Giant Ovarian Thecoma Associated with Meigs Syndrome: A Striking Case.

Meigs syndrome consists of the presence of a benign ovarian tumor, ascites and pleural effusion, and the latter two subdued after surgical excision of the ovarian tumor. Elevated Ca-125 in this context is confusing and is reported only in a handful of cases. A rare but striking case with the above features is presented herein.

Retroperitoneal Solitary Fibrous Tumor: A "Patternless" Tumor.

Introduction: Solitary fibrous tumor is a rare type of mesenchymal, spindle-cell tumor reported mostly in the pleura. Retroperitoneal occurrence is rare and histopathological diagnosis is challenging.

Case Presentation: A 55-year-old woman with nonspecific abdominal pain was found to have a retroperitoneal/pelvic mass adjacent to the upper rectum.

Skin metastases of vulvar squamous cell carcinoma. Presentation of a rare case.

Skin metastases secondary to vulvar carcinoma is an infrequent clinical entity. The authors describe a case of squamous vulvar carcinoma, which presented with cutaneous involvement as a part of distant spread. After a radical vulvectomy, bilateral inguino-femoral lymphadenectomy, and adjuvant radiotherapy, the patient developed multiple cutaneous metastases in lower extremities.

Collision tumor of the appendix: mucinous cystadenoma and carcinoid. A case report.

Introduction: Mucinous cystadenoma is the most common of benign neoplasms of the appendix and carcinoid is the most common type of primary malignant lesions of the appendix.We report a rare case of a 57-year-old female with combined mucinous cystadenoma and carcinoid tumor of the appendix.Dual carcinoid and epithelial neoplasia is a rare occurrence in the appendix.

Leiomyoma of the greater saphenous vein mimicking inguinal lymphadenopathy.

Introduction. Leiomyoma is a benign vascular tumor affecting the greater saphenous vein rarely. Proper histopathological examination sets the diagnosis after complete and wide surgical excision along with a normal portion of the GSV.

Obstructive jaundice due to ampullary metastasis of renal cell carcinoma.

Renal cell carcinoma is often characterized by the presence of metachronous metastases in unusual sites. The presence of isolated metastases is treated with surgical excision with good anticipated results. On the other hand, systemic chemotherapy is administered in the context of metastatic spread, usually sunitib or sorafenib.

The influence of diabetes on degree of abdominal aortic aneurysm tissue inflammation.

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) progression and disease resistance are related to transmural degenerative processes and an inflammatory infiltration (INF). Diabetes is associated with low prevalence and growth rate of AAA. We sought to characterize INF in established AAA (INFAAA), in diabetic patients.

Myoepithelial carcinoma of the vulva mimicking bartholin gland abscess in a pregnant woman: case report and review of literature.

Myoepithelial tumors of the vulva are extremely rare, with only 8 cases reported in the literature to date. We report the first case of a high-grade myoepithelial vulvar carcinoma diagnosed in a 35-year-old woman during the 27th week of her pregnancy. The patient initially underwent a wide local excision of the lesion but noted rapid regrowth of the vulvar mass during the next 2 months before her delivery.

Granulosa cell tumors of the ovary: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 21 cases.

Purpose: To further study the clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical features of ovarian granulosa cell tumors (GCTs).

Methods: We retrospectively studied all cases of GCTs diagnosed in our laboratory over the last 10-year period. Immunohistochemistry for inhibin, vimentin, cytokeratin, Ki-67 and p53 was performed on archival paraffin blocks.

Subhepatic retroperitoneal endometrioma: report of a case.

A 38-year-old woman with a history of pelvic endometriosis was referred to our surgical department for the treatment of a cystic lesion most probably originating from the liver. At the laparotomy a solitary cyst was found in the retroperitoneum, connected to the inferior surface of the liver, and was resected. Histopathological examination of the resected specimen revealed that it was an endometriotic cyst.

Foregut duplication cysts of the stomach with respiratory epithelium.

