Background: Ovarian cancer is the most common cause of cancer death worldwide. Incidence of ovarian cancer is more common in postmenopausal women. Premenopausal onset is rare and the present study described two cases of ovarian clear cell tumors in young women. Case Presentation: The patients presented with pelvic mass which was confirmed by sonography and laparotomy and final diagnosis was ...

Pelvic lymph node dissection is the gold standard for assessing nodal disease in prostate or bladder cancer and is superior to CT, MRI and PET staging. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) provides an alternative, less invasive method of cytohistologic material acquisition, but its performance in pelvic urologic malignancy is unknown. Therefore, our aim was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of EUS gui...

AbstractHydatid disease is a widespread parasitic infection caused by tapewormEchinococcus and it affects mainly the liver, but other organs such as pelvic organscould be involved very rare. Here we report a case of hydatid cyst with involvementof oviduct in a woman with endometrial cancer. It was misdiagnosed as a multicysticright ovarian mass before surgery and by microscopic study it was sho...

background endometrial carcinoma is a highly prevalent gynecologic malignancy. the international federation of gynecology and obstetrics (figo) staging system underwent significant revision on 2009. key changes in the figo staging system include simplification of stage i endometrial cancer and removal of cervical mucosal invasion as a separate stage. mri is a noninvasive diagnostic method for p...

the aim of this paper is to introduce new methods of colorectal and anus surgeries. it is not a comprehensive paper and just is a summary of issues related to colon surgeries due to intestinal inflammatory diseases (ulcerative colitis and crohn's disease), and anus cancer. ulcerative colitis usually initiates from rectum and then develops upward to colon. there are three methods of surgery...

BACKGROUND Functional pelvic disorders in patients undergoing conservative surgical approach for rectal cancer are considered a major public health issue and represent one third of cost of colorectal cancer. We investigated the hypothesis that lymphadenectomy, involves the pelvic floor results in a localized hides or silent pelvic lymphedema characterized by symptoms without signs. PATIENTS A...

CONTEXT Pelvic fractures, including hip fractures, are a major source of morbidity and mortality in older women. Although therapeutic pelvic irradiation could increase the risk of such fractures, this effect has not been studied. OBJECTIVE To determine if women who undergo pelvic irradiation for pelvic malignancies (anal, cervical, or rectal cancers) have a higher rate of pelvic fracture than...

BACKGROUND No standard chemotherapy regimen for advanced urothelial cancer has been established, except for cisplatin-based regimens. We report the case of a patient with double primary cancer, urothelial carcinoma of the upper urinary tract and colorectal cancer, who underwent oxaliplatin-based chemotherapies. CASE PRESENTATION A 56-year-old Japanese man presented to our hospital with the di...