Cervical cancer in pregnant women: laparoscopic evaluation before delaying treatment.

Background: Cervical carcinoma diagnosed during pregnancy generates conflicting concerns between control of malignancy and continuation of pregnancy.

Case: An invasive cervical carcinoma FIGO Stage IB2 was diagnosed in a 33-year-old primigravida during the first trimester of pregnancy. Because the patient strongly desired to preserve her pregnancy, laparoscopic lymphadenectomy was performed at 16 weeks of gestation to determine the extension of disease.

Pregnancy after trachelectomy: a high-risk condition of preterm delivery. Report of a case and review of the literature.

Background: Trachelectomy is a conservative but locally radical procedure associated with a high risk of preterm delivery.

Case: A 28-year-old patient with cervical cancer FIGO stage IB1 was treated with laparoscopic pelvic lymphadenectomy followed by trachelectomy. Three years later, she conceived spontaneously.

A case of endometrioid carcinoma of the fallopian tube mimicking an adnexal tumor of probable Wolffian origin.

We report a very uncommon case of endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the fallopian tube that mimicked, based on histology, a female adnexal tumor of probable Wolffian origin (FATPWO). We present our microscopic and immunohistochemical findings, and a review of the literature concerning these two entities. The differential diagnosis can be of great consequence, owing to the very different prognoses of the two tumors, and is based mainly on macroscopic appearance and immunohistochemical profile: epithelial membrane antigen (EMA) and CA125, generally lacking in FATPWO, are expressed in endometrioid adenocarcinoma, thus indicating the müllerian origin of this tumor.