International journal of clinical and experimental pathology

ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate the impact of P2RX5 on the clinical pathological characteristics and prognosis of endometrial carcinoma, and to explore its potential underlying mechanisms.MethodsThe clinical samples, including 150 s…

Female adnexal tumor of probable Wolffian origin (FATWO) is a rare gynecologic tumor. We describe a case of 53-year-old female patient in whom an adnexal mass was found. Microscopic examination revealed that the tumor arose in the adnexal s…

Yang-deficiency constitution (YADC) is linked to a higher vulnerability to various diseases, such as cold coagulation and blood stasis (CCBS) syndrome and infertility. Endometrial hyperplastic processes (EHPs) are a leading cause of inferti…

OBJECTIVES: How chronic pelvic inflammatory disease (CPID), the most common cause of infertility, affects metabolic profiles of follicular fluid (FF) remains unknown. This study aimed to identify candidate biomarkers in FF of infertile wome…

BackgroundActinomycosis is an actinomycete infection, a rare zoonotic disease characterized by chronic suppurative inflammation and granulomatous inflammation. When injury occurs to the mucosa where parasites are present, actinomycetes can …

We report a case of primary ovarian Burkitt lymphoma that occurred in a 25-year-old woman. The patient complained of a mass in the right ovary discerned by physical examination 2 months prior. Ultrasound examination indicated that the right…

Intravascular leiomyomatosis is a rare disease characterized by extension of benign smooth muscle proliferation into uterine and pelvic vessels. The involved vessels are almost always veins and rarely lymphatics. Intraarterial growth has no…

Cholesterol granuloma is a consequence of a chronic inflammatory reaction with accumulation of cholesterol crystals in the tissue. Ovarian cholesterol granuloma is rarely reported in the literature and can be misdiagnosed as ovarian cancer …

The present work aimed to explore the prognostic values of lncRNA TC0101441 (TC0101441) in patients with gastric cancer (GC). The expression of TC0101441 in a total of 159 GC specimens and matched normal specimens was detected by quantitati…

Borderline ovarian tumors (BOTs) are rare among children and adolescents. This study was to probe into the clinicopathologic characteristics and prognosis in children and adolescents with BOT. A retrospective investigation was performed on …

This article reports the pathologic features and malignant biological behavior of a perivascular epithelioid cell neoplasm (PEComa) with the clinical manifestation being endometrial polyps. The case was cured with curettage in a local hospi…

ObjectiveTo explore the expression and clinical significance of Gal-3 and NFκB pathway related factors in epithelial ovarian carcinoma cells.Methods99 histologic specimens of epithelial ovarian cancer and 20 normal ovarian histologic specim…

To investigate the expression and clinical significance of nucleoside diphosphate kinase A (nm23-H1), p53, and integrin β1 in endometriosis, normal and ectopic endometrial tissues were collected and the levels of nm23-H1, p53, and integrin …

Lipoleiomyoma is a rare, benign leiomyoma variant. It is relatively common in the uterine area of the female reproductive system but rare in other areas and has not been reported in the fallopian tubes. In this paper, we report a perimenopa…

Ovarian cancer (OC) is most common type of gynecologic cancer and is frequently lethal. It is important to determine the pathologic mechanisms underlying OC. ZNF93 is a member of the zinc finger protein family. Abnormal expression of ZNF93 …

Yolk sac tumors (YSTs) are the second most common germ cell malignancy of the ovaries, generally presenting in children and young women. However, they rarely occur in the fallopian tubes of postmenopausal patients. The current rare case is …

OBJECTIVE: The present study was designed to investigate the expression of miR-9-5p and to study the effect of miR-9-5p expression on the invasion and migration of endometrial stromal cells in endometriosis patients. METHODS: We recruited 1…

Ossification in non-teratomatous ovaries is extremely rare. This phenomenon may occur in various non-neoplastic or neoplastic ovarian diseases. A 34-year-old woman presented with lower abdominal pain of about 3 months. Transvaginal ultrason…

We report a rare case of a 40 years old woman with primary vaginal clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA) accompanied by Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome (HWWS) and without any prenatal diethylstilbestrol exposure. Pathological results indicated …

BackgroundTo investigate the clinicopathologic features, differential diagnosis, and factors associated with recurrence in patients with smooth muscle tumors of uncertain malignant potential (STUMP).MethodsThe clinical and pathologic data o…

Located in the uterine cervix, cervical invasive stratified mucin-producing carcinoma (i-SMILE) is a rare, recently-identified tumor about which little is known. In extremely rare cases, other kinds of invasive carcinoma can accompany i-SMI…

OBJECTIVE: in adenomyosis tissues, and to explore their roles in the incidence and development of adenomyosis-induced dysmenorrhea. METHODS: was measured. RESULTS: = 0.007). CONCLUSION: which is proportional to the degree of pain.

Uterine cervical cancer (UCC) causes more than one quarter of a million deaths per year in many developing countries. Nearly all cases of cervical cancer result from infection with the human papillomavirus. After high-risk HPV infection, mo…

BackgroundYolk sac tumors (YSTs) are the second most common germ cell malignancy of the ovaries generally present in children and young women. YSTs arising in combination with epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC) in older women are rarely rep…

Interleukin-1 (IL-1) gene is known to be implicated in tuberculosis (TB). The present case-control study was designed to investigate whether IL-1 polymorphisms associated with TB susceptibility in a Chinese Tibetan cohort. 300 Tibetan tuber…