INTRODUCTION: Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) is a less common subtype accounting for approximately 5% of all epithelial ovarian cancers (EOCs). Clinical experience and research findings confirm the remarkable differences in clinical be…
A 37-year-old woman presented at casualty with a 1-day history of progressive spontaneous left iliac fossa pain. She was having her menstruations for 4 days. She had no respiratory symptoms. Her medical history consisted of laparoscopic sur…
We report the case of a 23-year-old woman admitted for a haemoperitoneum secondary to the rupture of an ovarian endometrioid cyst. Preoperative investigations revealed the diagnosis of acute myeloid leukaemia of M3 type complicated by sever…
SummaryA case of Candida peritonitis in a female CAPD patient is described. The patient was known to have retrograde menstruation and peritonitis developed after insertion of an IUD during a period of fungal vaginitis. It is believed that t…
SummaryA 36-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital for surgical treatment of a fourth recurrence of right-sided spontaneous pneumothorax. During thoracotomy histologically proved endometriosis of the pleura overlying the right hemidiap…
SummaryTubo-ovarian cancer presents itself under two main clinical forms, the first with an essentially abdominal development, the second mainly pelvic or pelvi-parametrial and represented histologically by anovarian or tubular epithelioma.…