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Interdigital neuromas Symptoms, Causes, Tests, Treatment

Interdigital neuromas, a non-malignant tumor, causes pain in the foot toes; mostly swelling or nerve enlargement may be due to nerve damage. It is also coined as forefoot neuroma or as Morton's neuroma.What is Interdigital neuromas?Interdigital neuroma, a benign nerve tumor that causes the nerve tissues' thickening, may grow in various parts of the body....

Inverted papilloma Staging, Recurrence, Surgery

Papillomas are benign tumors of epithelial layers that have finger-like projections that grow outwards. But inverted papillomas grow inward, towards the bone. Papillomas are locally aggressive but tend to metastasis; chances of recurring are very high, about 40-75%. Squamous cell carcinoma is associated with inverted papillomas. The tumor can be observed through MRI images. Mucosal...

Episacral lipoma Symptoms, Causes, Location, Treatment

In today's world, most people complain about back pain, but every back pain is not the result of old age or bad posture. Suppose a person feels pain in his lower back and feels disability, so a person might have an episacral lipoma, one of the most common types of pain in the lower back's...

Acinar cell carcinoma Symptoms, Survival Rate, Causes, Treatment

Acinar cell carcinoma is the neoplasm of the epithelial cells, and it is called because it resembles acinar cells and due to the production of pancreatic exocrine enzymes. It's ratio of occurrence is mostly high in the male gender, especially with above age 60. Females are less prone to it in comparison with the male,...

Necrobiotic Xanthogranuloma Images, Symptoms, Causes, Treatment

What is Necrobiotic Xanthogranuloma?The Necrobiotic Xanthogranuloma is a type of Orbital Xanthogranulomatous disorder. It is a rare, chronic, progressive form of Non-Langerhan Histiocytosis. It is characterized by the yellowish plaques, lesions and nodules. The Necrobiotic Xanthogranuloma commonly occurs in the periorbital area. Necrobiotic Xanthogranuloma Symptoms The Necrobiotic Xanthogranloma, a type of Non-Langerhan cell histiocytosis, is a yellow...

Epithelioid angiosarcoma stage 4 Symptoms, Causes, Survival Rate

What is Epithelioid angiosarcoma?Epithelioid angiosarcoma is a rare type of angiosarcoma. The epithelioid angiosarcoma is a malignant cancer of endothelial cells. It arises in the soft tissues, but primary sites such as thyroid, skin, adrenals, and bone are also encountered. Angiosarcoma is the malignant neoplasm of the mesenchymal cell in which cancer cells exhibit endothelial...

Hibernoma location, symptoms, causes, treatment

What is Hibernoma?Hibernoma is a type of rare, benign tumour derived from brown fat. It arises from the remnants of the fetal brown adipose tissues. Brown adipose tissue or Brown fat is one of the two types of adipose tissue present in the body. Brown adipose tissues have dark red to tan colour because they...

klatskin Tumor Types, Treatment, Prognosis, Life Expectancy

Klatskin tumor commonly known as hilar cholangiocarcinoma (cholangiocarcinoma) is characterized by the cancer of the biliary tree majorly involving the junctions of right and left hepatic ducts.This cancerous disorder was firstly introduced in 1965 by Gerald Klatskin, who reported 15 cases of this disease.The major underlying cause of this disease has not been defined yet...

Ommaya Reservoir Complications, Removal, Indications, Side Effects

An Ommaya reservoir is mainly a plastic-based drug delivery system characterized as an intraventricular catheter system that consists of a catheter in an adjacent ventricle further attached to a tank which is inserted under the scalp area.This system majorly used in chemotherapy for the delivery or direct administration of the drugs into the cerebrospinal fluid...

Thymoma Prognosis, Diagnosis, Symptoms, Staging

Thymoma is characterized as a growth or tumor of the thymus gland mainly located in the epithelial cells of the specified organ. It can be either benign or malignant in nature.Thymomas are generally described by professionals according to their extent of spread from the thymus gland to other parts of the body. In most cases,...