introduction: squamous cell carcinoma (scc) is the most common head and neck malignancy. to decrease the side effects of treatment and mortality from disease relapse, careful staging for the proper treatment plan is necessary. the main purpose of this prospective study is to compare the diagnostic value of computed tomography (ct) and magnetic resonance im-aging (mri) in oral scc and its lymph ...

we report a case of a 75-year old man that came at hematologist’s attention for lymphoma evaluation due to axillary lymph node enlargement and fever. thorax, abdomen and pelvis contrast-enhanced computed tomography (cect) showed lymph nodes, spleen and liver lesions. axillary lymph node biopsy was performed and the diagnosis of marginal zone lymphoma (mzl) at stage iv was postulated, then the p...

  Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease that is characterized with noncaseating granulomatous nodules which present in multiple organs specially lungs (90%) . Incidence of masses due to Sarcoidosis in upper extremity is low and most cases present in association with involvement of pulmonary hilary lymph nodes. In this article we present a rare case of Sarcoidosis which presented as a single soft ti...

we report a young male with an initial excisional biopsy report of melanoma of the lower back, referred to our hospital for complete excision and sentinel lymph node (sln) biopsy.  four peritumoral intradermal tc-99m phytate injection was performed and slns were detected in both axillary and right inguinal regions. on the biopsy only the right axillary sln was metastatic leading to right axilla...

clinically apparent cervical lymphadenopathy has been found at the initial presentation in 23 to 56 % of cases of papillary thyroid carcinoma. here we report tuberculous lymphadenitis mimicking metastatic lymph nodes from papillary thyroid carcinoma and suggest that tuberculosis apart from metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma should also be considered in the etiology of enlarged lymph node...