An 84-year-oldwomanwas admittedwith melena. She had had an enlarging pancreatic mass 2 years earlier requiring endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with sphincterotomy and biliary metal stent placement. Her current presentation included melena for 1 week. She did not have any pain, nausea, vomiting, abdominal fullness or weight loss. Vital signs were within normal limits. On ph...

OBJECTIVE To identify the different histopathological types of ovarian neoplasms and their age distribution. METHODS This is a retrospective study were ovarian neoplasms received by the Pathology Department of King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia between January 1995 and December 2010 were reviewed and their frequencies in different age groups were calculated. RESULTS Out of 618...

background: improvements in imaging techniques has led to an increase in the number of diagnosed pancreatic cysts. although most of the detected cases are benign, a significant percentage of them are malignant or are potentially malignant. currently, endosonography, and analysis of cyst morphology, fine needle aspiration (fna) of the cyst contents, and measurement of the amylase and carcinoembr...

Background & Objective: The common epithelial ovarian tumors are classified into serous, mucinous, clear cell, endometrioid, the Brenner, mixed, and undifferentiated types. Cytoskeleton intermediate filament composition of ovarian tissues indicates that the cytokeratin and vimentin are observed in ovarian surface epithelium along with the common ovaria...

a general consensus of opinion, Orthmann (1899) is given the credit for having described the first case of this neoplasm (Gaines, 1936; Novak and Jones, 1939; Geist, 1942). The present status of the Brenner tumour, however we owe to Meyer (1932) who described in detail its pathological characteristics, segregated it from the general mass of granulosa cell tumours and proposed for it a mode of h...

Laparoscopic-assisted ovarian cystectomy with exteriorization is a minimally invasive procedure. However, applicability of this procedure for transumbilical laparoendoscopic single-site (LESS) surgery is not well established. Herein, we describe our initial experience with isobaric (gasless) LESS-assisted extracorporeal cystectomy in management of selected adnexal tumors. Of 17 consecutive adne...

Because of improvements in the fi eld of radiology as well as increased awareness, cystic neoplasms are increasingly Differentiating Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma from Pancreatic Serous Cystadenoma, Mucinous Cystadenoma, and a Pseudocyst with Detailed Analysis of Cystic Features on CT Scans: a Preliminary Study Peijie Lv, MM, Radfan Mahyoub, MD, Xiaozhu Lin, MD, Kemin Chen, MD, Weimin Chai, ...

To investigate the associations among the number of polyploid giant cancer cells (PGCCs) and vasculogenic mimicry (VM), EZH2 expression, and serous ovarian tumor grade, a total of 80 paraffin-embedded serous ovarian tumor samples including 21 cases of primary carcinoma and their metastatic tumors, 26 cases of primary carcinoma without metastasis, and 12 cases of serous borderline cystadenoma we...

absract a case of 69- year-old woman with large pelvic mass and ascites is reported in this paper. with the exception of mild pelvic pain and a pelvic mass in pelvic , she had no symptom or sign . all routine and hormonal lab tests and tumor marker's were normal. the mri revealed a large mass in anterosuperior of uterus, and left ovary was situated in neighborhood of pelvic mass.her uterus norm...