CASE 902: INFANTILE THYROID CANCER: Dr PHAN THANH HAI, Dr NGUYEN XUAN HOANG, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

 A 11 year-old boy, with a thyroid tumor for 2 years.

Ultrasound of thyroid detected a #19×17×21mm right lobe solid hypoechoic tumor # TI-RADS 5. Some cervical hypervascular lymph nodes.

A year later the  PTC on the right lobe of thyroid was bigger.

CASE 901: FISHBONE MIGRATING in SUBMANDIBULAR REGION, Dr PHAN THANH HAI, Dr LE VAN TAI, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

 A 35 year-old man with his right swollen lower face for 3 weeks after perch fishbone choking. He was removed the fishbone but the pain relapsed after 2 weeks.

Ultrasound detected a # 11,3x3mm fishbone into the right submandibular gland.

MSCT confirmed the fishbone in the right upper submandibular region.

Surgery removed successfully the fishbone in the right submandibular gland.

Removing of fishbone by oneself may push it anywhere.

CASE 900: COEXISTING of GASTRIC GIST and LEIOMYOMA, Dr PHAN THANH HAI, Dr TRAN THI BAO CHAU, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM

 A 70 year-old woman with feeling of being gassy.

Ultrasound detected a # 45x21mm hypoechoic tumor of the gastric cardia.

MSCT and endoscopy confirmed the  45×21mm gastric tumor.

Gastroendoscopy noted a  cardia tumor pushed from outside. 

But endoscopic surgery detected another gastric GIST tumor of  the together the cardia tumor.

Results of the specimen with immunochemistry staining were a leiomyoma of the cardia coexisting of a GIST tumor of the gastric tuberosity.

CASE 899: TESTICULAR TUMOR, Dr PHAN THANH HAI, Dr NGUYEN THE ANH, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM

 A 29 year-old man in a general check-up for marriage with a hard painless mass of the right scrotum.

Ultrasound detected a hypoechoic node at the lower pole of the right testis.

MRI confirmed a # 24x20mm right testis tumor.

Lab data was in normal values.

A hard testicular mass is eventually a malignant tumor.

CASE 898: MEDIASTINAL LYMPHOMA, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr LÊ THỊ THANH THẢO, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

 A 30 year-old woman with hoarsening and epigastric pain for 4 months. Her left neck was swollen without inflammation sign since inoculated against rabies.

Ultrasound detected her left neck  and superclavicular edema  with some round lymph nodes.

And a hypoechoic mass of the left lung invaded to the superclavicular region. Ultrasound also noted abdominal lymph nodes and a left ovarian teratoma.

Chest XRay noted inflamed TB and left hilus mass.

MSCT confirmed a left anterior mediastinal mass, left ovarian teratoma and abdominal lymph nodes.

Core biopsy of the left anterior mediastinal mass with the result was an anterior mediastinal B cell lymphomas.

CASE SERIES: 894, 5, 6, 7 CAROTID BODY TUMOR , Dr PHAN THANH HAI, Dr NGUYEN NGHIEP VAN, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

 

CASE 893: CAROTID BODY TUMOR, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr NGÔ THỊ HUYỀN TRANG, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

 A man with right neck mass for a long time.

 Ultrasound detected a # 28x33x42mm hypervascular mass at the right carotid bifurcation which made it spread out 2 branches of the right carotid artery.

MSCT confirmed a right carotid body tumor.

But the man denied any surgical management.

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