A 57-year-old woman presented with an apparently obvious diagnosis of iatrogenic virilization. At the age of 51, she began a 4-year treatment with prednisone or cyclosporine, which are known to promote hair growth, for Behçet disease. At the age of 56, osteoporosis was overtreated with the anabolic steroid nandrolone. Insignificant inhibition by dexamethasone of the extremely high serum concent...

Background: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) can lead to bilateral tumors. Excess adrenocorticotropic hormone is thought play a role in the development of nodules. Here we present patient with simple virilizing form 21-hydroxylase deficiency, married man, tumors, and 46-XX chromosomes.Case report: 39-year-old man suffered from abdominal pain tension. Abdominal tomography showed macronodular...

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...

  Background and Objective: Ovarian tumors are among the most frequent pathologic conditions in gynecologic practice and a frequent cause of hospitalization and surgery. The aim of this study was to determine histologic distribution of benign operated masses especially functional ovarian cysts. Material and Methods: Benign ovarian files of operated patients (2961 cases) in 20 tertiary and sec...

perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (pecoma) is a rare mesenchymal tumor composed of immunohistochemically and histologically distinctive perivascular epithelioid cells. here, we report on the computed tomography (ct) and magnetic resonance imaging (mri) findings of ovarian pecoma with pulmonary metastasis. the tumor was visible as a multilocular hemorrhagic mass that encased the ovarian vessel...