Ovarian Tumour with Masculinizing Syndrome

Is Reducing Ovarian Volume in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Patients after Administration of Metformin Associated with Improving Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Ovary: Sex cord-stromal tumors

There appear to be several established clinical syndromes associated with several subtypes of sex cord-stromal tumours. 30% of patients with sex cord tumours with annular tubules have Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS), an autosomal dominant disorder characterised by multiple gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyps, increased risk of various neoplasms, and melanocytic macules of the lips, buccal mucosa...

Conservative Management of Ovarian Fibroma in A Case of Gorlin-Goltz Syndrome Comorbid with Endometriosis

Ovarian fibromas are the most common benign solid ovarian tumors, which preoperative diagnosis often is difficult. Ovarian fibromas, especially in bilateral cases, may be representative of Gorlin syndrome.Gorlin syndrome (GS) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder with predisposition to basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) and other various benign and malignant tumors. To report a case of a young patien...

Meigs syndrome with blood-stained effusion.

in 1937 Meigs and Cass described the case of a patient with ascites and hydrothorax in association with a benign ovarian tumour in which removal of the tumour relieved the patient of the ascites and chest fluid. Later that year Rhoads and Terrell (1937) published a further case and proposed the name Meigs syndrome for this clinical pictture. In 1954 Meigs collected all reports in the English la...

Transfer RNA methylase activity in benign human ovarian neoplasms.

A series of 16 benign human ovarian neoplasms of either stromal or epithelial origin, with one exception, showed transfer RNA methylase specific activity and tRNA-methylating capacity comparable to that of normal ovarian tissue and not to malignant ovarian tumor tissue. The exception was an arrhenoblastoma, a rare masculinizing type of tumor which, although classified as benign, is known to hav...