Fallopian tube cancer is least common of all gynecologic tumors, with the mean age at onset between 54 and 63 years. This case report presents a 67-year-old female, gravida 1, para 1, with primary adenocarcinoma of the fallopian tube, detected and diagnosed preoperatively in clinical stage IIIc. The patient was asymptomatic, with only mild vaginal discharge of amber color and normal measured va...

Fibroids are the most common gynecologic tumors. Our case discusses the outcome of a 47-year-old woman who presented to our clinic with cachexia, and a giant abdominal mass. An initial diagnostic imaging workup consisted of X-Ray, CT, and ultrasound and indicated a possible diagnosis of leiomyosarcoma. However, after surgical evaluation, she was diagnosed pathologically with an atypical present...

Bladder schwannomas are exceedingly rare, benign or malignant, nerve sheath tumors that are most often discovered in patients with a known diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). A few sporadic case reports of bladder schwannoma have been published in urologic, obstetric/gynecologic, and pathologic journals. However, this is the first case report in the radiologic literature where computed...

logic Oncology (ASGO) 1st Biennial Meeting Tokyo in 2009, the ASGO 2nd Biennial Meeting was held in the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Seoul from the 3 to 5 November 2011 and again, it was a resounding success. It saw active participation from 15 Asian countries as well as 5 non Asian countries (USA, UK, Canada, Germany, and Eritrea). The total number of registrants was 622 with a total of 226 abstract su...

Uterine fibroids are benign gynecologic tumors, and women aged between 30 to 50 years known have a high incidence of uterine fibroids. A growing number pharmacotherapies minimally invasive organ-preserving treatments been designed conducted over the past few years. However, there has not any therapeutic drugs exhibiting an ideal effect low recurrence rate, such that surgical treatment continues...

Malignant pericardial effusion (MPE) is a slowly progressive and potentially clinically silent condition. Pericardial can arise in oncology patients due to several factors, including disease spreading directly or metastatically, anticancer therapy side effects, both. Solid hematological malignancy metastasis more frequently involves the pericardium than primary tumors, with lung cancer being mo...

Purpose: To review incidence, presentation, diagnostic methods, management, significance and avoidance of ureteral injuries in gynecologic laparoscopy. Materials and methods: PubMed, National Center for Biotechnology Information Database, Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, obstetrics and gynecology journal, google images were reviewed to gather information regarding ureteral i...

Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) is a three-domain polypeptide, which binds to Claudin-3 and Claudin-4 with high affinity. Because these receptors are highly differentially expressed in many human tumors, claudin-3 and claudin-4 may provide an efficient molecular tool to specifically identify and target biologically aggressive human cancer cells for CPE-specific binding and cytolysis. ...

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy in the developed world. Most cases are diagnosed at an early stage and have low-grade histology, portending an overall excellent prognosis. There exists a subgroup of patients with early, high-risk disease, whose management remains controversial, as current data is clouded by inclusion of early stage tumors with different high-risk fe...

Japan Society of Gynecologic Oncology (JSGO) recently revised its Ovarian Cancer Treatment Guidelines and the 4th edition will be released next year. This Guidelines state that lymphadenectomy is essential to allow accurate assessment of the clinical stage in early ovarian cancer, but there is no randomized controlled trial that shows any therapeutic efficacy of lymphadenectomy. In patients wit...