Adjuvant combined paclitaxel and carboplatin chemotherapy for glassy cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix: report of three cases with clinicopathological analysis.

Glassy cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix (GCC) is a rare form of cervical carcinoma that is characterized by aggressiveness and poor prognosis. We reviewed a variety of clinicopathological features, treatment strategies, and outcomes in three women with GCC. The three patients were successfully treated by radical hysterectomy with pelvic/para-aortic lymphadenectomy.

A case of uterine cervical adenocarcinoma associated with small cell carcinoma.

Extrapulmonary small cell carcinomas are often associated with carcinomas of other cell types. Although a hypothesis that extrapulmonary small cell carcinomas arise from a multipotential stem cell could explain this mixed feature, recent molecular evidence supports another possibility that the small cell component may arise as a late-stage phenomenon in the progression of more organ-typical carcinomas. Here, we report a case of uterine cervical adenocarcinoma containing 30% of small cell carcinoma.

Case of Budd-Chiari syndrome 3 months after vaginal delivery.

Budd-Chiari syndrome is a rather unusual clinical situation caused by occlusion of the hepatic vein of inferior vena cava, the classical triad of which are abdominal pain, ascites and hepatomegaly. A 29-year-old gravida 3 para 1 woman delivered an immature male baby weighing 2172 g with an Apgar score of 9 points at 35 weeks and 3 days of gestation. She was transferred to the National Hospital Organization Osaka National Hospital 112 days after delivery due to the sudden development of massive ascites.