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.
A 61 year-old man with epigastric pain last month.
Ultrasound detected accidentally a # 26 mm fishbone which perforated his stomach. On transverse section the fishbone looked like a gastric ulcer. Lab data were in normal values.
MSCT confirmed a fishbone perforating the stomach with the free end into the abdominal cavity.
Endoscopic surgery removed the fishbone from the pyloric wall of the stomach to the peritoneum.
A 43 year-old female nurse with her right knee pain and slight swelling during 3 months. Her 20 year old history noted she got TB cervical lymph nodes.
Ultrasound detected a #36x35mm mass of the right lateral femoral muscle [biceps femorii] at the 1/3 lower thigh. The muscular mass has unclear border, mixed echogenic and hypovascular. Maybe it was a tuberculous myositis ?
There was edema of the synovial membrane into the knee joint # 46x48 mm.
No fluid collection nor bone destruction existed of the right knee joint.
MRI confirmed the right knee mass which was between the femoral biceps and popliteal muscle but could not differentiate hemangioma, tenosynovial giant cell tumor, soft tissue sarcoma...from each others.
