lymphangioma/obesity

Lymphangioma is a rare and understudied pathology that is usually detected in the first decade of life, and its appearance in adults is rare. This report details a 51-year-old man with morbid obesity who presented, for the last eight months, multiple asymmetric tumor lesions with extension to the

BACKGROUND The Bardet-Biedl syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, which associates obesity, pigmentary retinopathy, hexadactyly, hypogenitalism, renal dysfunction and mental retardation. Other abnormalities can be observed in the Bardet-Biedl syndrome, but few cutaneous abnormalities have

OBJECTIVE Primary torsion of the greater omentum is an infrequent cause of acute abdomen in children. A retrospective review was conducted to establish the prevalence and clinical features of omental torsion as a cause of acute abdominal pain in childhood. METHODS We reviewed the clinical histories

This report describes 2 cases of localized vulvar lymphedema that were diagnosed in 2 morbidly obese women, including a unique case of a massive localized vulvar lymphedema associated with lymphangioma circumscriptum of the vulva. Herein, we also review previously reported cases of vulvar lymphedema

This paper deals with a population-based material collected during the years 1990-1998, and comprises 439 tumours and tumour-like vascular processes from 420 dogs. Anatomic location, age, breed and gender are reported. A distinction is made between benign neoplasms, tumours of intermediate

OBJECTIVE A concealed penis is defined as a phallus of normal size buried in prepubic tissue (buried penis), enclosed in scrotal tissue (webbed penis), or trapped by scar tissue after penile surgery (trapped penis). We report our results using a standardized surgical approach that was highly