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Thursday, 9 April 2026

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 glanf.




MSCT confirmed the fishbone in the right upper submandibular region.


Surgery removed successfully the fishbone in the right submandibular gland



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.





Thursday, 2 April 2026

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.



Saturday, 28 March 2026

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.




Thursday, 12 March 2026

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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