Gary Altwerger
ORCID: 0000-0002-2252-947X
· 6 papers in corpus
case-report
2026
BACKGROUND: Deeply infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) can involve the bowel leading to necrosis with septic shock, a rare complication occurring in 5% of endometriosis patients. This case report aims to illustrate a life-threatening complicat…
case-report
2023
Background: Endometriosis is a common gynecological condition that often presents with pelvic pain and infertility, but in rare cases may masquerade as a gastrointestinal or gynecologic malignancy. Case: A 49-year-old G0 presented with abdo…
2021
lab-animal
2020
OBJECTIVE: Whole-exome-sequencing (WES) studies reported c-MYC gene-amplification and HUWE1 gene deletion/mutations in a significant number of cervical-cancer-patients (CC) suggesting HUWE1/c-MYC pathway as potential therapeutic target. We …
diagnostic-accuracy
2018
INTRODUCTION: Since the majority of patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage, ovarian cancer remains the most lethal gynecologic malignancy. There is no single biomarker with the sensitivity and specificity required for effective cancer …
lab-animal
2018
Purpose: Uterine serous carcinoma (USC) is a rare and aggressive variant of endometrial cancer. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) studies have recently reported c-Myc gene amplification in a large number of USCs, suggesting c-Myc as a potential …