background: diarrhea is a well-recognized side effect associated with pelvic radiation; however, there is not any effective common treatment for radiation-induced diarrhea. a popular alternative is probiotics, which have been used in several gastrointestinal disorders. probiotics are live microbial food supplements. furthermore, honey is a putative nutritional with a variety of health effects, ...

background: radiation-induced discomfort is frequently observed during pelvic radiotherapy. this study was performed to determine the effect of a green tea tablet to reduce the incidence of radiation-induced diarrhea and vomiting in patients with abdomen and pelvic malignancy. materials and methods: this randomized controlled clinical trial recruited 42 patients with abdomen and pelvic malignan...

Background Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women and is regarded as one of the leading causes of cancer death in developing countries. In cervical cancer patients, both surgery and radiation therapy may bring about sexual dysfunction. Therefore, this study aimed to survey sexual dysfunction in women with cervical cancer and a history study of pelvic radiation therapy in Ghae...

tuberculosis (tb) is the most common infectious cause of human death. after the lung, genitourinary tract is the most common site for tb infection. pelvic tuberculosis should be considered in young women presented with pelvic mass, ascites, fever, an elevated ca125 level, negative cytology, and positive history of contact with affected person. a 24- year- old girl presented as stage iv ovarian ...

we present a 55-year old male patient who was subjected to whole body skeletal scintigraphy for metastatic work up of urinary bladder cancer. whole body 99mtc-methylene diphosphonate (mdp) skeletal scintigraphy was performed. that revealed no skeletal metastasis in the entire body skeleton and normally visualized left kidney with empty right renal fossa. additionally tracer activity collected i...

Pelvic exenteration is a radical surgery which includes the en bloc resection of the pelvic organs and followed by surgical reconstruction (Hockel et al., 2006; Diver et al., 2012). The en bloc resection includes internal reproductive organs, rectosigmoid colon, urinary bladder and distal ureters. Pelvic exenteration is classified into 3 types; anterior pelvic exenteration, posterior pelvic exe...

abstracthydatid disease is a widespread parasitic infection caused by tapewormechinococcus and it affects mainly the liver, but other organs such as pelvic organscould be involved very rare. here we report a case of hydatid cyst with involvementof oviduct in a woman with endometrial cancer. it was misdiagnosed as a multicysticright ovarian mass before surgery and by microscopic study it was sho...

background: tubo-ovarian abscess as a serious complication of pelvic inflammatory disease is very uncommon in sexually inactive girls. case: we report a case of tubo-ovarian abscess in a 24-year-old sexually inactive girl with transverse vaginal septum who was presented with abdominal pain and a pelvic mass and without prior surgical history and no evidences of appendicitis, inflammatory bowel ...

background: ovarian cancer is the most common cause of cancer death worldwide. incidence of ovarian cancer is more common in postmenopausal women. premenopausal onset is rare and the present study described two cases of ovarian clear cell tumors in young women. case presentation: the patients presented with pelvic mass which was confirmed by sonography and laparotomy and final diagnosis was mad...

Radical cystectomy is the gold standard treatment for aggressive bladder cancer. Pelvic lymphadenectomy an important step. This procedure crucial cancer staging, determination of further strategy, and optimization surgical outcomes. Currently, sentinel lymph node concept being actively developed, which allows to reduce required extent pelvic dissection. Decrease in number removed improves safet...