Hye Kyung Ahn

Necrotizing sialometaplasia accompanied by adenoid cystic carcinoma on the soft palate.

Necrotizing Sialometaplasia (NS) is a benign, self-limiting inflammatory disease of the mucus-secreting glands, and this illness mainly involves the minor salivary glands. The significance of NS resides in its clinical and histopathological resemblance to malignancy. We present here a case of necrotizing sialometaplasia on the soft palate, and this was accompanied by adenoid cystic carcinoma. We report here on this case to draw attention to the difficulty for deciding the extent of resecting a malignancy, and especially when the malignancy is simultaneously accompanied by necrotizing sialometaplasia.

T-cell non-Hodgkim lymphoma associated with chronic tuberculous empyema: case report

Malignant neoplasm associated with long-standing pleuritis or empyema is rare but a critical complication. Among 67 cases which were reported in English and ]apanese literatures, the cause of empyema was considered to be tubercu\osis in 51 cases. The most common malignant disease associated with the long-standing pleural disease was non-Hodgk.in lymphoma (NHL) , and the majority of the malignant lymphomas were B-cell type. Detection of the malignancy combined with an empyema is difficult, however, chest radiograph or CT may show the evidence of malignant pleural disease We report a case of pathologically proven T -cell type malignant NHL associated with chronic tuberculous empyema in a 66-year-old male patient.