Uterine tumor resembling ovarian sex cord tumors treated by resectoscopic surgery.

Uterine tumors resembling ovarian sex cord tumors (UTROSCTs) are rare neoplasms of uncertain malignancy, affecting either pre or menopausal women. Only 48 cases of UTROSCTs have been reported and in most patients the diagnosis was made incidentally, after a hysterectomy as a result of the assumption of a leiomyoma. Although no death from progressive disease was reported, locoregional spread or abdominal relapse was detected in some patients.

Hysteroscopically targeted biopsies compared with blind samplings in endometrial assessment of menopausal women taking tamoxifen for breast cancer.

Study Objective: To determine the validity of tissue sampling accomplished by hysteroscopically targeted or blind biopsies in the assessment of endometrial morbidity associated with tamoxifen treatment.

Design: Retrospective, unrandomized study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).

Setting: Public hospital.