OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinicopathological characteristics and survival analysis in endometrial adenocarcinoma women younger than the age of 40 years compare to older women. METHODS Medical records of 423 endometrial adenocarcinoma patients who received primary surgical treatment at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital during 1996-2005 were reviewed. The patients were divided into two grou...

The coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor (CAR) is a crucial receptor for the entry of both coxsackie B viruses and adenoviruses into host cells. CAR expression on tumor cells was reported to be associated with their sensitivity to adenoviral infection, while it was considered as a surrogate marker for monitoring and/or predicting the outcome of adenovirus-mediated gene therapy. The aim of the...

The current analyses aimed to assess the association between age and frequency with common findings of endometrial biopsies. retrospective study was conducted in Department Pathology, Basic Medical Sciences Institute, Karachi, from January 2014 2020 evaluate normal phases, hyperplasia, carcinoma local population. on a total 103 diagnosed cases. All participants underwent immunohistochemistry te...

UNLABELLED Parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTH-rp) is a peptide initially purified from tumors with hypercalcemia, which is also produced in human endometrium. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and tissue distribution of PTH-rp in normal, hyperplastic and malignant endometrium. MATERIALS AND METHODS Paraffin-fixed endometrial tissue was obtained randomly from women in ...

In order to improve our understanding of the potential preventive and therapeutic role of metformin, the present study aimed to investigate the capability of low-dose metformin in the efficient inhibition of cancer development and the reduction of the metastasis of endometrial adenocarcinoma type I and primary endometrial epithelial cells (eEPs), with the drug acting as a treatment in a hyperin...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the distribution of T-lymphocytes and their relationship with clinicopathologic factors in endometrial carcinoma. METHODS Samples were collected from 89 patients with endometrial endometrioid adenocarcinoma treated in Pusan National University Hospital from 2004 to 2011. Normal endometrial tissues were obtained from 30 hysterectomized women wit...

The role of cellular oncogenes in the development of epithelial tumors of the human female reproductive tract has not previously been extensively studied. DNAs isolated from ten human uterine, 13 ovarian, and four cervical neoplasms and from three cell lines derived from endometrial adenocarcinoma were investigated by dot blot hybridization after polymerase chain reaction amplification of ras g...

Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of ectopic endometrial tissue outside the uterus, and is an uncommon benign finding in peritoneal washing cytology. Diagnosis of this process is challenging, especially in the context of a known endometrial malignancy, where the presence or absence of peritoneal involvement is believed to have prognostic implications. In such cases, it is important...

Endometrial cancer is the third most common gynecologic cancer in the Korea and occurs mainly in menopausal women. Although it can develop in young premenopausal women cancer as well, an attack in the adolescent girl is very rare. A 13-year-old girl visited gynecology department with the complaint of abnormal uterine bleeding. An endometrial biopsy revealed FIGO (International Federation of Gyn...

Hysteroscopy and uterine curettage are required in cases of atypical hyperplasia in premenopause and in all cases of hyperplasia with/without atypia in postmenopausal women. Biopsic curettage is the method of choice in the diagnosis of endometrial pathology. Transvaginal ultrasound and Doppler examination are useful in assessing the risk of endometrial hyperplasia or endometrial cancer in postm...