Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

Malignant transformation is an infrequent complication of endometriosis. The ovary is the primary site in 76% of cases, and extragonadal sites are identified in 24%. Endometrioid carcinoma is the most common histologic type; sarcoma is very…

A 58-year-old postmenopausal woman with a 15-cm complex cystic right adnexal mass, uterine prolapse, and a large cystocele presented for a laparoscopy, total vaginal hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, and anterior and posterior …

A case of xanthogranulomatous salpingitis and oophoritis in a 47-year-old woman is presented. Xanthogranulomatous inflammation is an uncommon form of chronic inflammation that is destructive to affected organs; it is characterized by the pr…

The clinical and pathologic features of four cases of intussusception of the appendix are reported and the literature is reviewed. All patients had vague abdominal symptoms. The diagnosis of intussusception of the appendix was not made preo…

We report a case of hepatocellular adenomas in a 39-year-old woman who had been taking danazol for uterine fibroids. To our knowledge, this is the first case in which multiple hepatocellular adenomas were discovered after only 6 months of d…

Clinical and pathologic findings in a pregnant 15-year-old with vaginal polyposis disclosed numerous polyps throughout the vagina and portio of the cervix that disappeared spontaneously 6 weeks post partum. These polyps can be confused micr…

An adenomyoma of the papilla of Vater that caused biliary obstruction resulted in an extensive surgical resection because of the clinical and roentgenographic suspicion of carcinoma. Benign neoplasms of the papilla and extrahepatic bile duc…

A 45-year-old woman developed a grade III and stage III squamous cell carcinoma of the left ovary 12 years after a hysterectomy for treatment of endometriosis. Origin from a teratoma or a Brenner tumor was excluded. Despite extensive surger…

We report a case of Hodgkin's disease of the endometrium. The endometrial stroma is replaced by a polymorphic cellular infiltrate in which Reed-Sternberg cells are seen. The patient also has a history of stage IV-B Hodgkin's disease that wa…

We describe an 18-year-old woman with a mass in the region of the right ovary. The mass, which had a central cavity lined by endometrium and surrounded by smooth muscle, extraordinarily resembled a uterus. Review of the literature disclosed…

We studied a case of intramural müllerian adenosarcoma of the uterus in a 51-year-old woman. The tumor measured 4 cm in diameter, was located in the lateral wall of the uterine body, and was accompanied by adenomyosis. The tumor was compose…

Leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata (LPD) is an impressive clinical entity in women of reproductive age in which multiple nodules stud the pelvic and peritoneal surfaces, often mimicking disseminated carcinoma grossly. It has been assoc…

A unique, uterus-like ovarian mass with central endometriosis was studied. A 31-year-old woman with a ten-year history of endometriosis of the left ovary had surgically excised a left ovarian mass with a central cavity that was lined by end…

One patient had an extrauterine pelvic Müllerian adenosarcoma that recurred on multiple occasions and was originally diagnosed as a benign lesion. Caution is needed in the initial interpretatrion of such lesions as "adenofibromas." We have …