Blue nevi are uncommon, asymptomatic lesions of the uterine cervix. These lesions are not often detected clinically or on colposcopy.Careful histopathological examination is required. The nevus cells are said to originate from the immature melanoblasts of the neural crest. These lesions need to be differentiated from malignant melanoma and melanosis of the cervix. We present here a case report ...

February 2011, Vol. 101, No. 2 SAMJ A 30-year-old woman was seen at 24 weeks for a discrepancy between the symphysis-fundal height and the gestation by dates. Ultrasound examination revealed a twin pregnancy and showed the placentas to be implanted ‘back-to-back’ over what appeared to be a septum that extended from the uterine fundus to the cervix (Fig. 1). A bicornuate unicollis uterus was con...

Primary uterine non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is extremely rare accounting for <1% of all extranodal non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Imaging findings of primary uterine lymphoma have rarely been reported before. We present magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/CT findings in a patient with primary uterine peripheral T-cell lymphoma.A 27...

Introduction: Primary malignant melanomas (MM) of the female urogenital tract are extremely rare and aggressive neoplasms. The majority these neoplasms occur in postmenopausal women, originate from vulva vagina, involvement uterus, cervix, ovary is exceedingly uncommon. Case Presentation: We presented a patient with MM uterine first diagnosed punch biopsy lesion, which was distributed cervical ...

UNLABELLED THE BACKGROUND: Ribonuclease L (RNASEL), encoding the 2'-5'-oligoadenylate (2-5A)-dependent RNase L, is a key enzyme in the interferon induced antiviral and anti-proliferate pathway. Mutations in RNASEL segregate with the disease in prostate cancer families and specific genotypes are associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer. Infection by human papillomavirus (HPV) is the ...

BACKGROUND Melanosis of the uterine cervix is a rare, benign, melanocytic lesion of the cervix. A review of the English-language literature revealed 11 other reported cases. CASE A 52-year-old African American woman who presented for evaluation and treatment of menorrhagia was found to have an irregular, pigmented cervical lesion. The ectocervical biopsy showed melanosis characterized by hype...

OBJECTIVES Our aim was to evaluate a new electrosurgical instrument (Lap Loop device) that amputates the uterine corpus from the cervix during a laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy (LSH) and to compare the time required for cervical amputation with traditional methods. METHODS This comparative trial was conducted at the University of Louisville and Norton Healthcare Hospitals, Louisville,...

AIM To evaluate pre-treatment serum C-reactive protein (CRP) level as a prognostic parameter in patients with adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix. MATERIALS AND METHODS Pre-treatment CRP levels were analyzed to determine potential associations with clinicopathological parameters and to assess prognostic value in 46 patients with sole adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix. RESULTS The mean (...