background & objectives: Prognosis of thyroid papillary cancer is quite well long lasting, so a 10- year survival is observed in more than 90% cases. In this study, rate of incidence of thyroid papillary cancer in contralateral lobe was assessed among patients who had a surgical thyroidectomy re-operation. Materials & Methods: In this retrospective study, we examined 82 patients diagnosed with...

Intracranial meningiomas continue to challenge our best clinical efforts to eliminate them once discovered and deemed appropriate for treatment. Malignant meningiomas constitute 10% to 15% of all meningiomas and limited information exists regarding adjuvant treatment. The external whole brain irradiation is recommended. Traditional chemotherapy has proven ineffective; thus, new chemotherapeutic...

Idiopathic Hypereosinophilic Syndrome (IHES) is a rare disease that can be difficult to diagnose as the differential is broad. This disease can cause significant morbidity and mortality if left untreated. Our patient is a 17-year-old adolescent female who presented with nonspecific symptoms of abdominal pain and malaise. She was incidentally found to have hypereosinophilia of 16,000 on complete...

Intracranial metastases from carcinoma are common , occurring in up to 24% of cancer patients at autopsy [1]. Typically, intracranial metastatic disease is characterized by multiple intracerebral mass lesions near the gray-white junction with surrounding edema. Diffuse involvement of the brain without dominant mass lesions may occur with leptomeningeal spread of primary brain tumors, Iymphoprol...

Anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy (AION) is the most frequent cause of unilateral papillary edema in patients over 45 years of age. Two main entities can be differentiated in AION: the non-arteritic form (NAION) which constitutes 96% of cases and has an estimated incidence in the USA of 2.3– 10.2 cases for every 100,000 inhabitants1; and the arteritic form (AAION), considered to be an additio...

BACKGROUND The histologic diagnosis of early mycosis fungoides (MF) and its distinction from inflammatory dermatoses is challenging, owing to the overlap of several features. AIMS 1) To assess the efficacy of histologic criteria to diagnose early MF, 2) to study their utility in differentiating inflammatory mimics of MF. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed slides from 50 cases clinically/hi...

Aeromonas hydrophila is a facultatively anaerobic, asporogenous gram-negative rod that has often been regarded as an opportunistic pathogen in hosts with impairment of a local or general defense mechanism. A 68-year-old alcoholic woman presented with shock and gangrene on the right arm. At first, her clinical presentations were severe painful erythematous swelling that worsened within a few hou...