Small intestine cancers are uncommon diseases among gastrointestinal cancers. Among these small intestine cancers, adenocarcinoma is the most common type. Other types of cancers often found in the small intestine are carcinoid, lymphoma, sarcoma, and gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Adenosquamous carcinomas of the duodenum are extremely rare lesions among small intestine cancers, and only a few ...

Adenosquamous carcinoma is an aggressive variant of squamous cell carcinoma. This report describes a case of adenosquamous carcinoma with clinical features of a benign lesion and discusses the differential diagnoses, especially regarding histopathological and immunohistochemical analyses. A 45-year-old male was referred to our outpatient clinic complaining about a rapid-growing enlargement in h...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Cervical adenosquamous carcinoma is a special histological type of cervical carcinoma. Its clinic-pathologic characteristics and prognostic factors have seldom been reported. This study was to explore the clinic-pathologic characteristics and prognostic factors of cervical adenosquamous carcinoma. METHODS Clinical data of 83 pathologically confirmed adenosquamous cervic...

The most common pancreatic cancer is adenocarcinoma. Primary adenosquamous cell carcinoma of the pancreas is very rare and aggressive. A 46-year-old man presented with a 3-month history of dyspepsia and a 7-kg weight loss. The physical examination showed tenderness of the right upper quadrant of the abdomen. There was no jaundice. Amylase and lipase were elevated. CA 19-9 was elevated to 566.7 ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether human papillomavirus (HPV) genotype is associated with poor prognosis of uterine cervical cancer treated primarily with radiotherapy. METHODS HPV genotyping was performed in 181 radiotherapy patients using SPF10 polymerase chain reaction and HPV reverse hybridization line probe assay. Univariate and multivariate Cox regression analysis was performed to explore th...

We report a case of a patient with a previous coronary artery bypass graft who presented with chest pain and was found to have adenosquamous carcinoma encasing the left internal mammary graft to left anterior descending artery – the only viable vessel to his coronary circulation. Adenosquamous carcinoma, a rare lung cancer with a poor prognosis, causing obstruction of a bypass graft has not bee...

Primary gastric adenosquamous carcinomas malignancies. They are common in males and seen in sixth decade of life. These tumors are composed of both adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma in varied proportio have presented such a rare case in a 47 y abdominal pain and bleeding. Routine investigations were normal except for mild anemia. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed ulcerartive le...

Adenosquamous carcinoma of the colon consisting of both glandular and squamous histopathologic features is a rare colorectal neoplasm. Metastasis commonly occurs in right and transverse colon. A 71-year-old Caucasian man presented with a four-month history of intermittent rectal bleeding. Pathologic analysis of biopsy specimen revealed an adenosquamous carcinoma of sigmoid colon. Sigmoid resect...

BACKGROUND It is well recognized that adenocarcinomas and adenosquamous carcinomas of the cervix are frequently associated with human papillomavirus (HPV)-16 or -18. However, few studies have investigated associations between histologic variants of these tumors and specific types of HPV. METHODS Eleven cases of cervical adenosquamous carcinoma with an unusual histologic appearance were charac...

INTRODUCTION Most gastric tumors are adenocarcinomas. Primary gastric adenosquamous carcinoma is a rare malignancy, mostly associated with Asian populations. It constitutes less than one percent of all gastric carcinomas and its clinical presentation is the same as adenocarcinoma. It occurs more frequently in the proximal stomach, usually presents with muscular layer invasion and tends to be fo...