absract a case of 69- year-old woman with large pelvic mass and ascites is reported in this paper. with the exception of mild pelvic pain and a pelvic mass in pelvic , she had no symptom or sign . all routine and hormonal lab tests and tumor marker's were normal. the mri revealed a large mass in anterosuperior of uterus, and left ovary was situated in neighborhood of pelvic mass.her uterus norm...

Ovarian fibromas are the most common benign solid ovarian tumors, which preoperative diagnosis often is difficult. Ovarian fibromas, especially in bilateral cases, may be representative of Gorlin syndrome.Gorlin syndrome (GS) is a rare autosomal dominant disorder with predisposition to basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) and other various benign and malignant tumors. To report a case of a young patien...

AIMS To find specific magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features to differentiate metastatic ovarian tumors from primary epithelial ovarian cancers. METHODS Eleven cases with metastatic ovarian tumors and 26 cases with primary malignant epithelial ovarian cancers were retrospectively studied. All features such as patient characteristics, MRI findings and biomarkers were evaluated. The differen...

A 54-year-old woman with long-lasting pleural effusion developed abdominal distention due to ascites from bilateral ovarian tumors. The patient had undergone breast-conserving surgery and axillary lymph node dissection for left breast cancer in October 2000, and had developed left pleural effusion in July 2006. Cytological examination of the pleural effusion found no malignant cells. Thoracic d...

We report a case of a 44-year-old woman with bilateral ovarian carcinoma that had metastasized from the colon and mimicked primary mucinous cystadenocarcinoma. Macroscopically, both ovarian tumors were large, multiloculated cystic masses with abundant mucinous content. Histologically, they were lined with mucinous epithelium with mild to moderate nuclear atypia and showed stromal invasion and s...

Ovarian borderline serous tumors are uncommon. Combination of borderline serous adenofibromatous tumor and prominent micro papillary architecture is not previously reported. We report a case of borderline papillary serous adenofibromatous tumor (also called serous adenocarcinofibroma) with extensive micropapillary pattern in a 27 year-old married woman. She was infertile and presented with diff...

ovarian borderline serous tumors are uncommon. combination of borderline serous adenofibromatous tumor and prominent micro papillary architecture is not previously reported. we report a case of borderline papillary serous adenofibromatous tumor (also called serous adenocarcinofibroma) with extensive micropapillary pattern in a 27 year-old married woman. she was infertile and presented with diff...

Primary signet-ring cell carcinoma (SRCC) of vermiform appendix is extremely rare; only three cases have been reported in the English literature. A 52-year-old woman presented with abdominal mass. Physical examination revealed bilateral huge tumors in her ovarian sites. Blood tests demonstrated anemia and elevated tumor markers (CEA, 40 ng/ml; CA125, 580 ng/ml; CA72.4, 1771 U/ml; STN-AG, 19,000...