BACKGROUND Endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS) is a malignant tumour with its origin in the endometrial stroma. Little is known about the pathogenesis, risk factors, optimal therapy or outcome of this disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS Eleven patients with ESS, treated between 1972 and 1996, are reported on. The hospital records of all the patients, including pathology and operative reports, were re...

AIM OF THE STUDY Aim of the study was the assessment of prognostic factors in the group of primary invasive vaginal carcinoma (PIVC) patients subjected to radical radiation therapy MATERIAL AND METHODS The analysis was performed for the group of 152 PIVC patients treated with intracavitary brachytherapy alone (16.5%), the combination of brachytherapy and external radiotherapy (78.9%), or exte...

PURPOSE To illustrate the anesthetic management of a craniotomy for suprasellar meningioma in a 28-week pregnant woman and to review the considerations for fetal monitoring during surgery. CLINICAL FEATURES A 33-yr-old woman presented at 28 weeks of gestation with rapidly deteriorating vision in her right eye. Neuroradiological investigations revealed a large suprasellar meningioma extending ...

primary cardiac lymphoma is a rare disease which mainly found in elderly men. it is usually a b-cell non-hodgkin’s lymphoma which primarily located in the heart and may involve the pericardium. the common presentations include massive pericardial effusion and heart failure. clinical diagnosis is often delayed in these patients and prognosis is dismal. we report a case of a 70-year-old man prese...

Adenomyosis is a benign disease whose symptoms mimic those of uterine leiomyoma. Hysterectomy is the treatment of choice; conservative surgery is difficult to perform and can damage the uterine structural integrity. We report the case of a 36-year-old woman who had difficulty conceiving because of profuse menometrorrhagia. An 84 cm3 uterine tumour was diagnosed on ultrasonography as leiomyoma, ...

Synovial sarcomas (SS) account for 5-10% of soft-tissue sarcomas and typically arise in the para-articular regions of adolescents and young adults. Nonetheless, SS can occasionally occur in other regions of the body. Here, we present a first clinical literature report of a patient with an SS arising from the vaginal wall. A 40-year-old patient who presented a necrotic polypoid lesion, measuring...