background: marjolin's ulcer is a rare, aggressive condition that arises on chronic skin lesions and diseases. in this article, we will report 83 cases of this disease. methods: retrospectively, we retrieved 83 records of patients with cancer arising from chronic skin conditions. data concerning demography, type of original skin insult, time interval between original lesion and cancer, cancer h...

We report an adult pancreatic hemangioma diagnosed on pathological specimen review following pylorus preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy for a symptomatic cystic mass in the head of the pancreas. Eight cases of adult pancreatic hemangioma have been reported in literature since 1939. Presenting symptoms, radiographic diagnosis, pathologic characteristics, and treatment of adult pancreatic hemagio...

OBJECTIVE Inferior turbinate surgery for nasal obstruction can be performed in a variety of ways. Only a few of these methods produce tissue that can be sent for pathologic analysis. According to the College of American Pathologists, turbinate tissues are not exempt from requisite pathologic evaluation. Our objectives were to evaluate the clinical value and cost implications of routine patholog...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare the extent of pathologic response in patients with HER2-positive (HER2+) breast cancer treated with standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy, with or without trastuzumab (H), according to hormone receptor (HR) status. PATIENTS AND METHODS We included 199 patients with HER2+ breast cancer from three successive cohorts of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy on the...

Chondrosarcoma of the hyoid bone is rare. Only 14 cases have been reported in the literature, to date. We present a case of chondrosarcoma of the hyoid bone with imaging, surgical, and pathologic correlation, and a review of the literature.

The pathologic resorption of bone in the anatomic area of a multirooted tooth where the roots diverge is furcation invasion. Literature review on its treatment modalities is discussed In detail in this paper.

BACKGROUND In Korea, medical institutions make claims for insurance reimbursement to the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA). Thus, HIRA databases reflect the general medical services that are provided in Korea. We conducted two pathology-related studies using a HIRA national patient sample (NPS) data (selection probability, 0.03). First, we evaluated the current status of gen...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the correlation between the surgeon's intraoperative findings and histopathologic diagnosis of cholesteatoma specimens and the associated health care cost in requesting pathologic evaluation. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart analysis. METHODS Chart data were collected at a tertiary neurotology referral center from patients undergoing tympanomastoidectomy fo...

OBJECTIVE To assess the need for pulmonary surgery in the treatment of refractory gestational trophoblastic neoplasia with lung metastasis after normalization of serum beta human chorionic gonadotropin (β-hCG) level with salvage chemotherapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A review of medical records of patients with refractory gestational trophoblastic neoplasia who underwent pulmonary surgery and re...