Publications by authors named "Elizabeth G Morency"

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  • Chronic intestinal inflammation in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is linked to changes in the prostate that could promote tumor formation, evidenced by greater lymphocyte infiltration in prostate tumors of men with IBD compared to non-IBD patients.
  • In mouse models, chronic colitis led to increased leukocyte infiltration and activation of pro-inflammatory signaling pathways like AKT and NF-kB in the prostate, indicating a pro-tumor environment.
  • The study highlights that ongoing gut inflammation may contribute to prostate cancer development in IBD patients by creating an inflammatory environment that can damage DNA and disrupt normal cell cycles in prostate cells.
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Glomus tumor of the scrotal skin is an extremely rare diagnosis in adult men with only five previous cases reported in the literature. We report the case of a 19-year-old man who was diagnosed with a glomus tumor following the surgical removal of a painful scrotal lesion, and further discuss the diagnosis and treatment of scrotal glomus tumors.

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Context.—: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) established a new system for accreditation of residency and fellowship programs in 2013. One key aspect of the Next Accreditation System is the 10-year self-study, which requires programs to conduct a comprehensive self-evaluation, including development of program aims and analysis of strengths, weaknesses, and environmental context, in order to plan improvements and take the program to the next level.

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Gastric-type cervical adenocarcinoma (GCA) is a human papillomavirus-unassociated, aggressive, chemorefractory tumor. Well-differentiated examples may exhibit bland morphologic appearances, which could potentially lead to misdiagnosis, particularly in limited material. We sought to characterize the morphologic features of GCA in surgical biopsy and cytology specimens.

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Context.—: The incidence of anal cancer in the United States is on the rise in high-risk populations. The anal Papanicolaou test (APT) is advocated as a screening tool, in addition to digital rectal examination and high-resolution anoscopy.

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A thorough literature search revealed no previous reports of this entity, and we are the first to describe a case of a high-grade sarcoma arising from a recurrent immature teratoma misdiagnosed as growing teratoma syndrome. The patient was a 23-yr-old female, diagnosed at the age of 20 with a Stage IIIB immature ovarian teratoma. After surgery and chemotherapy, the patient developed multiple liver and pelvic masses that were diagnosed as mature teratomas based on small samples obtained by computed tomography-guided core biopsy.

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