The potential complications associated with an adnexal mass discovered during early pregnancy call for surgical treatment. Ideally, surgery is performed after gestational week 12, but uterine expansion after the first trimester makes surgery difficult. We report two pregnancies complicated by adnexal masses for which we used an organ fixation device for safe performance of single-site umbilical...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To estimate the feasibility, safety, and operative outcomes for the management of adnexal masses by single port access (SPA) laparoscopy with a wound retractor and a surgical glove. DESIGN A prospective single-center study (Canadian Task Force classification III). SETTING University hospital. PATIENTS Twenty-four well selected patients with adnexal masses on imaging scans ...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are rare tumor of the gastrointestinal tract. GISTs occur in the entire gastrointestinal tract and may also arise from the retroperitoneum, omentum and mesenteries. They are originated from gastrointestinal pacemaker cells (Cajal's interstitial cells) and range from benign tumors to sarcomas at all sites of occurrence. Diagnosis of GIST could be deceptive...

Chondroid syringoma is a rare benign adnexal tumor of skin accounting for only about 1% commonly encountered tumors. It contains both epithelial and mesenchymal stromal component, hence refered as mixed skin.Its cytological features have rarely been published in the literature. A mucoid aspirate, abundant chondromyxoid matrix material, components were suggested diagnostic criteria. We report he...

Background: Clinicians are commonly tasked to evaluate adnexal masses. Both radiography and serum markers are useful in the counseling of patients regarding management options. Inhibin is one of several tumor markers used in the evaluation of adnexal masses given its known association with sex cord stromal tumors, specifically granulosa cell tumors. Case 1: 68 year old G6P6 Caucasian female who...

Syringoma is a benign adnexal tumor that originates from the acrosyringium. Eruptive syringoma rare variant manifests in form of skin-colored or brownish, shiny, angulated papules occur successive crops. Dermoscopic evaluation reveals brownish regular pigment network and tiny whitish dots between adjacent correspond histologically to multiple eccrine ducts lined by double-layered epithelium, gi...

Adnexal carcinomas of the skin are rare and they derive from structures such as sweat glands, sebaceous glands, and hair follicles. Adnexal tumors represent 1-2% of skin cancers. Between 1998 and 2004, eight patients with malignant adnexal tumors of the head and neck were treated in the Plastic Surgery Service in Argerich Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Four (50%) of them had malignant cyl...

PURPOSE The incidence and clinical correlation of MALT1 translocation and chromosomal numerical aberrations in Korean patients with ocular adnexal mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma have not yet been reported. We investigated the incidence and clinicopathologic relationship of these chromosomal aberrations in ocular adnexal MALT lymphomas in a Korean population. METHODS Thirty ...

This article reports the clinical course and treatment of ocular adnexal lymphoma based on a retrospective review of five cases with a histologically approved ocular adnexal lymphoma at Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital over 10 years. Extranodal B-cell lymphoma in the orbit, lacrimal gland, eyelid, or conjunctiva was found in these patients. Four of them were female, and they were aged 45-64 ...