Most women with ovarian cancer are diagnosed at an advanced stage and there are few therapeutic options. Recently, monoclonal antibody therapies have had limited success, thus more effective antibodies are needed to improve long-term survival. In this report, we prepared polyclonal rabbit anti-ovarian cancer antibody (Poly Ab) by immunizing rabbits with the human ovarian cancer cell line SKOV3....

background: spontaneous ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome rarely occurs during pregnancy and is usually associated with high levels of human chorionic gonadotropin, in conditions such as molar or multifetal pregnancies. case report: here we report spontaneous ovarian hyperstimulation in a patient presenting with missed abortion at 16th week of gestation, when serum ß-subunit human chorionic gon...

this study was designed to determine the prevalence of bipolar disorder in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (pco). one hundred and ten women with definite diagnosis of pco and one hundred and ten age-matched infertile women due to other reasons except for pco were enrolled in this case-control study. ten ml fasting venous blood sample obtained to measure fasting glucose, lh and fsh. heigh...

INTRODUCTION We report an unusual case of a large cystic, pedunculated uterine leiomyoma mimicking a primary malignant ovarian tumour on sonography and computed tomography (CT). CLINICAL PICTURE A 56-year-old post-menopausal woman presented with a right pelviabdominal mass. Sonography and CT examination showed a large extrauterine mass arising from the right adnexa and extending into the abdo...

Adenomatoid tumor of the ovary is rare, and so are collision tumors in this location. The most common histological combination of ovarian collision tumors is the coexistence of mature cystic teratoma with ovarian cystadenoma or cystadenocarcinoma. Presented herein is a rare case of ovarian adenomatoid tumor found incidentally and coexisting with mature cystic teratoma. A 44-year-old woman prese...

thromboembolic phenomena are the serious consequences of assisted reproductive technology. we present a case of cerebral sinus vein thrombosis (cvst) following ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome (ohss). ten days after recovering from ohss, the patient presented in the emergency department with thunderclap headache. her magnetic resonance venography (mrv) showed occluded left transverse sinus an...

background: polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos) has been shown to cause a reduction in health-related quality of life (hrqol). objective:  this study examines the extent of different clinical symptoms in pcos patients on hrqol. materials and methods:  a cross-sectional study was undertaken to ascertain the factors related to hrqol in 200 pcos patients in kashan, iran. main outcome measures were ...

Five adult female goats were brought to our veterinary hospital with infertility. Ultrasonography showed what seemed to be hydrometra or cystic lesion in the genital region of 18-month-old twin local breed female goats. After slaughter of the does and excision of the genital tract, a macroscopic examination revealed bilateral hydrosalpinx and extreme dilation of the ovarian bursa with complete ...

Involvement of the ovary by malignant lymphoma is well known as late manifestation disseminated disease. Primary ovarian lymphoma(POL) extremely rare , accounting for 0.5 % all NHLs and 1.5% neoplasms1 . We here in describe a case Large B cell Lymphoma involving bilateral ovaries 34 year old female.Preoperative CT imaging showed heterogenous soft tissue masses with cystic areas both ovaries. Sh...