Echocardiographic examination, performed in a 12-year-old boy who had signs of mitral regulation, showed the presence of an abnormal mass of echoes in the left atrium and mitral orifice. These were initially interpreted as representing an atrial myxoma. Surgical exploration showed that the tumor originated from the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve, and, microscopically, the lesion was diag...

Lipomas can occur almost anywhere in the body, but retroperitoneal lipomas are extremely rare. They are slowly growing benign tumors and can attain an enormous size due to silent course of the disease. Total excision of the mass is the treatment of choice and is curative for benign retroperitoneal lipomas. We treated an 11-month-old female patient with giant retroperitoneal lipomas by surgical ...

At birth, an otherwise healthy term female infant was noted to have a 3 cm blue-coloured tense cyst-like lesion attached by a skin-coloured pedicle to the ulnar aspect of the right hand, adjacent to the fifth metacarpal–phalangeal joint (figure 1). Over the following 48 h, the cystic lesion involuted and appeared necrotic, but remained attached to the hand via a skin-coloured pedicle (figure 2)...