This is a case report describing a patient at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Oman, with recurrent local breast cancer and axillary lymph node metastasis. The cancer was detected with 99Tc-m tetrofosmin scintimammography after an equivocal mammography study.
We describe the first case of Graves’ disease occurring at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Oman, in a patient who was under treatment with interferon alfa for HCV infection. INF-α is now being widely used to treat patients with a variety of disorders including infection with hepatitis C virus. Clinical thyroid disea …
Agenesis and hypoplasia of left-sided pulmonary artery anomalies have been infrequently reported. The majority of cases are diagnosed in childhood, but occasionally some asymptomatic cases are first recognised in adulthood when detected by an abnormal chest radiograph. We report a twenty-one year old female patient wit …
Multiple bone metastases from a differentiated thyroid cancer are usually incurable. We report the case of a young Omani woman who presented with 8 discrete skeletal lesions three years after a total thyroidectomy. Following four ablation doses of I-131 she has remained in clinical and biochemical remission for over fi …
سرطان الثدي هو السبب الأكثر شيوعًا للإصابات النقيية في الهيكل العظمي، والعظام هي الموقع الأكثر شيوعًا لعودة سرطان الثدي. تؤثر نقائل سرطان الثدي بشكل شائع على العمود الفقري والأضلاع والحوض والعظام الطويلة القريبة؛ ومع ذلك، فإن 3.5% فقط من مرضى سرطان الثدي يصابون بنقائل في العظام الطويلة. يعتبر عظم العضد هو الموقع الأكثر …