In January 1995, the Department of Pathology began highlighting a new case every month, to be called the Case of the Month. Normally, these are cases of greater than normal clinical interest, cases with unusual symptoms and/or microscopic and gross characteristics, or cases involving rare diseases or conditions. Below is a link to the current Department of Pathology Case of the Month. Also listed below are previous cases which have been highlighted as Case of the Month. Disclaimer: Review of the Case of the Month is intended for educational purposes ONLY, NOT for research. Current Case of the Month --- May 2008 Previous Cases: April 2008:  A 66-year-old male with a history of precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia now presents with an upper lip soft tissue mass March 2008:  A 35 year-old woman with a vulvar mass February 2008:  A 39-year old female with a complex renal cyst January 2008:  A 62 Year-old Male with Flank Pain and Hematuria December 2007:  A 57-year-old male with a pelvic mass November 2007:  A 41 year man with sharp pain in the right side of his rib cage September 2007:  An 18-year old woman with abdominal pain August 2007:  A 43 year old man with back pain July 2007:  An 18-year-old female with a brain mass June 2007:  A 7 year old boy with multiple skin lesions May 2007:  A 17-year-old female with a subcutaneous left thigh mass April 2007:  A 71 year old male with right flank pain March 2007:  A 46-year-old woman with constant left upper quadrant pain February 2007:  A 38-year-old man with a nodular brain mass January 2007:  5-month-old twins with turricephaly December 2006:    Case 1: A 20-month-old girl with a left calf mass   Case 2: Liver mess in a cirrhotic liver November 2006:  A 65-year-old woman with malignant lymphoma October 2006:  A 63-year-old woman with brain mets and diverticulitis September 2006:  A 4 year old boy with cardiomyopathy August 2006:  A 60 year-old woman with breast cancer and a left renal mass July 2006:  A 57 year old woman with a cerebellar mass June 2006:  A 74-year-old female with a breast mass a breast mass May 2006:    Case 1: A 69-year-old man presented with a left neck mass   Case 2: A 68 year-old female with an incidental thyroid cyst April 2006:  A 68-year old woman with a right parotid mass March 2006:  An 80-year-old man with a right paratesticular mass February 2006:  65 year old man with an enlarged thyroid January 2006:  A 79-year-old male with a lesion in the head of the pancreas December 2005:  An elderly man with a plaque-like crusted lesion of his right temple November 2005:  A 48-year-old woman with a one-year history of back pain October 2005:  A 60-year-old man with a history of headaches September 2005:  A 33 year old male with testicular discomfort August 2005:  A 13-year-old boy with neurodegeneration July 2005:  A 30 year-old female with multiple gastric polyps June 2005:  A 74 year old female with inflamed "seborrheic keratosis" on dorsum of right ankle May 2005:  A 14-year-old boy with congenital hypothyroidism April 2005:  A man in his 20s with a sudden onset of polydipsia and polyuria March 2005:  A woman in her 40s with an ovarian mass February 2005:  A female in her 20s with a thyroid mass January 2005:  A caucasian woman in her late 20s with progressive shortness of breath December 2004:  A male in his 60s with plasma cell neoplasm, favor solitary plasmacytoma of bone November 2004:  A female in her 30s with a right iliac fossa mass October 2004:  A 71 year-old man with a left testicular mass September 2004:  An infant with pain over the left scrotum August 2004:  A transplant patient with multiple cutaneous malignancies and related fatal outcome July 2004:  A woman in her 60s with an incidental finding in the left ovary June 2004:  A male in his 20s with HIV, diarrhea and abdominal pain May 2004:  A baby girl with a bulging eye April 2004:  A man in his 70s with right upper quadrant and left-sided back pain March 2004:  A woman in her 60s with hysterectomy February 2004:  A male his 40s with a pancreatic mass A young woman with an unusual "cyst" January 2004:  A woman in her 40s with endometriosis and bland glandular inclusions December 2003:  A male in his 30s with a mediastinal mass November 2003:  A male in his 70s with a brain mass October 2003:  A female in her 70s with pelvic masses September 2003:  An male in his 80s with left sided neck mass August 2003:  A teenager male with a brain mass July 2003:  Adolescents with ovarian masses June 2003:  A male in his 20s with multiple "atypical" nevi May 2003:  A man in his 70s with nausea and vomiting April 2003:  A woman in her 40s with microcalcifications on mammogram March 2003:  Ovarian mass in a woman at her 50s with endometriosis A lady in her 20s with a history of upper extremity numbness and weakness February 2003:  A 56 year old female with a pancreatic mass January 2003:  A 38 year-old male with multiple brain masses A 43 year-old woman with a palpable breast mass December 2002:  A 74 year old man with right flank pain A 64-year-old female with left nipple discharge and an inverted nipple November 2002:  A 57-year-old woman with postmenopausal bleeding A 17 year-old female with left upper neck mass October 2002:  A 27-year-old female with anaplastic ependymoma September 2002:  A nasopharyngeal mass in an 87-year-old woman August 2002:  A 74-year-old man with a right thigh mass July 2002:  A 58 year old male with hyperglycosuria and normoglycemia June 2002:  A 51 year-old woman with a nasal mass May 2002:  A 73 year old female with an enlarged axillary lymph node April 2002:  A 67 year-old man with progressive shortness of breath March 2002:  A 46 year old man with a right lower lobe pulmonary mass February 2002:  A 35 year-old man with jaundice and weight loss January 2002:  A 30-year-old male with a mass in the right ischial