In the absence of significant extracranial disease, patients with solitary brain metastases have shown benefit with resection. Brain lesions due to endometrial cancer are uncommon, and the only described skull base involvement is limited to the pituitary gland. We report the case of a 60-year-old female with endometrial cancer who presented with weeks of right cheek pain and numbness that was a...

This study compares the clinical efficacy and safety of a thermal uterine balloon system with hysteroscopic endometrial resection in the treatment of dysfunctional uterine bleeding. In all, 147 women were treated by two experienced gynaecological surgeons: one performed 73 thermal balloon ablations and the other 74 endometrial resections between November 1994 and April 1998. The inclusion crite...

PURPOSE To evaluate the accuracy of sonographic endometrial thickness and hysteroscopic characteristics in predicting malignancy in postmenopausal women undergoing surgical resection of endometrial polyps. METHODS Five hundred twenty-one (521) postmenopausal women undergoing hysteroscopic resection of endometrial polyps between January 1998 and December 2008 were studied. For each value of so...

•Peritoneal mesometrial resection is a compartment based radical hysterectomy in endometrial cancer•ICG staining of the lymph-vessel system facilitates identification of compartment borders•Fluorescence based HD-video documentation supports education in surgery of endometrial cancer.

27 Background. The objectives of this study were to determine the effectiveness the 28 effectiveness of post-polypectomy hysteroscopic endometrial resection in preventing the 29 recurrence of endometrial polyps in post-menopausal patients and analyse the 30 complications and necessity of additional surgery in patients, in addition to their degree 31 of satisfaction. 32 Methods. A prospective lo...

We present a 32-year-old patient with solitary brain metastasis of endometrial carcinoma. The single frontal lobe metastasis was determined seven months after surgical staging of endometrial adenocarcinoma. The initial diagnosis was determined by hysterescopic resection of an endometrial polyp. The lesion was only limited to the endometrial polyp and there was no evidence of disease at the path...

Background: Although the peak incidence of endometrial carcinoma is in postmenopausal women, it affects young women who wish to preserve fertility. The aim of this study was to assess oncologic and reproductive outcomes of fertility-sparing treatment using hysteroscopic resection followed by progesterone for early-stage endometrial carcinoma in young women in the western region of China. Method...

•It is reported the first endometrial stromal nodule (ESN) in the vagina.•This is an excepcionall ESN because it was not associated with endometriosis•It was successfully treated by local resection.•Primary vulvovaginal endometrial stromal neoplasms are rare (only 5 reported).