A 54-year-old African-American woman developed a pigmented papillary squamous cell carcinoma in the palpebral and bulbar conjunctiva of the right eye in areas that received no sun exposure. In situ hybridization performed on the tumor showed human papilloma virus 16. The left eye showed a pedunculated nonpigmented conjunctival dysplasia. The tumors were extirpated by cryosurgery and topical int...

human papillomavirus (hpv) dna has been identified in esophageal carcinomas. however, the incidence of hpv varies significantly in different geographical locations. in this study, neoplasms from turkmen sahra, a region in golestan province in northeast part of iran, with a high incidence of squamous cell carcinoma were analyzed for the presence of hpv dna. turkmen sahra is located in the cancer...

background: although color doppler ultrasonography (cdus) is useful in the diagnosis of various diseases of the head and neck, flow signals in oral malignant masses are less studied; hence the present study assesses the usefulness of color doppler ultrasonography in quantifying oral squamous cell carcinoma (oscc) vascularization. in addition, we determine the hemodynamic parameters by spectral ...

Clear cell carcinoma of ovary is uncommon ovarian tumour that arises from surface epithelium of ovary. It has well-known association with ovarian endometriosis. We report here the first case of bilateral clear cell carcinoma of ovaries in a 40-year-old woman with a 17-year history of bilateral ovarian endometriosis. In addition, during the longstanding duration of the endometriosis, the patient...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to identify and describe the clinicopathologic characteristics of tumors of the eye and ocular adnexa at the Philippine Eye Research Institute. METHODS The pathology reports of specimens submitted to the Ocular Pathology Section of the Philippine Eye Research Institute over a 10-year period (2003-2012) were reviewed, and collected data was subjected to descriptive statistic...

background: oral squamous cell carcinoma is the sixth most common malignancy in the world today.  ing1b/p33 is a newly-discovered tumor suppressor which enhances p53 activity. transfer of p33 protein from nucleus to cytoplasmic compartment has been previously reported in leukemias. the objective of this study was to determine the correlation between p33ing1b cytoplasmic transfer and lymph node ...

The history, diagnosis, and treatment by staged bilateral lobectomy of synchronous bilateral squamous cell carcinoma of the lung occurring in a 61-year-old man is presented. Histological diagnosis of pulmonary lesions suspected of being carcinomas should always be obtained, and extrathoracic metastasis should be excluded by all available means before planning treatment. The side showing evidenc...