OBJECTIVE To compare the diagnostic performance and radiation dose between contrast-enhanced CT (ECT) alone, and combined unenhanced and contrast-enhanced CT (UE + ECT) for the assessment of adnexal mass. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective study was approved by the Institutional Review Board. A total of 146 consecutive patients (mean age, 41.1 years) who underwent preoperative unenhance...

Adnexal masses are common in gynecology practice and the decision to treat the patient by observation, laparoscopy, or laparotomy will often depend upon basic evaluation in various age groups of women. In the United States, a woman has a 5-10% lifetime risk of undergoing surgery for an adnexal mass and, of these, benign neoplasms constitute a significant number, but 4% of new ovarian cancers ex...

© 2010 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-0880 Journal Compilation © 2010 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Most cutaneous adnexal tumours show poor differentiation or differentiate toward only one adnexal structure. Trichoblastomas are benign tumours with hair germ differentiation. We describe here a trichoblastoma-like tumour appearing on the scalp of an elderly woman and propose tha...

Because pelvic ultrasound is commonly used to evaluate adnexal masses, it is important to understand the most useful sonographic features for predicting benign and malignant masses. Determining whether an adnexal mass is of ovarian or extraovarian origin is key in arriving at the most likely diagnosis. Most adnexal masses are benign, and each of the most common benign ovarian lesions has a typi...

To analyse the prevalence of (pre) malignant lesions occurring in breast and adnexal tissue at prophylactic surgery in women at hereditary high risk of breast and/or ovarian cancers. Tissue was obtained from 85 women who underwent prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (pBSO) and from 59 women who underwent prophylactic mastectomy (pM). Control tissue samples were obtained from women unde...

BACKGROUND Microcystic adnexal carcinoma, or sclerosing sweat duct carcinoma, is an uncommon cutaneous neoplasm associated with extensive local invasion. The standard of care with regard to the best excisional method in treating microcystic adnexal carcinoma has not been established. OBJECTIVES To perform a retrospective study comparing patients treated by Mohs micrographic surgery with those...

PURPOSE We identified the genomic signature of ocular adnexal lymphoproliferative disorders (LPDs), especially ocular adnexal mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma, IgG4-related ophthalmic disease (IgG4-ROD), reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (RLH), and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). METHODS We included 52 subjects with ocular adnexal LPDs (13 orbital MALT lymphomas, 16 conjun...

Isolated torsion of hydrosalpinx is a rare cause of acute pelvic pain. Pre-operative diagnosis is very difficult because of non specific clinical presentation. Definitive diagnosis is always made at surgical exploration performed for suspected adnexal torsion and salpingectomy is performed in the majority of cases. A 34-year-old woman was admitted for acute pelvic pain with nausea and vomiting....

OBJECTIVE To study the clinical and histological nature of benign adnexal masses managed surgically. METHODS A retrospective descriptive study in a teaching hospital in Oman of all the women who had surgical management of benign adnexal masses from January 2008 to May 2012. Data pertaining to age, parity, presenting symptoms, imaging and tumor markers performed and the surgical intervention d...

BACKGROUND Paraneoplastic syndromes are a heterogeneous collection of disease manifestations caused by underlying neoplasms, which can include adnexal masses. CASE We report a case of paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis consisting of confusion, agitation, and aggression, which subsequently progressed to a comatose state, in the presence of an adnexal mass. It was cured with resection of a matu...