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One per cent of all brain tumours and twenty per cent of meningiomas eventually develop an extracranial extension. The least common site is the neck. We report a case of malignant meningioma with extension into the neck of a 39-year-old male.
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Head and Neck Neoplasms/diagnosis , Meningeal Neoplasms/drug therapy , Meningioma/diagnosis , Adult , Brain/pathology , Fatal Outcome , Head and Neck Neoplasms/therapy , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Male , Meningioma/therapy , Prognosis , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedABSTRACT
We describe the clinico-pathological features and discuss the possible pathogenetic mechanism of thyroid papillary carcinoma arising in a branchial cleft cyst. This has been described only once previously in the literature.
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Branchioma/complications , Carcinoma, Papillary/complications , Carcinoma, Papillary/pathology , Thyroid Gland/pathology , Thyroid Neoplasms/complications , Thyroid Neoplasms/pathology , Adult , Branchioma/ultrastructure , Carcinoma, Papillary/ultrastructure , Humans , Male , Thyroid Gland/ultrastructure , Thyroid Neoplasms/ultrastructureABSTRACT
A study on caustic ingestion in Jamaica was done by reviewing all the cases treated at Bustamante Hospital for Children, Kingston Public Hospital, University Hospital and National Chest Hospital between 1982 and 1992. The objectives of the study were: (1) To find the age groups most affected. (2) To assess the effectiveness of our treatment methods (3) To understand the complications of caustic ingestion and plan preventive approaches. All the hospital records, including clinical, surgical, and radiological procedures were carefully assessed and verified. The age groups most frequently affected were 0-5 and 5-10 years and the most serious complications were oesophageal and laryngeal burns. We concluded that superficial burns were manageable with antibiotics, steroids and nasogastric feeds but deep burns ended up with surgical augmentation or replacement of organs (AU)