BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the frequencies of various types of orbital lesions seen at a comprehensive cancer center in the United States. METHODS In this retrospective case series, we reviewed the medical records of 268 consecutive patients referred to our orbital oncology service for evaluation of an orbital mass between November 1998 and February 2009. Each orbita...

RATIONALE Adnexal torsion is 1 of the most common emergency gynecological disease. It is more often diagnosed in reproductive age, but rarely in postmenopausal women. The clinical symptoms of adnexal torsion are nonspecific in postmenopausal women. Epithelial ovarian tumors are common in adults, and the risk of malignancy increases with age, especially after menopause. So, it is difficult to di...

Gynecological ultrasound is one of the most accurate imaging technique in clinical practice. It is characterized by minimal invasiveness, tolerability, repeatability, fast execution and low cost, changing completely the methodological approach to diagnosis of adnexal pathology, in particular those one from ovary. Vaginal ultrasonography is a practical and reliable method to monitor structural c...

The diagnosis and the treatment of twisted ovarian tumors are still challenging, especially in adolescent girls. We describe an girl with a cyst, whom emergent laparoscopic surgery was successful. She visited us due to severe abdominal pain. Ultrasound revealed large cystic mass, indicative cyst. Laparoscopy left cyst on its axis. punctured detorsed it. lessons learned here are: sudden-onset pa...

We report here on the multiple genital tract neoplasms in a 41-yr-old Korean woman with Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (PJS). The patient presented with lower abdominal pain. Her previous medical history was PJS and breast cancer. Pelvic ultrasound showed a multilocular cyst at the right adnexal region, diagnosed as bilateral ovarian mucinous borderline tumors. An ovarian sex cord tumor with annular tu...

We present a case of 59-year-old woman with clinical symptoms of a pelvic mass. She underwent an abdominal computed tomography (CT) scanning which demonstrated adnexal mass with solid and cystic components. The biopsy confirmed a malignant Brenner tumor. Then, a 18F-FDG PET/CT study was performed for disease staging and showed a high FDG uptake with heterogeneous distribution in solid component...