rectal fossa December 2001:  A 58 year old male with fevers, cutaneous nodules and cerebrovascular accident November 2001:  A 21 year old male with back pain and wobbly gait October 2001:  A 15 year old male with a left testicular mass September 2001:  A 53 year old woman with a parotid gland mass August 2001:  A 44 year-old white male with a left flank mass July 2001:  A 16 year old male with a right testicular mass June 2001:  A 15-year-old girl with an ovarian mass May 2001:  An 82 year-old woman with right-sided hydronephrosis April 2001:  A 62 year-old woman with back pain March 2001:  A 66 year-old male with a left thyroid mass February 2001:  A 71 year old woman with a mass in left breast January 2001:  A 69-year-old male with a history of colonic adenocarcinoma December 2000:  A 75-year-old male with abdominal distension, weakness and anemia November 2000:  A 59-year-old woman with a nodule in the right breast October 2000:  A 43-year-old obese female with vague left hip discomfort and low back pain September 2000:  A 71 year old woman with an adrenal mass August 2000:  A 71 year-old man with acute renal failure July 2000:  A 24-year old man with flu-like symptoms June 2000:  A 34 year old male with a large right lung mass May 2000:  A 72 year-old woman with a large anterior abdominal mass April 2000:  A 37-year-old female with sudden onset of cardiac arrhythmias following a flu-like illness March 2000:  A 67 year old post transplant patient with cutaneous nodules and ulcers February 2000:  A 56 year old woman with left facial numbness January 2000:  A 55 year old woman with solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura December 1999:  A 48 year old woman with new onset diplopia and mental status changes November 1999:  A 46 year old woman with a solid mass in the right breast October 1999:  A 39 year old man with lung abscess September 1999:  A 30 year old female with a painful left index finger August 1999:  An 84 year old man with bladder outlet obstruction July 1999:  A 19 month old boy with a renal mass June 1999:  A 64-year-old woman with a long history of irritable bowel syndrome May 1999:  A 35 year old female with shortness of breath presenting as atypical pneumonia April 1999:  A 52 year old woman with gastrointestinal bleeding and a history of rheumatoid arthritis March 1999:  A 39 year old man with lung abscess February 1999:  A 31-year-old female with a right upper quadrant cyst January 1999:  Intraventricaular mass in a 4 year old girl December 1998:  A 72 year old white female with respiratory distress November 1998:  A 72-year old man with a distal pancreatic mass October 1998:  A 63 year-old woman with right-sided mass involving kidney and liver September 1998:  A transplant recipient with fevers and mental status changes August 1998:  A 38 year old kidney transplant patient with progressive mental status change July 1998:  A 2 year old girl with right upper quadrant mass June 1998:  A 24 year old man with end-stage restrictive lung disease and liver disease May 1998:  A 35 year old woman with a history of arthralgia and myalgia April 1998:  54-year old female with a left breast mass March 1998:  A 32 year old male with recurrent fevers of unknown origin February 1998:  A 65 year old woman with renal insufficiency January 1998:  A 36 year old female with early intrauterine loss of twin B December 1997:  A 24-day-old term infant with seizures November 1997:  A nineteen year old man with progressive low back pain October 1997:  A sixty two year old man with a left supraclavicular mass September 1997:  A 67 year old man with a lytic and blastic lesion of left tibia August 1997:  A fourty-two year old woman with right breast mass July 1997:  A sixty-seven year old female with skin lesion June 1997:  A fourty two year old male with nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome May 1997:  A sixty eight year old female with a large mass in the right kidney April 1997:  A thirty-three year old woman with post coital bleeding and vaginal discharge March 1997:  Sixty nine year old male with pigmented lesion on his right ear February 1997:  Sixty eight year old male with renal insufficiency January 1997:  Fifty-nine year old male with lung mass December 1996:  Fourty-four year old HIV positive man died following bleeding from mouth and nose November 1996:  Two year old girl with skin lesion on right arm October 1996:  Fourty-four year old woman with new brain lesion September 1996:  Retroperitoneal masses in a 45 year old man and a 42 year old woman August 1996:  Nine 1/2 year old boy with pain in left proximal medial thigh July 1996:  A thirty eight year old female with phrynoderma following gastric bypass surgery June 1996:  Sixty year old man with coccygeal mass May 1996:  Seventy-four year old man with a history of scleroderma and recent rapidly progressive renal insufficiency April 1996:  Complete heart block in a 9 year old boy status post small bowel and kidney transplants March 1996:  Sixty-five year old female with Right Neck Mass February 1996:  Seventy-three year old man with acute renal failure January 1996:  Twenty month old old male with left paravertebral mass December 1995:  Fifty-five year old male with neck mass November 1995:  Fifty-five year old female with hemoptysis October 1995:  Fifty four year old male with a right cheek mass September 1995:  Seventy year old male with a gastric mass July 1995:  Fifty-seven year old female with an anterior mediastinal mass June 1995:  Seventy-nine year old male with frontal headaches May 1995:  Sixty-nine year old female with a renal mass April 1995:  Forty-four year old female with left lower quadrant pain and diarrhea March 1995:  Eighty year old female with a neck mass February 1995:  Twenty-five year old female with a liver mass January 1995:  Posterior fossa mass in a two month old female