BACKGROUND: Ovarian sex-cord stromal tumors (SCST) take up 5% of the ovarian neoplasm and may develop into an ovarian mass or a haemoperitoneum. The surgical management of SCST in early-stage adult patients is not well defined. CASE REPORT: A 69 year-old postmenopausal woman was admitted for metrorrhagia, a right ovary mass and increasing pelvic pain. Preoperative clinical and instrumental exam...

A 48-year-old woman underwent total abdominal hysterectomy with conservation of the ovaries and tubes. Histology showed a well-circumscribed smooth muscle tumor with foci of degeneration (including infarct-type necrosis) but no coagulative tumor cell necrosis and only mild focal cytological atypia. She presented, 24 years later with shortness of breath and abdominal distension and underwent bil...

Gastric schwannomas are rare mesenchymal tumors that arise from the nerve plexus of gut wall. They present with nonspecific symptoms and are often detected incidentally. Preoperative investigation is not pathognomic and many are therefore misdiagnosed as gastrointestinal stromal tumors. We report a rare case of a 37-year old woman who underwent laparotomy for complex bilateral ovarian cyst with...

The polycystic ovary syndrome was diagnosed according to the following criteria: [1] bilateral polycystic ovaries on ultrasonography; [2] oligomenorrhea or amenorrhea, hirsutism, obesity, or chronic anovulation, or any combination of these conditions; [3] hyperandrogenemia (elevated serum levels of testosterone, free testosterone, or androstenedione); [4] elevated serum LH levels; and [5] exclu...

Purpose: We report an unusual case of trabecular carcinoid of the ovary with orbital involvement. Methods: We encountered a 49-year-old woman with a complaint of bilateral proptosis. Ocular examination revealed severe bilateral proptosis and signs of corneal exposure. Orbital CT scan showed massive enlargement of extraocular muscles and optic nerve compression. The patient medical history showe...

background and objective: ovarian tumors are among the most frequent pathologic conditions in gynecologic practice and a frequent cause of hospitalization and surgery. the aim of this study was to determine histologic distribution of benign operated masses especially functional ovarian cysts. material and methods: benign ovarian files of operated patients (2961 cases) in 20 tertiary and seconda...

background: thromboembolism is the most important complication of cancers.the aim of this study was to determine d-dimer levels in benign and malignant tumors of the uterus, ovary and cervix. subjects and methods: this was a cross sectional study and it was conducted on 90 female patients referred to imam khomeini and arash hospitals because of uterine, cervical and ovarian tumors in 2013-2014....

BACKGROUND This study was designed to investigate the clinical characteristics correlated with serum CA19-9 elevation in primary mucinous ovarian tumors and to evaluate the role of serum CA19-9 in predicting borderline or malignant tumors. MATERIAL/METHODS We retrospectively identified 27 women with pathologically-confirmed primary ovarian mucinous neoplasms (16 borderline and 11 malignant), wh...

Presence of ovarian tumors in pregnancy is uncommon. In most cases, they are benign, torsion the common complication. Management can be conservative or surgical depending on size, clinical presentation, gestational age, available resources etc. advances imaging techniques have made decision making easier. We present a case primigravida aged 24 years, with 18 weeks’ pain abdomen. She had large m...