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Saturday, 17 May 2025

CASE 831: FISHBONE MIGRATING, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr ÂU CHÍ NGHĪA, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM

 A 35 year-old man with a progressive swallowing pain for 2 weeks . He has been doutfull about a misswallowing of fishbone 5 weeks before.

Ultrasound detected a #13x1.8mm fishbone penetrating the salivary gland in the right submandibular region.







Oral endoscopy found out nothing.


MSCT confirmed the fishbone in the right submandibular region.


Surgery was done for removing the fishbone.





Thursday, 15 May 2025

CASE 830: PANCREATIC CANCER and a REVIEW of the PERITONEAL CARCINOMATOSIS, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr TRẦN NGÂN CHÂU, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM


A 58 year-old man with epigastric pain and flatulence for one month.



Ultrasound detected a # 21x27mm hypoechoic tumor of the pancreatic body and peritoneal carcinomatosis [PC]: a large amount # 4 liters of malignant ascites, metastatic lymph nodes and peritoneal cake.



Lab data showed raised CA 19-9 : 807 U/mL and CA 125: 95.7U/mL


MSCT confirmed the peritoneal carcinomatosis.

Surgery was done for the peritoneal node biopsy. The result was an adenocarcinoma grade 2 metastasis with the pancreatic origin.

Surgical report noted many  # 10mm nodes seeding on the peritoneum that made retractile the  epiploon and the mesentery. There was a #80 mm hard mass seemed to be the primary tumor at the mesenteric root of the transverse colon.




Histoimmunologic staining:CK7. CA 19-9 (+), CK 20 (+) localized, CDX2,  SATB2 (-). That were in correlation to adenocarcinoma grad 2 metastase to the peritoneum with the origin of the pancreas.

DISCUSSION :

Ultrasound detects easily the PC but difficultely finds out the origin of the PC.

There were 3 published cases of extraovarian primary PC,

2 published cases of malignant mesothelioma,

1 published case of mucinous carcinoma (unknown the origin),

In total, 5 cases of not having the origin, 1 case of unknown the origin. (pls. view cases 128, 164, 298, 332, 448).

Wednesday, 14 May 2025

CASE 829: ACCESSORY TARSAL NAVICULAR BONE, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr MÃ NGUYỄN MINH TÙNG, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.



A 48 year-old man with his swollen right ankle pain for one month. His past history was an arterial stenting and denies any clue of trauma or arthritis.



Vascular ultrasound of the right ankle noted normal result  but it existed  an amount of collected fluid around his right ankle.



Lab data and tarsal X-ray were normal.






But MSCT and MRI detected an accessory tarsal navicular bone of the right foot. It also was an impingement syndrome at the right ankle due to the appearance of the accessory tarsal navicular bone and its articulation.


There was a degenerative arthritis between the two navicular bones.




Patient is a medicine fellow who denies any the  injected corticosteroid nor surgery, only applying the physical therapy.







REFERENCE:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.resurgens.com/education/accessory-navicular%23:~:text%3DAccessory%2520navicular%2520syndrome%2520is%2520a,risk%2520of%2520a%2520foot%2520injury.&ved=2ahUKEwiF5vjN8amNAxWCn68BHQzwDYYQFnoECCAQBQ&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw2_-ljlxkaDUHGdyGejfjHD

https://www.foothealthfacts.org/conditions/accessory-navicular-syndrome-(1)


Thursday, 8 May 2025

CASE 828: COLONOURINARY BLADDER FISTULA due to DIVERTICULITIS , Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr NGUYỄN KIM HIẾU, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM

A 51 year-old man with dysuria with bloody urine for 2 weeeks.
Ultrasound detected thickening wall of sigmoid colon which adhered the urinary bladder. And there was a fistula between with air into the urinary bladder.



MSCT  and cystoscopy confirmed a colonourinary fistula.

Result of specimen post-op of the endoscopic surgery was a perforated diverticulitis which made a fistula into the  urinary bladder wall.

CASE 826-827: PARATHYROID TUMOR, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr LÝ VĂN PHÁI, BS HỒ KHÁNH ĐỨC, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM

Two cases of parathyroid tumor detected by ultrasound. The parathyroid tumor were solid, hypoechoic pattern while in normal case of  parathyroid gland may seen with hyperechoic pattern. Sometime it is mimiking as a thyroid nodule.
PTH and  blood calcium were decreased their values when the parathyroid were removed.

 

Case 1








Case 2




Saturday, 26 April 2025

CASE 825: SEMINAL VESICLE TUMOR, Dr PHAN THANH HAI, Dr NGUTYEN MINH THIEN, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER. HCMC VIETNAM

A 44 year-old HBV-infected man with dysuria for months but no fever.

TRUS detected a mass # 34x37mm beside the right seminal vesicle.











But 2-time-biopsy results were not related to a retroperitoneal cancer.
 The mass was getting bigger so a pelvic 
 surgery was done to remove the mass.
 



The final result post-op was an retroperitoneal epithelial cyst. 

 





Thursday, 24 April 2025

CASE 824: THYMUS CARCINOMA, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr HUYNH ĐứC TH ỤC ĐOAN, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM

 A 57 year-old man with thoracic wall pain for 6 months  that failed in analgesic management. No dign of myasthenia .



MSCT detected  destruction of the sternum and an anterior mediastinum tumor maybe thymic cancer.




Core biopsy with guided ultrasound results were poor differentiated thymus carcinoma.



Histoimmunochemistry staining confirmed a thymic squamous cell carcinoma.