Pathology

The case of a 34-year-old woman who had a radical hysterectomy for stage 1 b squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix and in whom an epithelial polyp was identified in the left fallopian tube is presented. The case is unusual in that the polyp…

Stromal endometriosis refers to the presence of endometriotic stroma without the presence of endometrial glands. We report a case in the uterine cervix in which the diagnosis of Kaposi's sarcoma was considered before being discounted on his…

A case of ovarian intravascular endometrial tissue in a 46 yr old woman with a strong family history of endometrial carcinoma and abnormal endometrial histology is presented. The diagnosis was supported by histological and immunohistochemic…

A primary tumor composed of mature adipose tissue and smooth muscle occurring in the anterior abdominal wall of a 46 yr old Filipino woman is described. The tumor was not attached to the uterus, but had an appearance similar to a uterine li…

The clinical and pathological features of 11 cases of large bowel endometriosis are reported, one of which also had lesions in the small intestine. All of the cases had rectal or rectosigmoid involvement. Altered bowel habit and pain were c…

A case of atypical polypoid adenomyoma occurring in a 40 yr-old female is reported. The lesion was composed of irregular glands lined by atypical epithelium lying in a spindle cell stroma containing smooth muscle cells. The mitotic count of…

A new mucin antigen was detected in a mucinous cystadenoma of human ovary. An antiserum produced in rabbits against the crude cyst fluid, following appropriate absorptions, showed immunoreactivity exclusively with tumour epithelium, particu…

One thousand common "epithelial" tumours of the ovary were encountered in a 25-yr study period at the King George V Memorial Hospital. These tumours were classified according to the World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) Histological Classifica…