We describe two male patients, aged 17 and 47 years, with clinical and biochemical features of pheochromocytoma. Both patients had normal-sized adrenal glands on abdominal CT scan and abnormal… (More)
Adenoma of the gallbladder is a rare benign tumor presenting as a sessile or pedunculated lesion with a papillary or nonpapillary structure. Of late, attention has been drawn to its malignant… (More)
Recently, we demonstrated that melatonin secretion was increased in male patients with GnRH deficiency and decreased to normal levels during testosterone treatment. These data suggested that gonadal… (More)
A 27-year-old woman with no previous personal or family history of thyroid disease was referred to us for the evaluation of thyroid nodule, five months postpartum. Thyroid scintigraphy demonstrated a… (More)
Two patients with unusual Hodgkin's disease who initially had a painless, solitary, thyroid cold nodule are described. Fine-needle aspiration revealed lymphocytic thyroiditis in one patient and a… (More)
BACKGROUND
Synovial sarcoma (SS), a malignant mesenchymal tumor, has a biphasic growth pattern characteristically. Histologically and cytologically the tumor can pose diagnostic difficulty when the… (More)
The fine needle aspiration cytology of a thyroid nodule in a 19-year-old female showed Reed-Sternberg (RS) cell variants in clusters, thereby suggesting the possibility of syncytial variant of… (More)
Small cell carcinoma of the ovary is a rare but lethal neoplasm occurring in the young. In two-thirds of the cases the tumor produces paraendocrine hypercalcemia. The tumor, despite the name, is… (More)
Arteriovenous (AV) malformation or angiodysplasia of the gastrointestinal tract is a very rare cause of bleeding in children. These lesions are congenital anomalies and thought to be of hamartomatous… (More)