Mucinous neoplasms occur rarely in association with cystic teratoma, Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor, granulosa cell tumor or carcinoid tumor. Several cases of an ovarian stromal tumor with minor sex-cord elements have been reported in the literatures. However, there has been no report about an ovarian mucinous neoplasm coexisting with a stromal tumor with sex-cord elements yet. We report a case of a...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the expression of B7-H1 and B7-H4 in ovarian neoplasm tissues and to examine their clinical relevance. A total of 112 ovarian biopsies were collected from patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) and 10 were taken from ovarian benign neoplasms. The samples were processed in paraffin tissue chips, and subjected to immunohistochemical staining ...

INTRODUCTION Sarcomas of the ovary can either be histologically pure or can represent components of a more complex tumor. Ovarian angiosarcomas are rare, and probably arise from carcinosarcomas, teratomas or the rich ovarian vasculature. To date, only two small case series have been published, one with four cases and the other with seven. CASE PRESENTATION A 41-year-old Saudi woman presented ...

Background: Massive cystic degeneration of the uterine myoma might mimic an ovarian tumor, especially a malignant causing misdiagnosis. We present case woman with marked leiomyoma mimicking neoplasm. Case: A 65-year-old (gravida 6, para 6) visited us due to abdominal tumor. Clinical examination and radiology exploration suggested presence tumour. The patient underwent total hysterectomy bilater...

Uterine fibroids are the most common uterine neoplasm of uterus and the female pelvis and the most common indication for hysterectomy worldwide. When the fibroid is large and fills the whole pelvis or is pedunculated, it becomes difficult to differentiate from ovarian mass clinically. Cervical fibroids pose enormous surgical difficulty by virtue of their relative inaccessibility and proximity t...

CONTEXT An intraductal oncocytic papillary neoplasm is a rare pancreatic tumor which was first described by Adsay et al. in 1996. It has been defined as a new subgroup of IPMN. CASE REPORT We report the case of a 76-year-old woman who presented with nausea. Imaging studies revealed a cystic mass in the body of the pancreas. She underwent a successful distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy, and...

background: carcinoma of the fallopian tube is extremely uncommon neoplasm, accounting for only 0.3% of gynecologic cancers. case: a 17-year-old female patient presented with clinical symptoms of right side deep pelvic pain. ultrasound examination reveals right adenxal mass with breakdown suggesting neoplastic lesion or tubo-ovarian abscess. she was diagnosed clinically as tubo-ovarian mass for...

Ovarian cancer is a common gynecologic aggressive neoplasm. The mortality of ovarian top among malignancies due to the insidious onset, atypical early symptoms, and chemoresistance. Therefore, it urgent seek another promising treatment for cancer. Purified vitexin compound 1 (VB1) kind neolignan from seed traditional Chinese herb vitex negundo that possessed diverse pharmacological effects. VB1...