INTRODUCTION Pleomorphic giant cell pancreatic cancer is a very rare and aggressive pancreatic neoplasm. A case of pleomorphic giant cell pancreatic cancer presenting as a cystic lesion and in association with a serous cystadenoma presents a unique case which has not been described before. CASE PRESENTATION A 44-year-old alcoholic man presented with abdominal pain, vomiting, and weight loss. ...

Ovarian epithelial cancer is the leading cause of death among gynecological malignancies. FSH may increase the risk of ovarian malignancy and play an important role in ovarian carcinogenesis. Our previous studies showed that FSH increases the expression of VEGF through survivin. In this study, the function and mechanism of FSH in ovarian cancer were further explored. We found that FSH promoted ...

A 34-year-old woman (gravida 5, para 5) presented with dysuria, right flank pain and progressive leg edema lasting for one week. She assumed she was pregnant due to progressive abdominal distension accompanied by amenorrhea beginning five months previously. However, she did not receive a prenatal examination due to her poor socioeconomic status. Physical examination revealed a severely distende...

Context Cystic lesions of the pancreas are a common finding in patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease (vHL). However, only twelve cases of pancreatic cystic lesions causing obstructive jaundice have been reported in vHL patients. Case report Herein we report the rare case of a massive serous cystadenoma of the pancreatic head causing obstructive jaundice in a fifty-one-year-old female with vHL...

A collision tumor is the coexistence of two distinct tumours without any histological intermixing in same organ or tissue. Each component tumors occurs coincidently and biologic behaviour depends on their own characteristics. 48 year aged P2L2 women with pain abdomen since 15 days, abdominal examination-a cystic mass occupying left iliac fossa present, bimanual examination a measuring 13x10x8 c...

BACKGROUND Expectant management of serous cystadenoma (SCA) of the pancreas requires an accurate preoperative diagnosis. Previously published cytologic diagnostic sensitivities have ranged widely, from 10% to 100%. In the current study, the authors evaluated the diagnostic sensitivity of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) and cross-sectional imaging for SCA....

Warshaw, A. L, Compton, C. C., Lewandrowski, K., Cardenosa, G. and Mueller, P. R. (1990) Cystic tumors of the pancreas. New clinical, radiologic and pathologic observations in 67 patiems. Annals ofSurgery, 212, 432-445. Within a 12-year period we treated 67 patients (49 women, 18 men; mean age, 61 years) with cystic neoplasms of the pancreas, including 18 serous cystic adenomas, 15 benign mucin...

In this case we report a 23 -year-old primigravida with 30 weeks presenting with torsion of the ovarian cyst. She presented to the antenatal clinic with acute pain abdomen. She was diagnosed to have torsion of ovarian cyst during pregnancy and a cystecomy was carried out. Her histopathology report showed a benign serous cystadenoma. Her pregnancy was followed up. She delivered a healthy female ...

Background. Primary serous cystadenoma with bordline malignancy in the retroperitoneum is extremely rare entity. To our best knowledge, this is the first report in the world literature. The histogenesis is still unclear although several theories have been proposed. Such tumors are histologically similar to ovarian serous cystadenomas. Case presentation. A 28-year-old woman presented with a six-...

Hilus cell heterotopia is the presence of normal hilus cells in an abnormal site. It is rare and there are only a few case reports or case series. It has been reported in the fimbrial stroma of the fallopian tube, paratubal cyst wall and beneath ovarian capsule. Most cases are more than 40 years of age, and some of them are associated with other underlying pelvic pathology. Hilus cells are ovar...