Tuberculosis of the vulva is very rare. It is found in about 0.2% of the cases of genital tract tuberculosis. It usually presents as small shallow ulcers and multiple sinus tracts or rarely as elephantiasis of vulva. Except for very rare cases of primary tuberculosis in the vulva, it is usually associated with tuberculosis elsewhere in the body leading to secondary tuberculosis. Here, we report...

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most common malignancy of the female genital tract in Western countries: 1–2% of all women develop EOC at some time during their lives. Most women with EOC present with peritoneal spread, the principal cause of morbidity and mortality. Owing to the paucity of symptoms and their insidious onset, most patients present with advanced disease, and five year sur...

Introduction Recent developments in molecular cytogenetics and molecular cell biology have born fruits as new medical strategies. In the field of diagnostic surgical pathology, the introduction of so-called molecular diagnostics appears to be based on such trends. Although most female genital tract tumors have not fully been studied molecular-cytogenetically, the concept, nomenclature, and the ...

The present study is conducted to demonstrate the value of direct smear examinations ( Gram stain and wet mount ) of vaginal discharge from infected female patients. The diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis and other infections were carried out by direct gram stained smear and wet mount preparations of vaginal discharge in 1004 cases of various infections affecting these patients. Gram stain was a ...

Efforts to develop vaccines that can elicit mucosal immune responses in the female genital tract against sexually transmitted infections have been hampered by an inability to measure immune responses in these tissues. The differential expression of adhesion molecules is known to confer site-dependent homing of circulating effector T cells to mucosal tissues. Specific homing molecules have been ...

Primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) arise from Kulchitsky cells and are rarely seen in the female genital tract. Differential diagnosis of PNET can be made based on immunohistochemical profiles and genetic analyses. Genital tract pNETs are very aggressive pathologies with different clinical and molecular manifestations and there are no standard guidelines for treatment. We aimed to present t...