Radiologic and histopathologic review of rare benign and malignant breast diseases

High social awareness of breast diseases and the rise in breast imaging facilities have led to an increase in the detection of even rare benign and malignant breast lesions. Breast lesions are associated with a broad spectrum of imaging characteristics, and each radiologic imaging technique reflects different characteristics of them. We aimed to increase familiarity of the radiologist with these uncommon lesions as well as correlate histopathologic findings with the radiologic imaging features of the tumors. Histopathologic examination is necessary in the evaluation of such breast lesions, particularly when radiologic images are not definitive for a specific diagnosis

A Neurosyphilis Case Presenting with Cognitive Dysfunction, Epileptic Seizures, High Signal Intensity and Significant Atrophy in Left Amygdala/Hippocampal Region

Syphilis is generally a sexually transmitted, chronic, multisystemic disease. Central nervous system involvement occurs in secondary and teritary stages. Neurosyphilis presents itself as meningitis or meningovasculitis in secondary stage, and general paresis or tabes dorsalis in teritary stage. But, in the antibiotic era, instead of classical neurosyphilis forms, atypical forms with merged clinical symptoms started to occur more frequently making the diagnosis difficult. In this article, we present a neurosyphilis case who applied to the clinic with generalized tonic clonic convulsions resulting in trafic accidents. The characteristic of this case is ongoing memory problems due to attentional dysfunction as shown in neuropsychological tests despite penicilin treatment and the presence of a high signal intensity and significant atrophy in his left amygdala/hipocampal area in cranial magnetic resonance imagin

Fascioliasis : a not rare cause of hypereosinophilia in developing countries, present in developed too

<p>Fascioliasis, which is a worlwide parasitic zoonosis,endemic in south-est mediterranean areas, but uncommon in other areas. Clinical signs are usually non-specific. A 32 year old male patient was admitted to our hospital with complaints of abdominal pain, diarrhea, fatigue, nausea, lost of apetite, itching, cough, night sweats and weight loss. Complete blood count revealed hypereosinophilia. The abdominal ultrasound scan was normal. But computed tomography scan revealed irregular nodular lesions in periportal area of the liver. Based on these clinical and radiological signs and continuous hypereosinophilia, the patient was serologically investigated for <em>Fasciola hepatica</em> infection. <em>F. hepatica</em> indirect hemagglutination test in serum was positive at a titer of 1/1280. Single dose Triclabendasole 10mg/kg was administered and repeated two weeks later. Clinical and laboratory signs were completely resolved after treatment.  Serological tests for fascioliasis should be included in all patients with  hypereosinophilia and abnormal liver CT.</p&gt

A Rare Presentation of Xanthogranulomatous Cholecystitis as Bouveret’s Syndrome

The purpose of this paper is to present sonographic and CT imaging findings of xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis (XGC) presented as Bouveret’s syndrome, a very rare cause of gastric obstruction. While the patient’s physical examination, upper GI endoscopy, and radiological findings all pointed to Bouveret’s syndrome, CT differential diagnosis suggested either XGC or gallbladder carcinoma, and the final diagnosis was done histopathologically. Our paper aims to increase awareness in radiologically diagnosing XGC cases by introducing the possibility of existence of Bouveret’s syndrome