Residual Disease after Operative Hysteroscopy in Patients with Endometrioid Endometrial Cancer Associated with Polyps.

Objective:  To evaluate the presence of residual disease in the uterine specimen after hysteroscopic polypectomy or polyp biopsy in patients with endometrioid endometrial cancer (EC).

Methods:  We analyzed a series of 104 patients (92 cases from the Hospital AC Camargo and 12 from the Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual de São Paulo) with polyps that were diagnosed by hysteroscopy, showing endometrioid EC associated with the polyp or in the final pathological specimen. Patients underwent a surgical approach for endometrial cancer from January 2002 to January 2017.

Myasthenia as a paraneoplastic manifestation of ovarian Cancer.

We describe the first case of myasthenia gravis as a possible paraneoplastic manifestation of ovarian cancer preceding its diagnosis.

Comparison of the Cervex-Brush® Combi and the Cytobrush+Ayres Spatula Combination for Cervical Sampling in Liquid-Based Cytology.

Objectives: To compare the performance of two cervical collection devices (Cytobrush+Ayres spatula and Cervex-Brush® Combi) for cellular sampling, transformation zone representation and accuracy in diagnosing cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) 2+.

Methods: Cervical samples were collected from patients referred to the colposcopy unit of the Barretos Cancer Hospital between September 2013 and October 2014 using one of the two sampling devices. Additionally, colposcopy was performed with or without cervical biopsy and/or endocervical curettage.

[Recurrent cervical cancer: symptoms at diagnosis are related to a worse prognosis?].

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical features and prognostic implications of patients with recurrent cervical cancer.

Methods: By reviewing the medical records we evaluated all patients with cervical cancer at stages IA to IVA who started treatment at a specialized hospital in the Southeast region of Brazil from 2007 to 2009. Recurrence episodes were categorized according to location of disease and information was collected regarding the type of treatment and survival of these patients.

Frequency of soil contamination by Toxocara canis eggs in the south region of São Paulo municipality (SP, Brazil) in a 18 month period.

Soil contamination by embryonic eggs of Toxocara canis is the main source of human infection by this ascarid larvae resulting, sometimes, in the occurrence of visceral larva migrans syndrome. The objective of the present research is to determine the frequency of T. canis eggs in soil samples monthly collected in nine public places, located at the South Region of São Paulo municipality in a 18-month period, from February 2004 to July 2005.