Neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy in patients with high-risk locally advanced cervical cancer-results of a clinical series.

Purpose: Neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy (NARCT) is an established standard of care in various tumor entities, promoting high response rates at commonly lower toxicities as compared to adjuvant approaches. This retrospective analysis was designed to investigate NARCT in early-stage high-risk cervical cancer.

Methods: Forty patients with early-stage high-risk cervical cancer (i.

Recurrence and rapid metastasis formation of a granular cell tumor of the vulva.

Histologically confirmed local recurrence of the rare entity of a granular cell tumor of the vulva was diagnosed in a 55-year-old patient with no signs of distant metastasis. Intraoperatively (local excision of mons pubis and inguinal lymphnodes), widespread regional metastasis with retroperitoneal lymphnode metastases were found. Postoperative restaging detected pulmonary, hepatic and skeletal metastases and the patient died of her disseminated disease within 4 months.

Placenta percreta in week 10 of pregnancy with consecutive hysterectomy: case report.

Placenta percreta in early pregnancy is rare and has been documented in only a few cases. We report on a patient with abdominal pain in week 10 of pregnancy. Sonography revealed a defective embryonic development and the absence of a border line between trophoblast and myometrium, as well as invasive growth in the region of isthmocervical transition, so curettage was performed.

Simultaneous sertoli cell tumor and adenocarcinoma of the tunica vaginalis testis in a patient with testicular feminization.

Background: The association of testicular feminization with late diagnosis in a patient with a large Sertoli cell tumor and a metastasizing adenocarcinoma of the tunica vaginalis testis is unusual.

Case: Testicular feminization was diagnosed in a 72-year-old patient, who was admitted with a large lower abdominal mass. Histologically, we found a well-differentiated Sertoli cell tumor and an adenocarcinoma of the tunica vaginalis testis with metastases in the sigmoid colon, rectum, and omentum.

Androblastoma of the ovary: clinical, diagnostic and histopathologic features.

Androblastomas of Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors of the ovaries are classified into the group of sex cord stromal tumors and represent an extremely rare form of tumor (0.2% of all ovarian tumors) in women. Their malignant potential is lower than that of epithelial ovarian cancer.