HER2 amplification and clinicopathological characteristics in a large Asian cohort of rare mucinous ovarian cancer.

Mucinous epithelial ovarian cancer has a poor prognosis in the advanced stages and responds poorly to conventional chemotherapy. We aim to elucidate the clinicopathological factors and incidence of HER2 expression of this cancer in a large Asian retrospective cohort from Singapore. Of a total of 133 cases, the median age at diagnosis was 48.

Uterine leiomyosarcoma in asian patients: validation of the revised Federation of gynecology and obstetrics staging system and identification of prognostic classifiers.

Background: In 2008, the Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) revised their 1988 staging system for uterine leiomyosarcomas. In this article, we compare performance of the 2008 and 1988 FIGO systems.

Methods: Individual case data were manually culled.

A report of 6 children with small bowel intussusception that required surgical intervention.

Background/purpose: We aim to justify the need for surgical intervention in our patients with childhood small bowel intussusceptions (SBIs) and review the current concepts in childhood SBI.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the clinical charts of all patients with surgically confirmed SBI between July 1999 and October 2002. Demographic data, clinical presentation and investigations, operative and pathologic findings, and outcome were analyzed.