Joseph W. Carlson

BackgroundSomatically derived ovarian yolk sac tumors (SD-YSTs) in postmenopausal women are rare and typically present with advanced-stage disease, often carrying a poor prognosis.CaseWe describe a 74-year-old woman with stage IIIB SD-YST w…

OBJECTIVES: To describe sonographic features of the microcystic elongated and fragmented (MELF) pattern of myometrial invasion (MI) using the International Endometrial Tumor Analysis (IETA) criteria; to assess the effect of the MELF pattern…

Bowels are the most common site of extrapelvic endometriosis. Still, colonic endometriosis often presents a diagnostic challenge, mimicking a broad spectrum of diseases including primary colonic malignancy. For women of fertile age, the con…

To describe sonographic features of the microcystic elongated and fragmented (MELF) pattern of myometrial invasion (MI) using the International Endometrial Tumor Analysis (IETA) criteria; to assess the effect of the MELF pattern on preopera…

Uterine perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (PEComas) are rare neoplasms that may show overlapping morphology and immunohistochemistry with uterine smooth muscle tumors. In this study, we evaluated the morphologic, immunohistochemical, and…

In the past 50 years, the concept of serous ovarian cancer has been progressively refined, with the distinction of the borderline serous tumour, identification of a smaller subset of well-differentiated serous malignancies and, recently, cl…

PurposeA diagnosis of primary peritoneal serous carcinoma (PPSC) requires exclusion of a source in other reproductive organs. Serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma (STIC; stage 0) has been described in asymptomatic women with BRCA mutation…