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Angiosarcoma is a rare, aggressive endothelial malignancy with a poor prognosis; diagnosis is often delayed by vague symptoms, nonspecific imaging, and challenging histopathology.
Read caseA 12-year-old immunocompetent girl presented with high fever, severe headache, and diplopia, followed by rapid neurological deterioration.
A patient with multiple myeloma receiving maintenance teclistamab, daratumumab, and lenalidomide developed rapidly progressive brainstem-cerebellar encephalitis.
A 34-year-old man presented with sudden severe non-radicular low-back pain but no neurological deficit. MRI showed multiple enhancing intradural extramedullary lesions from T12-L1 to S1; the dominant T12-L1 lesion…
A patient with mismatch repair-deficient glioblastoma had a recurrent tumor in which testing identified a second SMARCB1 mutation and complete loss of SMARCB1/INI1 protein expression.
A 47-year-old woman presented with dysphagia and a left-sided neck mass. Initial fine-needle aspiration was non-diagnostic; repeat sampling suggested a spindle cell neoplasm.
A 21-year-old woman was found to have an osteochondroma arising from the tip of the coracoid process. The report describes preoperative clinical assessment and radiological investigation, with histopathological…
A 5-month-old boy presented with fever and abdominal distension that progressed to intestinal obstruction and multiple perforations involving the distal ileum and appendiceal region.
A 73-year-old woman with B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia developed marrow relapse after blinatumomab exposure.
Four adults aged 27–40 years presented with neurological Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD), with manifestations including cerebellar ataxia, dysarthria, tremor, visual deterioration, and headache.
A 52-year-old man presented with five months of enlarging left lacrimal swelling, proptosis, and mildly reduced visual acuity. CT showed a well-defined 9 × 12 mm orbital lesion without bone erosion or local invasion.
A woman with late-onset Niemann-Pick disease type C1 presented from age 50 with progressive postural instability, falls, spastic ataxia, and prominent upper-limb hyperkinetic movements.
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