OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of subjective sonographic assessment in distinguishing between benign and malignant adnexal masses. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study. METHODS The patients scheduled for elective surgery due to adnexal masses were recruited into the study. All patients were sonographically examined within 72 hours of surgery were subjectively evaluated by the...

Adnexal masses represent a spectrum of conditions from gynecologic and nongynecologic sources. They may be benign or malignant. The initial detection and evaluation of an adnexal mass requires a high index of suspicion, a thorough history and physical examination, and careful attention to subtle historical clues. Timely, appropriate laboratory and radiographic studies are required. The most com...

Ectopic pregnancy is a major cause of first-trimester death in pregnancy, and standard clinical assessments continue to rely on hormonal assays and pelvic sonography. Although the adnexal or tubal ring sign is a diagnostic feature of ectopic pregnancy on pelvic sonography, it has not been well recognized on computed tomography (CT) due to radiation concerns. However, CT is increasingly being us...

BACKGROUND Primary mucinous carcinoma is a rare primary adnexal neoplasm of the skin with a high recurrence rate. OBJECTIVE To improve the recognition of this clinical entity and aid in establishing the origin of this tumor. METHODS Two cases of this tumor were reported and investigated histopathologically and histochemically. Furthermore, some mucinous carcinomas arising from the breast or...

PURPOSE To assess clinical factors, histopathologic diagnoses, operative time and differences in complication rates between women undergoing laparoscopy or laparotomy to diagnose and treat an adnexal mass and their association with laparoscopy failure. METHODS In this prospective study, 210 women were invited to participate and 133 of them were included. Eighty-eight women underwent laparotom...

Proliferating trichilemmal tumor (PTT), still referred to as proliferative trichilemmal cyst (TC), is an uncommon malignant adnexal tumor originating from the cells of the outer root sheath of the hair follicle or, more often, from a trichilemmal cyst, following multiple trauma and/or recurrent inflammation. We report the case of a 64-year old female patient, with no particular previous history...

It is rare to find tumor of the ceruminous gland, which a modified apocrine gland located within skin external auditory canal (EAC). Syringocystadenoma papilliferum (SCAP) benign adnexal that occurs in head and facial area forms infiltrative macules, papules, or keratinous nodules, but rarely EAC. To date, fewer than 150 case reports SCAP have been reported, with EAC being extremely rare. We re...

the histopathologic diagnosis of orbital and ocular adnexal lymphoproliferative lesions is difficult, resulting controversy in classification, determining benignity or malignancy of them and treatment modality selection. we designed the following study to evaluate clinical, histopathologic and if necessary immunochemical features of them in decreasing indeterminate cases. the study includes 51 ...