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Giant Cells* ; Granuloma, Giant Cell*

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Giant Cell Tumors* ; Giant Cells*

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Giant Cells* ; Granuloma, Giant Cell*

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Giant Cell Tumors* ; Giant Cells*

No abstract available.
Giant Cell Tumors* ; Giant Cells*

Mineralizing pulmonary elastosis is a result of chronic alveolar hemorrhage forming iron encrustation of a pulmonary elastic tissue. It has been reported as a complication of some diseases such as bronchiectasis, idiopathic pulmonary hemosiderosis, and cardiac failure. It is extremely rare to occur with a giant cell carcinoma as we experienced. A 59 year-old man visited our hospital for cough and blood tinged sputum. A chest CT scan revealed 10 9 6 cm sized round mass in the left upper lobe. He had lobectomy of left upper lobe, but died of respiratory failure at the postoperative eighteenth day. The lung showed a necrotic tumor and a yellow tan consolidation around the mass. Microscopically, the tumor was composed of nests or syncytia of large bizarre cells and tumor giant cells, and was diagnosed as a giant cell carcinoma. Interestingly, in the surrounding lung parenchyma there were a lot of foreign body type giant cells phagocytizing iron encrustated elastic fibers, which were easily identified by elastic van Gieson and prussian blue stains. Those degenerated elastic fibers appeared in pulmonary interstitial tissue as well as blood vessel walls. The authors concluded tumoral hemorrhage and necrosis resulted in mineralizing pulmonary elastosis.
Blood Vessels ; Bronchiectasis ; Carcinoma, Giant Cell* ; Coloring Agents ; Cough ; Elastic Tissue ; Giant Cells* ; Giant Cells, Foreign-Body ; Heart Failure ; Hemorrhage ; Hemosiderosis ; Humans ; Iron ; Lung ; Middle Aged ; Necrosis ; Respiratory Insufficiency ; Sputum ; Tolnaftate ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed ; Triacetoneamine-N-Oxyl

This clinical & histopathological study was performed with 48 cases of cutaneous tuberculoeis among 44460 cases of out patient in Dermatologic clinc of St. Mary's hospital, Catholic Medical College, from 1970 to l974. These 48 cases were consistent with skin tuberculosis in histological and clinical findings. The results are follows. I. Clinieal observation. 1) The incidence of skin tuberculosis is 0. 1%, among 44460 cases of out patients. 2) Localized type of skin tuberculosis is l. 4 times more than disseminated type. 3) The ratio between male and female is 2. 4: l. 4) The age of onset is different from type to type, but 70. 8% of all cases occured before the age of 29. 5) Common skin tuberculosis is Erythema induratum (31. 3%),Lupus Vulgaris (20.8%) and Papulonerotic tuberculid (12.5%)II. Histopathological observation. 1) Only 12. 5% of the cases showes typical structure of tubercle in dermis and subcutis. 2) Caseation necrosis showes in 47% and their amounts are different between the types. 3) About 75% of cases showes Langhans giant cells but some of the cases show foreign body giant cells in tubercle or tuberculoid structures. 4) Vessels are involved in all of the cases. Main changes are wall proliferation, degeneration and perivascular infiltration. 5) A.F.B. stain showes negative in all cases.
Age of Onset ; Dermis ; Erythema Induratum ; Female ; Giant Cells, Foreign-Body ; Giant Cells, Langhans ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Necrosis ; Outpatients ; Skin* ; Tuberculosis, Cutaneous*

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Giant Cell Tumor of Bone* ; Giant Cell Tumors* ; Giant Cells*

Giant cell tumor which is arisen at vertebra is rare and this tumor of the cervical vertebra has been very rarely reported tumor which is less than 1% of all giant cell tumor. When the treatment option is considered, the curretage is often selected rather than total resection because the anatomic relationship of adjacent structures is complicated and there are major vessels and organs around the cervical vertebra. The prognosis of this tumor is decided by degree of resection so, total sponylectomy should be considered as primary surgical option. We report a case of cervical giant cell tumor in which the total spondylectomy was performed successfully and discuss the feasibility of this procedure at cervical region.
Giant Cell Tumors* ; Giant Cells* ; Prognosis ; Spine*

Giant Cells* ; Granuloma, Giant Cell* ; Skin*