Pain in relation to the menstrual cycle is representative of Endometriosis. It has been reported that Endometriosis can be easily confounded with neoplasia. In clinical practice Gynecologic Oncology we find relative frequency patients who are unknown carriers endometriosis present and operated on because they resemble a picture gynecological cancer, predominantly ovary. Endometriomas form part ...

Although it is difficult in Western medicine to eliminate edema occurring in the lower extremities after intrapelvic lymph node dissection for malignant gynecologic tumors, we successfully treated or prevented this postoperative complication with moxibustion and acupuncture, initiated after the occurrence of lymphedema in 12 patients and as soon as possible after surgery in 12 others. An increa...

Bladder schwannomas are exceedingly rare, benign or malignant, nerve sheath tumors that are most often discovered in patients with a known diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). A few sporadic case reports of bladder schwannoma have been published in urologic, obstetric/gynecologic, and pathologic journals. We report a case of an isolated schwannoma of the urinary bladder. To our knowledg...

Background: Immunohistochemistry is an adjunct tool in Surgical Pathology. The fast growing use of immunohistochemistry gynecologic Pathology has revolutionized the fields tumor diagnostics & research. Objective: objective study was to share discuss experience utility Gynecologic Pathology, at a tertiary care hospital Lahore, Pakistan. Patients Methods: This retrospective, descriptive, cros...

Introduction/Background Gynecologic neuroendocrine carcinomas are rare, aggressive malignancies. The most common site is the cervix followed by endometrium, ovary, vagina and vulva. Histological subtype of origin major prognostic factors. We sought to characterize cytomorphological features these malignancies compare them with histologic features. Methodology Institutional dat...

Drug resistance is the fundamental reason for tumor recurrence and treatment failure in gynecologic malignant tumors. Drug resistance prevention requires familiarity with physicochemical properties of chemotherapeutic drugs, characteristics of vivo metabolism, correctly chosen chemotherapeutic schemes including multi-drug combination chemotherapy, experimental for doubtful diagnosis and timely ...

• Ovarian carcinomas represent 6th most common cancer, the second gynecologic cancer and 4th leading cause of death in women. With no viable screening estimates accessible, 70% ovarian malignancies are diagnosed at a late stage. Separation benign lesions from malignant ones is foremost significance to direct correct clinical management. Imaging modalities, particularly ultrasonography (US), com...

OBJECTIVE Lynch syndrome is a hereditary cancer syndrome that increases the risks of colorectal and gynecologic malignancies such as endometrial and ovarian cancer. Studies have shown that mutations in mismatch repair genes (MSH2, MSH6, and MLH1) are associated with Lynch syndrome. The aim of our study was to estimate the value of MSH2, MSH6, and MLH1 immunohistochemistry based on family histor...