gastrointestinal stromal tumors (gists) are rare and these tumors are mesenchymal tumors that develop in the wall of the gi tract. the aim of this study was to report a case with gist in pregnancy in western iran. a 39-year-old pregnant female (g5 p4) was admitted with a chief complaint of abdominal pain and epigastric fullness on 12 th april 2016. sonography showed gestational age of 15w+1d an...

background: endometriosis is the presence of endometrial tissue outside of the uterine cavity and is the most common gynecologic disorder in women of reproductive age. we have preliminary evidence that in the presence of a 3-dimensional (3-d) fibrin matrix, human endometrial glands, stroma, and neovascularization can develop in vitro, mimicking the earliest stages of endometriosis. the aim of t...

Background: Endometriosis, a disease affecting 3-10% of women of reproductive age, is characterized by the ectopic growth of endometrial glands and stroma surrounded by dense fibrous tissue. Whereas, normal eutopic endometrium shows scarless tissue repair during menstrual cycles, which suggests that the endometriotic tissues have distinct mechanisms of fibrogenesis. During the development of en...

one of the unusual variant of ovarian tumor is sex cord stromal tumor with annular tubules (sctat). the recurrence in case of malignant ovarian sctat ranges from 3mo to 20yr. this report describes the case of recurrence of sctat in a 35yr old woman after 4yr of hysterectomy with bilateral salphingo-oopherectomy. microscopic examination revealed features of sctat. because of its unusual behavior...

purpose: to determine the dissection level during deep lamellar keratoplasty (dalk) using the big-bubble technique by light microscopy (lm) and transmission electron microscopy (tem). methods: descemet’s membrane (dm) and stromal tissue of 4 keratoconic eyes were removed because of inadvertent intraoperative dm perforation during dalk which was converted to penetrating keratoplasty. these speci...

Endometrial stromal sarcoma represents a very rare pathological entity occurring as a malignant disease in women genital sphere, frequently in the age group of 40-50 years. Low grade endometrial stromal sarcoma (LGESS) is a rare uterine sarcoma constituting 0.2% of all the uterine malignancies with a good prognosis despite a tendency to recur. We report a case of 42 years old woman presented wi...

purpose: to compare keratocyte density in stromal layers of the cornea in keratoconus, post-lasik keratectasia, lasik without keratectasia, and normal corneas by confocal scan. methods: thirty-one unscarred corneas from 22 patients with keratoconus, 24 clear corneas from 17 cases with post-lasik keratectasia, 12 corneas from 7 lasik cases without keratectasia, and 26 corneas from 13 normal subj...