CASE 401: BIG MASS beside HEART, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr NGUYỄN TUẤN VŨ, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM

Man 41 yo with short breathing  in hard working. Chest X-Ray detected big mass in left upper lung (chest x-ray film).

Echocardio scanning  by cardiologist detected big cystic mediastinum tumor,  with think wall and calcification, size of 12 cm.

MSCT CE of thorax  and radiologist report is cystic teratoma.

OPERATION THORACOTOMY= THIS TUMOR IS  RUPTURED AND LEAKOUT  WHITE FLUID AND INTRA TUMOR IS SEBUM  AND SOME HAIR.

Microscopic report is mature cystic teratoma of thymus.

CASE 400: NEONATE TESTIS TORSION, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr LÊ VĂN TÀI, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM

Neonate  3 days old with  right swelling scrotum and left darker scrotum ( foto).

Ultrasound   US 1 = small right  testis  and  hydrocele vaginalis.

US 2 = left testis is  hypoechoic and no blood supply.

US 3 = cross section of  left testis.   

Sonologist reported  torsion of left testis  long time ago, maybe intrapartum stage

Operation= removed  left testis  torsion in 3 wings roller and black color.

Microscopic report is left  testis necrosis.

Conclusion=   Torsion of testis detected  at neonate time.

Reference:
http://www.jpss.eu/index.php/current-issue/item/558-bilateral-testicular-torsion-in-a-neonate-a-case-report

http://synapse.koreamed.org/Synapse/Data/PDFData/1020KJU/kju-49-957.pdf

http://file.scirp.org/pdf/CRCM_2013032513030136.pdf

CASE 399: HCC GOING TO HEART, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI- Dr NGUYỄN TUẤN VŨ, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM

MAN 66 yo with CHEST PAIN and DYSPNEA. EMERGENCY ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY DETECTED  INTRA CARDIAC MASS, LOOKED LIKE THROMBUS.

ULTRASOUND SCAN of LIVER DETECTED a LIVER MASS SIZE of 4cm and DILATED 2cm in DIAMETER and OBSTRUCTED by A HYPOECHOIC MASS ( US 1, US 2).

MSCT with CE DETECTED LIVER MASS and TUMOR INVASION TO HEPATIC VEIN TO IVC and GOING to RIGHT ATRIUM and FILLING DEFECTED at PULMONARY ARTERY (CT1, CT2).

CT3 (section) SHOWED LIVER MASS, RIGHT ATRIUM MASS and INTRA LEFT VENTRICULAR MASS.

BLOOD TEST = HCV POSITIVE; WAKO TEST = TRIPLE POSITIVE.

CONCLUSION: HCC GOING TO HEART.

Reference : CASE  286

http://www.ultrasoundmedicvn.com/2014/12/case-286-hcc-going-to-heart-dr-phan.html

CASE 398: ECTOPIC THYROID GLAND, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr TRẦN THỊ BẢO CHÂU, Dr NGUYỄN THIỆN CHÂU

Woman 48 yo, PARA 2002, in general check-up, sonologist  detected no thyroid gland at normal location (US 1).

Blood tests reported  TSH= 11.47 microIU/mL (n= 0.3-5 microIU/mL),  Free T4= 0.985 ng/dL ( n= 0.7-1.85 ng/dL).

Ultrasound  again..detected  one mass  at  basal tongue,  size of 3x4 cm, hypoechoic,  hypovascular  (US 3, US 4).

MSCT with CE  detected  intralingual  mass which is  very quick  enhanced of  CE, size of  4 cm (CT1, CT 2, CT3).

CTA  detected  no thyroid arteries both  superior or inferior branches from the CCA and  ECA ( CT 4)

Conclusion=  Ectopic thyroid gland  intra basal lingual type.

Reference
reference case 319 medic link case-319-lingual-thyroid  

CASE 397: NERVE TUMOR, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr NGUYỄN NGHIỆP VĂN, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

Boy 17yo with pain at anterior brachial region both 2 sides. Clinical palpation revealed many small subcutaneous nodules, size as a pepper nut, painful at palpation ; and swelling neck (see chest XRays).

Ultrasound scanning of the antebrachial areas detected many small ellypsoid nodules along the arterial way looked like the nerve ( US 1, US 2: longitudinal scan and cross-section).

US 3, US 4 scan at the carotid detected hypoechoic mass along the carotid sites  which belong to vagus nerves 2 sites.

US 5, US 6 scan at left carotid= big size vagus nerve, hypoechoic #1.5 cm in diameter at cross section.

MRI of the neck and thorax= MRI 1, MRI 2: hypertrophic nodular vagus nervi go to  mediastinum.

MRI 3: lateral view of the neck; MRI 4 = cross section of vagus nerve at the neck in relation with carotid artery.

MRI 5: hypertrophic intercostal nerve at thorax.

Biopsy of  the subcutaneous nodule at forearm  reported  neurofibroma in microscopic result.