Konstantin Zakashansky
ORCID: 0000-0003-2038-0023
· 11 papers in corpus
case-report
2023
INTRODUCTION AND IMPORTANCE: Ovarian carcinosarcomas (OCS) are highly aggressive tumors containing both carcinomatous and sarcomatous elements. Patients are typically older postmenopausal women who present with advanced disease, however rar…
2021
2019
other
2015
BACKGROUND: High-grade serous ovarian and endometrial cancers are the most lethal female reproductive tract malignancies worldwide. In part, failure to treat these two aggressive cancers successfully centers on the fact that while the major…
case-report
2014
Background. Benign cystic mesothelioma (BCM) is a rare tumor that arises from the abdominal peritoneum with a predilection to the pelvic peritoneum. For this reason, it can often mimic gynecologic malignancies. Case. A 47-year-old perimenop…
observational
2009
e20562 Background: Most women with gynecologic cancer must undergo surgery as part of their treatment. Research suggests that laparoscopic surgery may lead to fewer side effects and faster recovery than laparotomy. Clinically, however, it i…
observational
2008
Alternatives to hysterectomy such as medical treatment, uterine artery embolization (UAE), and ablative therapy have become available and widely used in the last 10 years. It is unclear if these alternatives are replacing hysterectomy or de…
other
2008
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: To compare intraoperative, pathologic and postoperative outcomes of robotic radical hysterectomy (RRH) to total laparoscopic radical hysterectomy (TLRH) in patients with early stage cervical carcinoma. METHODS: W…
case-report
2007
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…
case-report
2007
Xanthogranulomatous salpingitis is an unusual inflammatory lesion of the fallopian tube, characterized by accumulation of foamy macrophages in the wall of the fallopian tube along with other chronic inflammatory cells. Only a few cases of x…
review
2006
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…