BACKGROUND In contemporary gynecological practice, encountering giant ovarian tumors is a rarity. While most are benign and of the mucinous subtype, the borderline variant only accounts for approximately 10% of these cases. This paper addre…
PURPOSE: To evaluate whether laparoscopic treatment with a diode laser is feasible, safe, and effective in symptomatic patients affected by deep endometriosis (DE). METHODS: This retrospective study was performed using medical record data.…
Endometriosis is a frequent gynecological disorder that affects 3% to 15% of the general premenopausal female population. Recently, some studies have suggested that women suffering from endometriosis, especially if ovarian endometriosis (en…
Background \nSingle-port access laparoscopy (SPAL) technique is developing in thegynaecological field This approach may increase the benefits of traditional minimally invasive surgery such as decreased blood loss and postoperative pain, fas…
The most recent evidences suggest the use of progesterone mimicking drugs for the treatment of endometriosis. Particularly, dienogest has been largely tested. However, the standard treatment of extra-pelvic endometriosis is debated. Particu…
The diagnosis rate of deep pelvic endometriosis is increasing. Endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS) is a rare neoplasm. Extragenital ESS is an extremely uncommon event. Very few cases of extragenital ESS have been reported to date. The diagnos…
OBJECTIVE: To analyze clinicopathologic patterns of early ovarian carcinoma. DESIGN: Retrospective chart and histopathology review. SETTING: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York and the Centre Jean Perrin, Clermont Ferrand, France. P…
OBJECTIVE: To report a case of endometrioid adenocarcinoma that arose in endometriosis mimicking colorectal cancer in a young woman with a Müllerian anomaly. DESIGN: A case report. SETTING: A university hospital. PATIENT(S): A 31-year-ol…
OBJECTIVES: We compared the perioperative morbidity of laparoscopic hysterectomy for gynecologic oncologic (group A) and benign gynecologic (group B) indications at a single institution. METHODS: This is a retrospective analysis of 159 con…
Vaginal clear cell adenocarcinoma arising from pelvic endometriosis has not been reported in the literature. We report a case of a 50-year-old woman with stage I clear cell adenocarcinoma of the vagina who was found to have endometriosis ad…