earache/sarcoma

Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and less frequently nasopharyngeal carcinomas are the most common malignancies located in the parameningeal region in children. OBJECTIVE To assess diagnostic and therapeutic problems in children with parameningeal STS treated in the Departments of

Myeloid sarcoma is a rare malignant extramedullary neoplasm of myeloid precursor cells. This disorder may occur in concomitance with or precede development of acute or chronic myeloid leukemia. Sometimes, it is the initial manifestation of relapse in a previously treated acute myeloid leukemia. We

A 12-year-old boy presented with a history of earache, fever and granuloma of the auditory canal. Biopsy revealed embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma. The patient was treated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy, which led to complete disappearance of the tumor without recurrence after three years.

Malignant neoplasms localized in the parameningeal region include mainly soft tissue sarcomas (MTM), non-Hodgkin s lymphomas (NHL-B) and, less frequently, nasopharyngeal carcinomas. The aim of the study was to analyze diagnostic and therapeutic problems in children with parameniingeal neoplasms

BACKGROUND Cancer of the nasopharynx poses diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties because of the hidden nature of the nasopharyngeal space, which allows for significant spread of the disease before diagnosis and hence poor prognosis. OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical and histological

We present a rare case of temporal bone angiosarcoma diagnosed in a 26-year-old female patient at 36 week of pregnancy. The patient was referred with a 2 months history of left otalgia and tinnitus with a tender swelling above the mastoid. Cranial imaging studies showed a 7 x 5 x 4 cm