Lipomyelocele is an uncommon type of lipoma that occurs with spina bifida. We present the clinical course and therapeutic process of a female who underwent resection of a lipomyelocele and developed a massive lumbosacral subcutaneous exudate postoperatively. The therapeutic process is described in detail, and a review of the relevant literature on lipomyelocele is presented. A 23-year-old woman...

Examination of abdominal subcutaneous fat aspirates is a practical, sensitive and specific method for the diagnosis of systemic amyloidosis. Here we describe the development and implementation of a clinical assay using mass spectrometry-based proteomics to type amyloidosis in subcutaneous fat aspirates. First, we validated the assay comparing amyloid-positive (n=43) and -negative (n=26) subcuta...

BACKGROUND While uncommon, iliopsoas abscesses can become the underlying cause of a fever of unknown origin. Even in such cases, it is considered rare for an iliopsoas abscess to extend into the subcutaneous space. CASE REPORT A 74-year-old woman with a history of schizophrenia was referred to our hospital with a high-grade fever. The patient was unaware of her febrile status prior to admission...

A ten-month-old girl presented to our clinic with a progressively enlarging congenital mass at the midline suprasternal location. Histopathologic examination revealed a benign cyst with stratified squamous keratinized epithelium with numerous eccrine glands in the sinus wall. The diagnosis was compatible with dermoid cyst. Dermoid cysts of the trunk are rare lesions, but a midline location is c...

Figure 1. Preoperative photograph showing the overlying melanocytic nevi. DESCRIPTION We present a 13-year-old male patient with congenital melanocytic nevi and a yearlong history of enlarging right preauricular mass. Examination revealed 2 congenital melanocytic nevi overlying a large, firm, mobile 2.7 × 2.5-cm subcutaneous mass with irregular borders. Pathology confirmed intradermal melanocyt...

scleritis have been reported following pterygium surgery,3 scleral buckling procedures4 and cataract surgery.5 Trauma has been described as a cause for mycotic scleritis,67 but our patient did not recall any eye injury. Although these reported cases refer to exogenous infections, with agents other than A niger, they do show similarities to our case. Clinically, severe headaches and periocular p...

plays an important role in the etiology of postoperative transient hair loss. Its general presentation in the occipital area supports the pressure effect. Hair loss begins between postoperative day 3 and 28. Normal hair structure is expected to be acquired within 120 days. Physiological disorders were reported to trigger postoperative tranFig. 5. Appearance of transient hair loss at postoperati...

background and objective: bruising is the most common complications that resulting from subcutaneous heparin injection. it causes the limitation of injection area, anxiety, disruption of body image, refusing treatment in patients and the reduction in patients trust in nurse. although different methods were suggested to lessen these unwanted complications, unfortunately none of them could decrea...

Palisading granulomatous reactions are prominent microscopic characteristics that are seen in many diseases. Isolated subcutaneous cystic echinococcosis is rarely documented. Palisading granuloma as a host immune reaction to Echinococcus granulosus in an isolated primary subcutaneous hydatid cyst has been reported only once before. In this report, we are describing a 53-year-old male who develo...