Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is an uncommon malignant soft tissue tumour rarely found in the female genital tract and carries a very poor prognosis especially in adults. A 44 year old premenopausal woman was evaluated for a lower abdominal mass, intermittent unprovoked vaginal bleeding and weight loss. Examination showed a huge abdomino-pelvic mass, and an irregular cauliflower mass protruding fro...

BACKGROUND We presented abdominal liposarcoma cases diagnosed and managed in a tertiary care center and also conducted a literature review on main features of this tumor. METHODS Chart reviews of eight cases were conducted, and clinical, surgical, histopathological, and follow-up data were recorded. RESULTS Overall, complete surgical resection was performed with adjacent organ resection in ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of surgical resection and radiotherapy (RT) in retroperitoneal or abdominal sarcoma. DESIGN Retrospective cohort. SETTING Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results, 1988-2005. PATIENTS Patients 18 years or older with initial diagnosis of primary retroperitoneal and nonvisceral abdominal sarcoma. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Survival for 2 years after diagnosi...

Background:Spontaneous bladder rupture is a rare condition, and almost all the reported cases in the world have been preceded by bladder dysfunction, radiotherapy, urinary tract obstruction, pelvic surgery, inflammation, and malignancy. Case report: In this study, we present the case of a 39-year-old woman (G: 4, P: 1, Ab: 2) who was in week 38 of pregnancy and attended our hospital with the on...

In recent years there have been sustained improvements in the outcomes from pelvic malignancy, with the introduction of new radiotherapy or combined chemotherapy– radiation treatment schedules [1,2]. Approximately four out of 10 people with cancer will have radiotherapy as part of their treatment. In the UK this includes about 12 000 patients annually who are treated with radiotherapy for pelvi...

This clinical trial studies local invasions from primary colonic and rectal cancers (urinary bladder, abdominal wall, small bowls, uterus, vagina, stomach, bile tract, spleen, duodenum, pancreas, ureters, kidneys), with or without undiscovered metastasis. Primary locally aggressive colonic and rectal cancers include tumors that are staged T4N1-2Mx on diagnosis, and are often associated with a l...

most bladder tumors are epithelial in origin. nonepithelial cancers are rarely located in the bladder. sarcomas are the most common malignancies among nonepithelial cancers. primary bladder lymphoma is rare and mostly low grade. here, we have reported a case of diffuse large cell lymphoma of the bladder. the patient, a 64-year-old man, had urinary frequency for 18 months. abdominal sonography i...

INTRODUCTION We report a rare case of delayed abdominal wall abscess after abdominoperineal resection (APR) for rectal cancer. CASE DESCRIPTION A 63-year-old woman was diagnosed with rectal cancer and received chemo-radiotherapy, followed by APR. One year after surgery, the patient complained of pain and skin redness in the lower abdomen. A low-density mass lesion with 5.9-cm diameter was fou...