Ovarian fibroma is the commonest benign tumor of the ovarian stroma. The cellular subtype accounts for around 10% of ovarian fibromatous tumors. The cellular fibroma is a tumor of uncertain malignant potential that may recur or be associated with peritoneal implants. Usually these are solid tumors, sometimes with small areas of cystic degeneration. This case is reported to highlight an unusual ...

Whilst there are some who appear to advise the removal of all myo-fibromatous tumours of the uterus, others incline to non-operative treatment throughout. More lives will, however, be saved by a judicious selection of cases for the respective forms of treatment. The mere presence of a tumour is not a sufficient excuse for operation, and it is clearly the duty of every surgeon, before he advocat...

A novel type D retrovirus was isolated by cocultivation of explants of fibromatous tissue from a rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) with immunodeficiency and retroperitoneal fibromatosis. This type D virus, isolated from a macaque with simian acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (SAIDS-D/Washington), is exogenous and is partially related to the Mason-Pfizer and the langur monkey type D viruses. The S...

Ann Saudi Med 28(3) May-June 2008 www.saudiannals.net 217 Fibrovascular polyps are extremely rare benign neoplasms of the hypopharynx that can arise from any site in the pharynx.1,2 Because of the mixture of stromal tissues, it is hypothesized that the fibrovascular polyp may be a hamartoma or an unusual type of inflammatory polyp. Another theory is that they arise secondary to mucosal injury,3...

We report a case of florid polypoid endometriosis presenting with advanced bulky disease in pelvis with serum CA-125 levels of 7844U/ml. The extent of tumor, CT scan findings, elevated serum CA-125 levels were suggestive of ovarian malignancy. Histopathology demonstrated endometrial glands and stroma. Glands were neither crowded nor complex and were separated by a fibromatous stroma that contai...