OBJECTIVE To investigate clinical features and ultrasound findings in cases of placental site trophoblastic tumor (PSTT). METHODS Fourteen cases of PSTT treated at our institution between May 2004 and October 2010 were identified and the clinical features and findings on transvaginal sonography (TVS) were investigated. Pathological confirmation of PSTT was obtained in all cases. RESULTS The...

Patient K.N., age 30, nulliparous deliveries and with one miscarriage, was admitted to the Institute of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Center of Serbia, in December 2000 with the following diagnosis: Uterine myoma and adnexal mass.

Epithelioid trophoblastic tumor (ETT) is a rare gestational trophoblastic tumor. Cases of ETT present as abnormal vaginal bleeding in women of reproductive age, with low human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) levels. ETT can be a sequela of any gestational event and can present in both intrauterine and extrauterine sites. Metastasis and death have been reported. We present a case of a 44-year-old f...

INTRODUCTION An epithelial trophoblastic tumor (ETT) is a kind of rare trophoblastic tumor that may have the correlation with a prior gestational event. Especially, the one that appears in the lung is extremely rare. CASE SUMMARY Here, we present a 24-year-old female patient with the chief complain of vaginal bleeding for more than 1 month, who was found to have a large mass (7.5 × 4.5 cm) in...

The lung is a distant metastatic site of gynecologic cancers. These metastases have clinical characteristics which can be solitary, multiple, solid, or manifest by pleural effusion. Diagnosing and managing metastasis challenging because each type gynecological cancer has different characteristics. Some cancers tumor markers that help diagnose metastasis; however, others do not them. options for...

We report an uncommon clinical presentation of a placental site trophoblastic tumor. The patient presented initially with abdominal pain with, fever, bleeding and pelvic mass on ultrasonography leading to the wrong diagnosis abscess. Dilation curettage were performed pathological examination confirmed diagnosis. Therefore, she underwent hysterectomy. Four years after surgery, is still di...

BACKGROUND Cancer is mainly watched through the prism of random mutations and related corruption of signaling pathways. However, it would seem puzzling to explain the tumor organization, pugnacity and steady evolution of the tumorous disease and, moreover, a systematic ascendancy over the healthy tissues, only through stochastic genomic alterations. MALIGNANCY SPECIFIC PROPERTIES Considering ...