Actinomycosis has been recognized to be associated with the use of intrauterine contraceptive device. We are reporting a case where a patient with severe pelvic actinomycosis presented with the clinical picture of an ovarian tumour. A 44-year-old lady attended the A&E with progressively worsening lower abdominal pain. A computerized tomography (CT) scan showed the presence of a large pelvic mas...

Meigs’ syndrome represents a triad of pleural effusion, ascites, and an ovarian tumor, which is usually benign, occurring together. We describe here 2 patients with Meigs’ syndrome and 2 patients with pseudo-Meigs’ syndrome. Hydrothorax and ascites symptoms in 4 patients are of outstanding performance characteristics of Meigs’ syndrome and pseudo-Meigs’ syndrome. Ovarian tumors were found by cl...

BACKGROUND Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma (MPM) can masquerade as an ovarian epithelial neoplasm, with very similar presenting clinical symptoms and imaging findings. The gold standard in differentiating between these two diagnoses lies in tissue pathology. CASE REPORT This is a case of MPM that was initially misdiagnosed as ovarian cancer based on family history, imaging, and surgical fin...

Hypothyroidism is a common health issue worldwide with varying clinical manifestations. We report a woman who experienced an incomplete abortion and undiagnosed hypothyroidism who was referred to the oncologist with the suspicion of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasm (GTN). A 29-year-old woman with incomplete abortion was referred to an oncologist for possible GTN due to persistent a...

Tamoxifen has been widely used for adjuvant treatment of breast cancer, but several gynecological side effects have been noted, including endometrial hyperplasia, polyp and carcinoma. Polypoid endometriosis is one of the extremely rare benign complications associated with tamoxifen therapy. A 66-year-old postmenopausal woman, who had received left partial mastectomy due to breast cancer (about ...

Dysgerminoma is an uncommon tumor,accounting for 1-2% of primary ovarian neoplasm and for 35% of ovarian malignancies.Tumor may occur at any age from infancy to old age,but most cases occur in adolescence and early adult life.Dysgerminoma occur not infrequently before puberty but is very rare after menopause.Literature states that about 2% of nonpregnant patient with dysgerminoma present with e...

During the eighteen-year period in "Sestre milosrdnice" University Hospital Center, Zagreb, 271 women with ovarian tumor was studied. 229 women with ovarian cancer and 42 with borderline tumor. The pathohistological types of tumors were different. The age of the patients ranged from 20-83 years. In all patients the value of biochemical marker CA125 was determined. The aim of this study was to d...

Ovarian and paraovarian neoplasms are uncommon in children, mainly originating from germ cell tumors and, least frequently, epithelial tumors. There is an association between genital tract tumors and Proteus syndrome, a rare, sporadic, and progressive entity, characterized by a postnatal overgrowth in several tissues caused by a mosaic mutation in the AKT1 gene. We describe a 20-month-old asymp...

A 31-year-old woman presented to King Abdulaziz University Hospital complaining of an abdominal pain and a rapid increase in abdominal girth. An ultrasound and MRI, revealed a huge cystic ovarian mass without ascites. Ovarian tumor markers were all within normal range. Exploratory laparotomy showed huge right ovarian mass with omental mass. Frozen section from the omentum showed metastatic mali...