A case of lipoma of the spermatic cord is presented. The patient is a 68-year-old with the chief complaint of indolent swelling of the left scrotal content which had been noticed about a month ago. A firm elastic and walnut-sized mass with positive transillumination was palpable in the left spermatic cord, but ultrasound sonography demonstrated tha...
A 3-year and 5-month old boy presented with the chief complaint of painless swelling in the scrotum, which had been noticed since birth. Under the diagnosis of intrascrotal tumor, an operation was performed. As the testis and epididymis were intact, the tumor was removed. The pathological diagnosis of the resected tumor was a well-encapsulated beni...
A recently experienced case of lipoma of the spermatic cord is reported. The patient was a 42-year-old man with the chief complaint of indolent swelling of the left scrotal contents which had been noticed about six months earlier. An elastic firm, nontender and fist-sized mass with negative transillumination was palpated in the left spermatic cord....
A case of adrenal myelolipoma is presented. The patient was a 61-year-old woman who complained of lumbago this time. A tumor of the left adrenal gland, however, had been found by computed tomography 4 years earlier. Judging from the CT, the size of this tumor had not changed at all, although the density of the mass on admission had reduced, compare...
A rare case of lipoma of the spermatic cord is reported. A 53-year-old man was admitted with painless mass in the left scrotum during the preceding one year. Since an elastic soft, tenderless, smooth surface, fist-sized and low echoic solid pattern mass in the left scrotum was suspected of tumor of the spermatic cord, resection of the mass with lef...
A blinded, retrospective review of 83 soft-tissue masses (49 benign and 34 malignant) was performed to evaluate the ability to distinguish benign from malignant soft-tissue masses with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. The correct histologic diagnosis was reached in 31% of cases by one reader and in 16% of cases by the second reader. Mean sensitivit...
The corpus callosum is the major axonal commissure of the brain, connecting the two cerebral hemispheres and providing communication between the cortical and subcortical neurons. With MR imaging in the sagittal plane, the corpus callosum can be depicted in great detail. We review the normal anatomy, development, and process of myelination of the co...
A case of giant intrascrotal lipoma is presented. The patient was a 72-year-old man with the chief complaint of painless swelling in the scrotum which had been noticed about 10 years previously. In the right scrotum, an elastic soft mass with negative transillumination was palpated. Ultrasonography and X-ray film demonstrated that it was solid mass...
