we have refined the technique for isolating and propagating cultures of primary ovarian carcinosarcoma cells (oscs) derived from ascites, which allowed the cells to obtain the biphasic features of carcinosarcoma in cell culture conditions (presence of both carcinoma and mesenchymal morphologic types). this protocol involves a simple yet rapid method for the growth and propagation of ascites osc...

Intraocular medulloepithelioma is a rare embryonal neoplasm that occurs predominantly in children and arises from the primitive medullary epithelium of the optic cup. Medulloepitheliomas that contain heterotopic elements or tissues such as brain, cartilage, or rhabdomyoblasts are classified as teratoid, and tumors lacking these elements are classified as nonteratoid medulloepitheliomas. Both no...

UNLABELLED Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor is predominantly a childhood tumor and has only been rarely reported in adults; therefore, treatment regimens are often extrapolated from the pediatric experience. Typically, children are treated with craniospinal radiation therapy which is often followed by systemic chemotherapy. Employing pediatric regimens to treat this tumor in adult patients pose...

The Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) has conducted multiple trials related to malignancies of the uterine corpus. Recently, several of these trials have been presented and/or published. Areas of focus included the feasibility of laparoscopic staging for endometrial cancer, the adjuvant management of locally advanced endometrial cancer, whole abdominal irradiation in maximally resected advanced ...

BACKGROUND Carcinosarcoma is a malignancy that rarely occurs in the renal pelvis. MATERIALS AND METHODS We present a case of histologically proven, native renal pelvis carcinosarcoma in a 65-year-old woman who had accepted a renal transplant. We performed a laparoscopic ureterectomy, combined with lymph node dissection and immunosuppression with sirolimus (SRL), which was alternated with the ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The purpose of the study is to report two long-term survivors with ovarian carcinosarcomas, which are rare intrapelvic malignancies with unfavorable prognosis. METHODS Two middle-aged women with palpable abdominal tumors underwent complete cytoreductive surgery and no macroscopic tumor was left behind. Early postoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy with doxorubicin was used ...