Primary appendiceal malignancies are rare and account for less than 0.5% of all gastrointestinal tumors [1]. While these tumors are not very common, they have a tendency for ovarian spread when they disseminate beyond the appendix. Most of them are presented at the emergency room with nonspecific symptoms, such as acute abdominal pain and huge pelvic mass, mimicking advanced stage ovarian cance...

Peritoneal cytology is crucial in the diagnosis and staging of abdominal pelvic malignancies. Diagnostic pitfalls can be avoided by having an understanding different methods sampling, a familiarity with cytomorphology various specimen types, adequate clinical history, ability to prepare cell blocks and/or review other prior or concurrent specimens. Ovarian cancer second most frequent type gynec...

IntroductionMalignant neoplasms of the female genital tract accounts for majority cancers in females.The incidence and pattern malignancies vary from region to due differences ingenetic patterns, lifestyle sociocultural factors. The objective this research is study thehistopathological spectrum neoplastic lesions reproductive system. MethodsA total 309 samples were included period January2017 D...

The aim of the study was to determine a combination of anthropometric variables that would enable better differentiation between benign and malignant ovarian masses. Prospective study has been performed in a two year period in which 208 women with ovarian lesions were analyzed and correlated with histopathologic surgical findings. We examined the relation between self-reported anthropometric an...

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Cancer predisposition in some families is known to be the result of germ-line mutations. The most noteworthy hereditary gynecologic cancer syndromes include hereditary breast-ovarian cancer (HBOC) syndrome, wherein BRCA1 and BRCA2 germ-line mutations have been identified, and hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) of the Lynch syndrome II variant, wherein hMSH2, hMLH1, hPMS2, hMSH3, ...

BACKGROUND Relatives of patients with early onset colorectal cancer, a feature of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), are at increased risk of colorectal cancer. AIMS To investigate risk in relatives of patients with multiple primary cancers, another feature of HNPCC. METHODS Details were obtained on patients from one region who had developed colorectal cancer and a separate...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate relative values of the intervals between symptom onset and clinical presentation in cancer patients and to correlate them with diagnosis of distant metastasis. METHODS Cancer registry and medical records of all cancer patients for over a 10-year period in a medical center of Japan were reviewed. We examined the intervals of symptom onset to clinical presentat...