Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma (BSCC) of the uterine cervix is a rare malignancy of the female genital tract with a poorer clinical outcome than SCC of the uterine cervix. We report a case of BSCC of the uterine cervix developing rapidly in a young adult Taiwanese. A 35-year-old woman, Para 2, visited the emergency room with severe dizziness, palpitations and sudden excessive vaginal bleeding...

A multicentric epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) of the bone is reported which affected the right femur, the right patella and the right fibula of a 56-year-old man. Plain radiographs demonstrated purely lytic multicentric lesions with well-defined sclerotic borders. Computed tomography (CT) scans showed multiple osteolytic lesions in a honeycomb pattern at the epiphyseal lesion of the rig...

AIM To investigate whether presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome in the Netherlands is caused by Histoplasma capsulatum and whether other risk factors might play a role in the pathogenesis of this syndrome. METHODS 23 patients were clinically diagnosed as having presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome based on the following criteria: peripapillary atrophy, punched out lesions, a macular dis...

I. Background Seborrheic keratoses are common, benign, pigmented epidermal tumors.[1] Many terms such as senile wart, melanoacanthoma, basal cell papilloma, senile keratosis and seborrheic wart have been applied, but seborrheic keratosis is the most widely accepted term. These usually develop after the age of 50 years although occasionally, seen in young adulthood without any sexual predilectio...