hamartoma/구역질

We report the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) findings of a patient who presented with lower thoracic pain, nausea, and vomiting and had a CT scan of the chest in which a well-defined homogeneous mass was identified. Further evaluation

Pancreatic hamartoma is a rare benign lesion and may be mistaken for a malignancy, as demonstrated by two cases. The first case was a 29-year-old man who presented with a 7-month history of intermittent upper abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting and a 15-kg weight loss. CT and MRI revealed a mass in

Giant polypoidal hamartomas of the pharynx and oesophagus are rare benign tumours of unknown origin, exceptionally arising from the oropharynx. We report the case of a 74-year-old man who developed sudden nausea and a foreign body sensation. Shortly afterwards he regurgitated a 25 x 3 x 1.5 cm

A 14-year-old boy was brought to our hospital with abdominal pain and nausea after suffering a blow to the abdomen. A mass was felt in the right hypogastrium, and the patient was hospitalized for possible hematoma resulting from the abdominal trauma. Initially, we treated him conservatively and

A 2 and a half year-old boy with neurofibromatosis developed unilateral proptosis, decreased visual acuity, and optic disk edema. After the discovery and removal of an optic nerve glioma, the patient had ten years of excellent health until he began having headaches, nausea, and vomiting. He had

The tuberous sclerosis complex is a rare disease, with autosomal dominant transmission, with multisystemic involvement including ophthalmologic. Retinal hamartomas and retinal achromic patch are the most frequent ocular findings. Other ophthalmic signs and symptoms are relatively rare in this

A 41-year-old male patient with aggravated epigastralgia and nausea was admitted to Central Aizu General Hospital in February 1997. His past history showed a colonic polyp and anemia in the fourth decade. The patient looked healthy, but showed abdominal distension and tenderness, and pigmented lips.

We present a 84 year old male with a history of chronic diarrhea and megaloblastic anemia. A week before his hospitalization had nausea and vomit. An upper endoscopy showed a submucosa elevated lesion of 40 mm in the duodenum bulb, the biopsy was not contributory. The diarrhea and megaloblastic

Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) is a rare, autosomal dominant inherited disorder characterized by gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyps and pigmented mucocutaneous lesions. Intussusceptions and gastrointestinal tract bleeding are frequent complications of PJS caused by larger polyps, but acute

A 15-year-old girl with known Peutz-Jeghers syndrome and with nausea and vomiting of all ingested food was transferred from an outside institution. Physical examination revealed a palpable upper abdominal mobile mass. Upper gastrointestinal series revealed a stacked coin appearance consistent with

BACKGROUND Various types of benign and malignant splenic tumours including hemangiomas, lymphagiomas, hamartomas, hemangiosarcomas, malignant lymphomas and metastatic carcinomas share radiological characteristics making it impossible for a physician to determine the definite aetiology of splenic

OBJECTIVE Dysplastic gangliocytoma of the cerebellum (Lhermitte-Duclos disease) is a rare hamartomatous lesion of the cerebellar cortex. The pathogenesis of the disease is still poorly understood. Lhermitte-Duclos disease was recently considered to be part of a multiple hamartoma-neoplasia syndrome

This work is aimed at identifying factors associated with primary jejunum-ileal tumors malignancy, defining a prediction model with sensitivity, specificity and accuracy to distinguish malign from benign neoplasms. These tumors are rare, have highly unspecific presentation and, frequently, are

Inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) of the spleen is a rare benign tumor with unknown etiology. It causes problems in the diagnosis because of mimicking some hematopoetic malignancies. Here we report the case of a 36-yr-old woman complaining of nausea and insomnia. Laboratory investigations were limited

Dysplastic gangliocytoma or Lhermitte-Duclos disease is a rare disorder characterized by a slowly progressive unilateral tumour mass of the cerebellar cortex. It is probably hamartomatous, although the exact pathogenesis remains unknown. Lhermitte-Duclos disease was recently encountered to be part