Development of a Multi-Institutional Prediction Model for Three-Year Survival Status in Patients with Uterine Leiomyosarcoma (AGOG11-022/QCGC1302 Study).

Background: The existing staging systems of uterine leiomyosarcoma (uLMS) cannot classify the patients into four non-overlapping prognostic groups. This study aimed to develop a prediction model to predict the three-year survival status of uLMS.

Methods: In total, 201 patients with uLMS who had been treated between June 1993 and January 2014, were analyzed.

Prognostic Factors of Early Stage Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma.

We aimed to determine prognostic factors of early stage (I/II) epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) including clinicopathologic and chemotherapeutic regimens. Four hundred and thirty-seven women who underwent primary staging surgery with adjuvant chemotherapy between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2010 were retrospectively reviewed and analyzed from two medical centers. The prognostic factors were determined from multivariate survival analyses using Cox regression models.

Malignant perivascular epithelioid cell tumor in the female genital tract: Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

Background: Perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa) is a rare mesenchymal tumor, located at various anatomic sites, including the female genital tract. This study aimed to evaluate the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with PEComa arising from the female genital tract.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in Taipei Veterans General Hospital (Taipei VGH) between 2008 and 2018.

Outcomes of Patients With Surgically and Pathologically Staged IIIA-IVB Pure Endometrioid-type Endometrial Cancer: A Taiwanese Gynecology Oncology Group (TGOG-2005) Retrospective Cohort Study (A STROBE-Compliant Article).

In the management of patients with advanced-stage pure endometrioid-type endometrial cancer (E-EC), such as positive lymph nodes (stage III) or stage IV, treatment options are severely limited. This article aims to investigate the outcome of women with FIGO III-IV E-EC (based on FIGO 2009 system). The retrospective cohort study, based on the Taiwanese Gynecologic Oncology Group (TGOG-2005), enrolled patients undergoing staging surgery to have a pathologically confirmed FIGO III-IV E-EC from 22-member hospitals between 1991 and 2010.

Outcome of ovarian preservation during surgical treatment for endometrial cancer: A Taiwanese Gynecologic Oncology Group study.

Objective: The goal of this study was to investigate the impact of ovarian preservation on the survival of women with early-stage endometrial cancer, particularly young women.

Materials And Methods: A study cohort of 64 patients with histologically confirmed early-stage endometrial cancer was retrospectively collected from 10 member hospitals of the Taiwanese Gynecologic Oncology Group between 1998 and 2009. Survivorship and overall survival were compared between these two groups using a log-rank test.

Clinicopathological features and survival in young Taiwanese women with endometrial carcinoma.

Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the clinicopathological features and survival of young women with endometrial cancer (aged <50 years) with those of older women with endometrial cancer (aged ≥50 years).

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients with histologically confirmed endometrial cancer treated at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital from 2001 to 2010.

Results: One hundred forty-six patients (28.

Impact of ovarian preservation in women with endometrial cancer.

Background: Bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) is standardly performed in the treatment of endometrial cancer. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of ovarian preservation on the outcome of patients with endometrial cancer.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed using the 2000-2010 database of endometrial cancer patients who were treated at Taipei Veterans General Hospital.

Impact of management on the prognosis of pure uterine papillary serous cancer - a Taiwanese Gynecologic Oncology Group (TGOG) study.

Objective: To investigate the clinical and pathological characteristics and the management of uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC) in relation to patients' outcomes.

Methods: Clinicopathological data and the management of patients treated between 1991 and 2010 at 11 member hospitals of the Taiwanese Gynecologic Oncology Group (TGOG) were retrospectively reviewed. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to generate survival curves, and factors predictive of outcome were compared using the log-rank test and Cox regression analysis.

Primary fallopian tube carcinoma: a clinicopathologic analysis and literature review.

Background: Primary fallopian tube carcinoma (PFTC) is a rare tumor, and it is very difficult to diagnose preoperatively. The aims of this study were to evaluate the clinicopathologic features of primary fallopian tube carcinoma (PFTC) and to review the current available literature on PFTC.

Methods: The medical records of 16 patients who were diagnosed with PFTC at Taipei Veterans General Hospital between January 2001 and December 2011 were analyzed retrospectively.

Prognosis for advanced-stage primary peritoneal serous papillary carcinoma and serous ovarian cancer in Taiwan.

Objective: To compare the prognosis of patients with advanced-stage primary peritoneal serous papillary carcinoma (PSPC) or papillary serous ovarian cancer (PSOC).

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective case-control study and included two study groups: one with stage III/IV PSPC (n = 38) patients and the other with PSOC (n = 53) patients. Patients were matched for histologic subtype (serous tumor), tumor stage, tumor grade, residual disease at the end of debulking surgery (primary or interval), and age (±5 years).

Comparing effectiveness of combined transobturator tension-free vaginal mesh (Perigee) and transobturator tension-free vaginal tape (TVT-O) versus anterior colporrhaphy and TVT-O for associated cystocele and urodynamic stress incontinence.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of transobturator tension-free vaginal mesh (Perigee) and concomitant transobturator tension-free vaginal tape (TVT-O) for treating cystocele with urodynamic stress incontinence (UDSI).

Study Design: A retrospective study of 115 patients with symptomatic stages 2-3 cystocele and UDSI who were treated with a Perigee system (Group I, n=68) plus TVT-O procedure or traditional anterior colporrhaphy (Group II, n=47) plus TVT-O procedure. All patients were followed up for more than one year.

Type-specific human papillomavirus DNA testing with the genotyping array: a comparison of cervical and vaginal sampling.

Objective: To compare the detection and typing of human papillomavirus (HPV) between vaginal and cervical specimens by using polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based reverse-blot genotyping arrays.

Study Design: Two hundred and fifty-two women were referred to colposcopy clinics because of suspicious or positive results in a community-based cervical cancer-screening program. Genital tract cells were sampled from the cervix and self-collected from the vagina and tested with the HPV Blot kit.

The relationship between human papillomavirus and Epstein-Barr virus infections in relation to age of patients with cervical adenocarcinoma.

Objective: To examine the relationship between human papillomavirus (HPV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections in relation to age of patients with cervical adenocarcinoma.

Materials And Methods: Thirty samples of human cervical adenocarcinoma tissue were collected from the surgical pathology archive at Taipei Veterans General Hospital from 1996 to 2008. All samples were examined for EBV, HPV-16 and HPV-18 E6 DNA by conventional and real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction assays.

Aggressive characteristics of cervical cancer in young women in Taiwan.

Objective: To compare the characteristics and prognosis of cervical cancer in young women (under 30 years) with those of older women (over 30 years).

Methods: A retrospective study of 2443 patients diagnosed with FIGO stage IA-IIA cervical cancer who underwent surgical procedures between January 1983 and December 2007.

Results: Thirty patients (1.

Isolated torsion of the fallopian tube in a 14-year-old adolescent.

Objective: Torsion of adnexa is relatively common, but isolated torsion of the fallopian tube is rare. It should be considered in all adolescents who present with acute pelvic pain. Laparoscopy or laparotomy is often necessary to establish the diagnosis.