CARTO A 50 year-old female patient presented E.R with hematemesis. Urgent endoscopy was done. See below. Unfortunately the the patient’s Hemoglobin was not recovered to normal range until 3 days after the procedure and had recurrent melena. So we planned interventional procedure by reviewing previous CT scan. The hemoglobin normalized just one day after the … Read more
Male / 44 , Chief complaint : fever (since 6 days ago) Never smoker The patient’s main symptom is fever continued for 6 days. the chest radiograph and CT scan seems to be lobar pneumonia. the patient was treated with antibiotics for 5 months Long standing lobar consolidation made us to suspect the malignancy especially, … Read more
Male / 39, Chief complaint : chest discomfortDiagnosed with AIDS Bilateral and symmetric ill-defined nodules in a peribronchovascular distribution (flame-shaped lesions) usually exceeding 1cm in diameter. Peribronchovascular and interlobular septal thickening Alveolar hemorrhage GGA may be seen surrounding the nodules (“halo sign”) The patient diagnosed as Kaposi sarcoma Kaposi sarcoma is… A low-grade vascular tumor … Read more
Differential Diagnosis: benign peripheral nerve sheath tumor, ganglion, cyst, other myxoid neoplasms Biopsy confirmed Intramuscular myxoma Intramuscular myxomais the most common benign myxoid neoplasm, consisting of abundant myxoid stroma interspersed with benign spindle cells. Intramuscular myxoma is most frequently diagnosed in patients 40–70 years of age. The most common presentation is a slowly growing painless mass. … Read more
