22 May 2023: Case of the Month #527

Thanks to Dr. Raul Gonzalez, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA for contributing this case and discussion and to Dr. Naziheh Assarzadegan, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA for reviewing the discussion.

Clinical history:

A 45 year old man presents to a gastroenterologist complaining of constipation and rectal bleeding. A single ulcerated rectal lesion is found on colonoscopy and is biopsied.

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Note: This case was originally emailed to our e-newsletter subscribers on May 18, 2023.

25 April 2023: Case of the Month #526

Thanks to Dr. Stephanie Skala, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA for contributing this case and discussion and to Dr. Gulisa Turashvili, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia for reviewing the discussion.

Clinical history:

A 62 year old woman presented with post-menopausal bleeding. A subsequent biopsy was diagnosed as high grade endometrial carcinoma. She underwent a hysterectomy.

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28 March 2023: Case of the Month #525

Thanks to Dr. Carlos A. Torres-Cabala, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA for the images; Drs. Alessia Cimadamore and Rodolfo Montironi, Polytechnic University of the Marche Region, Ancona, Italy and the Genitourinary Pathology Society (GUPS) for the discussion; and Dr. Jonathan Ho, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica for reviewing the discussion.

Clinical history:

A 25 year old man presented with a 1 cm, well demarcated, dome shaped, blue-black lesion on his finger, which was excised.

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15 February 2023: Case of the Month #524

Thanks to Dr. Kelly Magliocca, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA for contributing this case and discussion and to Dr. Molly Housley Smith, Pathology & Cytology Labs, Lexington, Kentucky, USA for reviewing the discussion.

Clinical history:

A 3 week old female infant had a pedunculated lesion of the anterior maxillary alveolar process, which was excised.

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18 January 2023: Case of the Month #523

Thanks to Dr. Raul Gonzalez, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA for contributing this case and discussion and to Dr. Aaron R. Huber, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA, for reviewing the discussion.

Clinical history:

A 25 year old man complaining of abdominal pain is found to have a 4 cm gastric mass, which is resected.

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21 December 2022: Case of the Month #522

Thanks to Drs. Anna Sarah Erem and Gulisa Turashvili, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA for contributing this case and discussion and to Dr. Jennifer Bennett, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA for reviewing the discussion.

Clinical history:

A 55 year old woman underwent a total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and a sentinel lymph node biopsy for FIGO grade 1 endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the endometrium. One of the lymph nodes showed the following findings.

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8 November 2022: Case of the Month #521

Thanks to Drs. Leandro Freitas, Ana Grizotto and Athanase Billis, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, Brazil and the Genitourinary Pathology Society (GUPS), for contributing this case and discussion and to Dr. Debra Zynger, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA for reviewing the discussion.

Clinical history:

A 76 year old man with an incidental renal tumor in the lower pole of the right side of a horseshoe kidney underwent a partial nephrectomy.

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12 October 2022: Case of the Month #520

Thanks to Dr. Debra Zynger, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, for contributing this case and discussion, and to Dr. Bonnie Choy, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA, for reviewing the discussion.

Clinical history:

A 61 year old man with no cancer history had a flaky rash in the penoscrotal region for 9 months. CT scans of the abdomen and pelvis were negative. He underwent a scrotal excision and partial penectomy.

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23 September 2022: Case of the Month #519

Thanks to Drs. Mario Marques-Piubelli and Roberto Miranda, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA, for contributing this case and discussion and to Dr. Genevieve Crane, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, for reviewing the discussion.

Clinical history:

A 51 year old man with a medical history of HIV infection who was noncompliant with antiretroviral therapy presented with cough, dyspnea, chest pain, fever and pancytopenia. CT showed pleural and pericardial effusions but no masses. A pleurocentesis was performed.

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17 August 2022: Case of the Month #518

Thanks to Drs. Mariel Molina Nunez and Julie Jorns, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, for contributing this case and discussion and to Dr. Kristen Muller, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA for reviewing the discussion.

Clinical history:

A postmenopausal woman, on a screening mammogram, was found to have a 15 mm mass in the lower inner quadrant of the left breast. Breast ultrasound revealed a 1.7 cm complex solid and cystic mass.

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