Background: The ovarian neoplasms are the cause of highest mortality in female genital tract. Histomorphological study is the gold standard to assess the treatment modalities and prognosis of various tumors. Aim: This study is done to determine the age incidence, prevalence and morphological variants of ovarian neoplasms Materials and methods: This is retrospective and prospective study done fr...

Introduction: Ovarian tumors have various histomorphological patterns. Histopathological examination plays an important role is classifying ovarian tumors for better prognosis. Ovarian tumors are classified into surface epithelial tumors, germ tumors and sex cord stromal tumors. This study was done to know various histomorphological patterns of ovarian tumors. Materials and Methods: Both retros...

We describe the first case of cryptococcosis caused by Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii in a male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). The dolphin showed clinical signs of tachypnea, transient dyspnea, and mild tachycardia and developed multiple hyperechoic nodules, parenchymal consolidation, and thickening of pleura. A diagnosis of bronchopneumonia with pleuritis was made. Itra...

A 33-year-old woman was referred to our institution with complaint of an enlarging mass in the right cheek and jaw. She reported that the mass had been present since childhood, but did notice it increasing size over the past few months and requested removal. Physical exam revealed a firm, mobile mass fixed to the right parotid tail. Contrast enhanced CT of the neck demonstrated a 2.1 x 2.2 x 1....

Currently, AIDS represents the most common risk factor for the development of cryptococcosis. Despite of rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy programs and global investement in HIV care over the past decade, the decline in incidende and mortality rates associated with cryptococcosis has not been commensurate. This article puts into context recent diagnostics studies and morphologies with sp...

We describe 5 patients (mean age, 50 years; all had uterine bleeding) whose routine endometrial biopsy and curettage specimens contained prominent signet-ring cells. Each specimen contained loose aggregates of signet-ring cells scattered within the endometrial stroma that were characterized by peripherally displaced, small, uniform nuclei with indistinct nucleoli and showed no mitotic activity....

Gastrointestinal cryptococcosis is extremely rare with only a few case reports found in the literature and involvement primarily identified post-mortem. This is a case of 54-year-old man with a 20-year history of poorly controlled human immunodeficiency virus presented with constitutional symptoms along with melena. Diagnostic work up with esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed 4 irregular ulcers in...

BACKGROUND Cryptococcus is the third most common invasive fungal organism in immunocompromised patients, including transplant patients, and usually involves the central nervous system and lungs, with a median time to infection of 25 months. We report a case of Cryptococcus of the prostate gland, found as an incidental finding on prostate biopsy for prostate adenocarcinoma, four months following...

We established a new cell line (ACCNS) from human adenoid cystic carcinoma (AdCC) of the maxilla, using tissue culture techniques and it has been successfully subcultured for more than 100 passages during 2 years. The population doubling time was approximately 39.2 h on a plastic dish. In type I collagen gel culture, the cells formed spherical colonies by day 7 after seeding. The colonies showe...

Colorectal carcinoma is a major cause of cancer associated with a high rate of morbidity and mortality in the western world. One of the pathologic features considered to be important for prognostic is mucin production. Many authors confirmed that colon carcinomas with high mucin content tend to re-occur locally and carry a poor prognosis. For histochemical evaluation of mucin content, we invest...