BACKGROUND: Primary ovarian mucinous tumors with mural nodules are very rare. The histogenesis of the mural nodules remains unclear. METHODS: We investigated the clincopathological and molecular features in 3 cases with mural nodules. RES…
BACKGROUND: Ovarian signet ring cell carcinomas are predominantly metastatic. Cases coexisting with endometriotic cysts are extremely rare, and are supposed to be primary. However, such cases have not been well-documented to date. CASE PRE…
The object of this study is to investigate the prognosis and potential histologic origin of uterine intravenous leiomyomatosis (IVL). We retrospectively analyzed the clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical features of 13 cases of IVL from…
BACKGROUND: Enteric-type glandular lesions are extremely rare in the vagina. Their histological origin remains a matter of speculation at present. METHOD: We review two rectal mucosal prolapse-like polyps and one intestinal-type adenosis i…
Ovarian carcinoma is the most lethal gynecological malignancy worldwide. Recent advance in genomic/epigenomic researches will impact on our prevention, detection and intervention on ovarian carcinoma. Detection of germline mutations in BRCA…
BACKGROUND: Serous carcinoma arising in adenomyosis and adenomyotic cyst is very rare. Only 3 serous carcinomas and 5 serous endometrial intraepithelial carcinomas (EIC) have been reported to date. METHODS: We reviewed the clinicopathologi…