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 mad...

conclusions a complete immunohistochemical study should be considered in cases of malignant salivary gland tumors. to reduce the recurrence rate of these tumors, the optimum therapies are radiotherapy and chemotherapy. introduction salivary gland tumors are rare head and neck lesions. the majority are benign, with only 20% of cases malignant. an epithelial-myoepithelial carcinoma is a rare low-...

Undifferentiated spindle-cell carcinoma is a rare gallbladder cancer with a worse or similar prognosis to the generally dismal outcome seen in most gallbladder cancer patients. We reported a case of SpCC, stage IV disease that was initially diagnosed as undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma, but deeper sections revealed few clusters of epithelioid clear cells. Although the tumour showed biphasic...

Clear cell sarcoma of soft tissue is a rare type of soft tissue sarcoma. It is derived from melanoblast-like cells located within subcutaneous tissue, tendon and aponeuroses. The tumour is also known as malignant melanoma of soft parts because it has similar morphology to malignant melanoma. Unlike malignant melanoma, however, it is not associated with a cutaneous lesion. We report here two cas...

1. department of pathology, burdwan medical college, burdwan, west bengal, india 2. department of pathology, bankura sammilani medical college, bankura, west bengal, india                   corresponding author: nirmalya chakrabarti, md; tel: (+91) 9477882332 email: [email protected] received: 06 july 2014 accepted: 03 feb. 2015 iran j cancer prev. 2015; 2:129-33.     abstract among...

myeloid sarcoma of female breast is a rare presentation of acute myeloid leukemia (aml). the tumor mass may precede or occur concurrently with aml, cml, myeloproliferative disorders, and/or myelodysplastic syndromes. histologically, it looks like a large cell lymphoma and can be misdiagnosed. a case referred as a suspected case of large cell lymphoma. initial morphological study with convention...