[Cervical cystic metastasis: differential diagnosis with branchiogenic carcinoma]. / Metástasis quística cervical: diagnóstico diferencial con el carcinoma branquiógeno.

This paper try to call you attention about the cystic metastatic lesion and the differential diagnostic with the branchiogenic carcinoma. We presented a case of cystic metastases in the neck, and this case has prompted us to discuss the clinic features of these metastases.

[Diagnostic evaluation of cervical adenopathies in childhood]. / Evaluación diagnóstica de las adenopatías cervicales en pediatría.

Between 1985 and 1990, 45 children were studied in an inpatient basis hospital because of cervical lymphadenopathy. This was the most important clinical sign in these patients. Forty-three had true adenitis. In the others, one was submaxillitis and one a sarcoma. The age range was from 2.1 to 13.3 years. Seven children (16%) had neoplastic adenitis (2 papillary carcinoma of the thyroid, 4 Hodgkin's lymphoma and one non-Hodgkin's lymphoma). Thirty-six patients had benign disorders (18 mononucleosis infections, 7 nonspecific adenitis, 5 infections of mycobacteria, 2 of toxoplasma and 2 of rickettsia, one cervical Whipple and one desmopathic adenitis). We did no find any differences related to age or morphological characteristics of the lymph nodes. The evolution time in patients with malignant tumors was 16.4 weeks and 9.6 weeks in the benign group. All of the cases with supraclavicular location had a lymphoma. The mean LDH in patients with malignant tumors was 214 U/L and 614 U/L in those with non-malignant tumors (p < 0.01).

[Granular cell tumor. Unusual location]. / Tumor de células granulares. Localización unusual.

The myoblastoma or Abrikossoff' tumor is a kind of harmless tumor that concerns to adult people and whose origin remains being a controversy. We report a new case of Abrikossoff' tumor with a unusual localization and emphasizing on its histogenesis.