OBJECTIVE To assess independent prognostic factors described in the literature. Thus, to identify different risk groups. METHODS Review of the records with a diagnosis of primary vulvar squamous cell carcinoma (January/1992-January/2012). INCLUSION CRITERIA depth of stromal invasion (DSI) >1mm, pathological tumor size >2 cm, and pathological tumor-free margin ≥ 8 mm. Patients who underwent ...

squamous cell carcinoma of the gallbladder is rare and constitutes only 0.5-3% of all malignancies of this organ. most of the reported cases have had a component of adenocarcinoma. we report a 70-year-old man who presented with acute onset right upper quadrant pain. he operated on based on a presumptive diagnosis of acute cholecystitis according to clinical and ultrasonographic findings. histop...

Standard therapy for squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the vulva consists of radical surgery and inguinal node dissection. Radiation therapy has been used for preoperative treatment in advanced cases to reduce the size of the tumor, and also as the only treatment in inoperable or recurrent disease. To study the inherent radiation sensitivity of vulvar carcinoma, we tested three new vulvar carcin...

isolated skeletal metastasis to the bony calvarium is extremely rare in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix. we describe the clinical and imaging findings in a case of squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix with metastases to the bony calvarium as the sole site of metastasis. the patient was a 65-year-old woman with squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix, f...

methods: we examined 170 formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded samples from esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients. all subjects live in mazandaran province, a region with high incidence rate of esophageal cancer and have become known as the “asian esophageal cancer belt”. samples were tested for hpv-dna by my09/11 and gp5+/6+ general primers using nested pcr. results: of the 170 escc samples, ...

OBJECTIVES To analyze margin status and prognostic factors for complications in patients undergoing vulvectomy for invasive squamous cell cancer (iSCC) with and without plastic-assisted closure. METHODS Demographic and clinical data were collected on 94 patients with iSCC who underwent vulvectomy between 2004 and 2013. All pathology slides were re-reviewed by two gynecologic pathologists. Dat...