Background. Mature cystic teratomas of the fallopian tube are extremely rare and only 54 cases have been reported in the literature. In this paper, we report a mature cystic teratoma of the fallopian tube in a postmenopausal woman and we report the review of literature of tubal cystic teratomas. Case. A 62-year-old, gravida 4 postmenopausal woman presented with pain in the right lower abdominal...

Recent evidence suggests that ovarian cancer can originate in the fallopian tube. Unlike many other cancers, poor access to the ovary and fallopian tubes has limited the ability to study the progression of this deadly disease and to diagnosis it during the early stage when it is most amenable to therapy. A rigid confocal microlaparoscope system designed to image the epithelial surface of the ov...

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to estimate the reduction in risk of ovarian, fallopian tube, or peritoneal cancer in women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation after oophorectomy, by age of oophorectomy; to estimate the impact of prophylactic oophorectomy on all-cause mortality; and to estimate 5-year survival associated with clinically detected ovarian, occult, and peritoneal cancers diagno...

BACKGROUND Leiomyosarcoma of the fallopian tube is an extremely unusual gynecologic neoplasm. Since 1886, only 19 of about 35 sarcomas of the fallopian tube have been identified as leiomyosarcomas. As such, clinical diagnosis and therapy management are difficult. CASE REPORT We report on the case of a 59-year-old woman with leiomyosarcoma of the fallopian tube and liver metastases at the time...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the clinical features of fallopian tube accessory ostium and treatment outcomes after laparoscopic treatment. METHODS A retrospective analysis was conducted of patients who underwent laparoscopy for infertility at Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China, between June 1, 2009, and January 31, 2012. Fallopian tube accessory ostium was treated surgically when...

BACKGROUND Primary fallopian tube carcinoma (PFTC) is a rare tumour of the female genital tract with an incidence of 0.1-1.8% of all genital malignancies, and it is very difficult to diagnose preoperatively, because of its non-specific symptomatology. In most cases, it is an intraoperative finding or a histopathological diagnosis. It is a tumour that histologically and clinically resembles epit...

BACKGROUND We offer the first report of laparoscopic repair of an irreducible femoral hernia containing the fallopian tube alone. CASE PRESENTATION An 84-year-old woman presented with a 2-week history of a right groin mass with no abdominal symptoms. The mass was located below the inguinal ligament but showed no redness or tenderness. Abdominal computed tomography demonstrated a 4 × 3-cm cyst...