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Parathyroid carcinoma is a rare cause of primary hyperparathyroidism and these tumours are usually hyperfunctional as opposed to other malignant endocrine tumors. Surgery is the only effective treatment while nonsurgical modalities yield poor results. We report a patient, who presented with palpable mass in the neck and severe hypercalcemia. He underwent debulking surgery and received allendronate, calcitonin, dacarbazine followed by in- situ alcohol instillation with some success.
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Adult , Alcohols/therapeutic use , Alendronate/therapeutic use , Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating/therapeutic use , Calcitonin/therapeutic use , Combined Modality Therapy , Dacarbazine/therapeutic use , Humans , Hypercalcemia/drug therapy , Male , Parathyroid Neoplasms/complicationsSubject(s)
Adolescent , Adult , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Lymphangioma/pathology , MaleSubject(s)
Child , Child, Preschool , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic/diagnostic imagingABSTRACT
This study describes the role of ultrasound in the evaluation of abdominal abscesses in children. A total of 41 abscesses were encountered in 36 patients (21 boys and 15 girls). The youngest patient was 1-month-old. Abscesses were localised at various sites (hepatic, renal, perirenal, paracolic, appendicular, pelvic, psoas, subphrenic, parietal), and of varied sonographic patterns (complex, anechoic, hypoechoic and containing uniform low level echoes). Most of them had irregular walls.
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Abdomen/diagnostic imaging , Abscess/diagnostic imaging , Child , Child, Preschool , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Infant , Liver Abscess/diagnostic imaging , Liver Abscess, Amebic/diagnostic imaging , MaleSubject(s)
Hernia, Inguinal/complications , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Male , Rectal Fistula/etiologySubject(s)
Child , Child, Preschool , Choledochal Cyst/surgery , Diagnosis, Differential , Humans , Infant , Infant, NewbornABSTRACT
A rare case of ultrasonic visualization of multiple pleural masses in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is presented. We believe this to be the first case of its kind in the literature.
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Adult , Biopsy, Needle , Humans , Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/pathology , Male , Pleural Effusion/pathology , Pleural Effusion, Malignant/pathology , Pleural Neoplasms/pathology , UltrasonographyABSTRACT
A rare case of fibrosing mediastinitis, possibly of tuberculous etiology, causing superior vena caval obstruction is presented. The diagnosis was based on clinical features of superior vena caval obstruction, chest radiography, phlebography and mediastinal calcification in absence of definite mass lesion on CT-scan of thorax. The disease followed a relatively benign non-progressive course over next nineteen months of follow-up.
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Aged , Fibrosis , Humans , Male , Mediastinitis/complications , Superior Vena Cava Syndrome/etiologyABSTRACT
Sixty children of proven meningitis and with clinical suspicion of its complications and open fontanelle were evaluated by real time ultrasound. Twenty of these patients had normal ultrasound findings while 40 showed varied sonographic features suggesting complications of meningitis, e.g., ventricular dilatation, pus in the ventricles, increased periventricular echogenicity, brain abscess, subdural effusion, porencephalic cysts, etc. Ultrasound is very useful in the diagnosis and serial follow up of these complications.
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Bacterial Infections/complications , Brain/pathology , Brain Diseases/diagnosis , Child, Preschool , Developing Countries , Echoencephalography , Humans , India , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Meningitis/complicationsABSTRACT
Twenty children of acute viral hepatitis were subjected to ultrasound of gall bladder in acute and recovery phase. Increased wall thickness, reduced volume and abnormal echo-texture of gall bladder contents were the findings in the acute phase. A normal ultrasound of gall bladder was restored in most of the patients within 2-4 weeks.