Female Wolffian adnexal tumor (WAT) is a rare neoplasm arising from the remnants of the mesonephric duct and <100 cases have been reported globally. The present case report describes a 73-year-old female patient with WAT in the left ovary which, to the best of our knowledge, is the largest benign WAT tumor to be reported. In addition, the present case report reviewed previous studies on the cli...

Female adnexal tumor of probable Wolffian origin (FATWO) is a rare neoplasm arising from the remnants of the mesonephric duct. We report here a case of FATWO in a 70-year-old woman arising from the broad ligament and confirmed on immunohistochemistry. Most of these tumors behave in a benign fashion but certain histological features like hypercellularity, cellular pleomorphism and nuclear atypia...

lead poisoning has several clinical manifestations so the diagnosis may be troublesome. these manifestations consist of anemia, neurologic abnormalities, liver and biliary tract problems and abdominal pain. not only opium addiction, but also lead toxicity can cause biliary tract problems.when both etiologies occur at the same time, the diagnosis is difficult. a 46 year old opium addicted man wi...

introduction: given the importance of identifying common bile duct diameter in diseases diagnoses and being different in different races, this paper aimed to investigate the relationship between the diameter of the common bile duct and demographic factors and drug addiction in patients who referred to the imaging department of imam reza hospital in birjand during the year 1391-1392. methods: th...

Development of urogenital anatomy in the human fetus is the result of a complex interplay between multiple different tissues. The time course of development is well documented and the morphologic outcomes of insults at various time points during development are predictable. We present a cadaveric case of unilateral agenesis of the left kidney, ureter, bladder hemitrigone, ureteric opening, semi...

Mesonephric carcinomas of the female genital tract are rare tumors, mainly occurring in the cervix and exceptionally in the uterine corpus. There seems to be a paradigm that the only mesonephric neoplasms arising from the upper zone of the Wolffian system are FATWOs. Indeed, no cases of mesonephric carcinoma of the ovary have been reported in the recent literature. Herein, we describe two cases...

Anatomic variations in forensic extrahepatic bile ducts is common. Knowledge of extrahepatic bile duct variations is important for surgeons in order to prevent iatrogenic damage during surgery. This study aims to determine the variations in extrahepatic bile ducts among 150 cadavers located at the Kerman Medicine Organization. We performed autopsies on 150 cadavers. Bile ducts were exposed an...

Molecular mechanisms that are responsible for the development of the renal collecting duct system during embryogenesis are still poorly understood. A mouse cDNA encoding a zinc finger protein, called Klf6, which is a member of the Krüppel-like family of transcription factors, has been cloned. Northern blot analyses showed that Klf6 was already expressed in 11.5-d postconception mouse embryos an...

GATA3 is a transcription factor critical for embryogenesis, development, and cell differentiation. Recent studies have suggested that GATA3 is a sensitive and relatively specific biomarker for urothelial and breast carcinomas, with most Müllerian carcinomas being negative. We investigated GATA3 expression in mesonephric/Wolffian remnants and tumors in the female genital tract. A western blot wa...