Gastrointestinal duplication is a congenital rare disease entity. Gastric duplication cysts seem to appear even more rarely. Herein, two duplications cysts of the stomach in a 46 year-old female patient are presented.

Vascular adrenal cysts: a brief review of the literature.

Adrenal cysts are rare and form a heterogeneous group of lesions that includes (a) parasitic cysts, (b) epithelial cysts, (c) pseudocysts, and (d) endothelial cysts. There is evidence (immunohistochemical and ultrastructural) that both pseudocysts and endothelial cysts are variants of vascular cysts. Adrenal vascular cysts account for 84% of adrenal cysts.

Aggressive treatment of metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the rectum to the liver: a case report and a brief review of the literature.

Background: Rectal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a rare tumor. The incidence of this malignancy has been reported to be 0.25 to 1 per 1000 colorectal carcinomas.

Third-line hormonal treatment with exemestane in postmenopausal patients with advanced breast cancer progressing on letrozole or anastrozole. A phase II trial conducted by the Hellenic Group of Oncology (HELGO).

Aims And Background: The understanding of hormonal therapies in postmenopausal women with metastatic breast cancer has advanced greatly in the past several decades. With the introduction of orally active, potent and selective third-generation aromatase inhibitors (anastrozole, letrozole and exemestane), approaches to the treatment of hormone-sensitive advanced breast cancer are undergoing reevaluation. For treatment of advanced or metastatic disease that has progressed on tamoxifen, all three agents are active.

Undifferentiated carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells of the pancreas.

Pure undifferentiated carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells of the pancreas is very rare. Its prognosis is grim. The clinicopathologic findings of a case of this unusual tumor are presented.

Parathyroid cysts of the neck and mediastinum. Case report.

Five cases of parathyroid cyst are presented and the literature concerning this rare entity is reviewed. Three of the five cysts were located in the neck and were non-functioning. The other two were in the anterior mediastinum and functioning, and indeed were associated with hypercalcemic crisis.

Extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma in a pregnant woman: a case report.

Extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma is an unusual form of soft-tissue sarcoma. We report a case of a pregnant woman with a rapidly growing tumour of the left thigh, who went into complete remission with combination chemotherapy. Aggressive therapy is justified in this kind of tumour even in cases with advanced disease.

Computed tomography in the evaluation of spinal aneurysmal bone cyst.

Computed tomographic findings in three cases of aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) are reported. Although conventional radiography is usually adequate in the demonstration of an expansile osteolytic cavity, CT may provide additional information about tumour characteristics, localization and extent, show the lesion's relation to the spinal cord and thus be of great help in preoperative planning.

Congenital fibrosarcoma metastatic to the choroid.

A 2 1/2-year-old boy developed a choroidal metastasis from a congenital fibrosarcoma of the lower left limb that had been amputated shortly after birth. To our knowledge this is the first reported case of a congenital fibrosarcoma that metastasized to the choroid.

Vasculature of the optic nerve in anencephaly.

The optic nerves and globes obtained from 6 anencephalics were studied histologically and compared to normal specimens obtained from 4 stillborn infants as well as 1 case of septo-optic dysplasia. Special emphasis was placed on examination of the optic nerve, and it was found that an average of 48 vessels per high-power field were seen posterior to the lamina cribrosa in anencephalics. In contrast, control globes had an average of 12 vessels per high-power field.

The visual results after vitreous loss during cataract extraction.

We followed the progress of 50 eyes in which cataract extraction was complicated by vitreous loss for 6 to 48 months and matched them with 50 eyes that had not lost vitreous. The results show that the number of eyes attaining 6/6 (20/20) or 6/7.5 (20/25) vision is significantly higher in the controls.

Angiomyxoma of umbilical cord.

A rare angiomyxoma of umbilica cord occurred in a male infant. The presence of such a tumor with its vascular component arising from a hypoplastic umbilical artery supports the hypothesis that the lesions arose through improper placental vascularization.