Annals of diagnostic pathology

This study aimed to evaluate the clinicopathological features of ovarian seromucinous borderline tumors (SMBTs) and mucinous borderline tumors (MBTs) and to establish a diagnostic approach using immunohistochemistry (IHC) and Alcian Blue-Pe…

OBJECTIVES: Cervical adenocarcinoma has been increasing in frequency, particularly among young women. Its diagnosis still presents many challenges. In addition to the difficulty in accessing the lesion, the lack of well-established criteria…

BACKGROUND: Focal liver lesions with spindle cell morphology are rare in the daily practice of pathology. The differential diagnosis is broad, including both tumors and tumor-like lesions. Initial radiologic assessment is sometimes inaccura…

The gold standard for diagnosing endometriosis is by laparoscopic visual demonstration of ectopic endometrial lesions outside the uterus, preferably verified by biopsy and microscopical examination. Molecular markers to facilitate the micro…

It has been suggested that impaired venous drainage and endometrial vascular ectasia (EMVE), secondary to increased intramural pressure, explains abnormal bleeding in fibroid uteri. Striking EMVE with extravasated red blood cells (ecchymosi…

BackgroundEndometriosis refers to the presence of ectopic endometrial tissue outside the uterus, that may result in infertility or recurrent implantation failure.AimsWe aimed to document the number of histopathologically confirmed cases of …

Management of malignant urothelial tumors is often associated with extended costly treatments, some with significant morbidity. Advanced tumors are treated with radical cystectomy with neoadjuvant or adjuvant radiation or chemotherapy. Over…

BACKGROUND: Seromucinous ovarian tumors are rare and not adequately described in the literature and this is especially true for seromucinous carcinomas. AIM OF THE STUDY: To describe histological and clinical features of these tumors in co…

Thoracic endometriosis is defined as the ectopic presence of endometrial glands and stroma in lung or pleura and constitutes an uncommon cause of spontaneous pneumothorax in nonsmoker women in childbearing age. From 2000 to 2014, 18 (7.3%) …

We aimed to investigate the prevalence and spectrum of unusual benign neoplasms and tumor-like lesions presenting as vulvar polyps and papules, to study their clinical, pathologic, hormonal, and developmental features and whether they have …

We describe 2 cases of endobronchial pulmonary carcinoid tumor with superimposed Aspergillus colonization. The Aspergillus hyphae were associated with fibrin, ulcer debris, and granulomatous inflammation in part masking the carcinoid tumor.…

We encountered 2 unusual cases of polypoid endometriosis presenting as unilateral ovarian masses. The first was benign and was found in a 57-year-old postmenopausal patient; the second case gave rise to well-differentiated endometrioid carc…

We present a 58-year-old woman with primary squamous carcinoma of the ovary likely arising from a monodermal cystic mucinous teratoma. Noninvolved ovary showed no Brenner tumor, endometriosis, transitional carcinoma, endometrioid adenocarci…

Carcinomas of müllerian origin involving colorectum in women with no concurrent or history of gynecologic malignancies are diagnostically challenging, and its histogenetic origin is uncertain. We reviewed 13 cases of carcinoma of müllerian …

There is a suggested pathogenetic role of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) in endometriosis via angiogenesis and proproliferative mechanisms. The aim of the study was to investigate the immunohistochemical COX-2 expression in different anatomical s…

Endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS) is a rare mesenchymal neoplasm of the uterus, which is predominantly composed of endometrial stromal cells. When this feature is encountered in the extragenital area, the diagnosis is sometimes difficult es…

Adenomyosis is commonly seen in association with endometrial adenocarcinoma where it may or may not be involved by malignancy. This study of grade 1 endometrioid adenocarcinoma investigates whether patients with cancer-positive adenomyosis …

Xanthogranulomatous salpingitis is an unusual inflammatory lesion of the fallopian tube, characterized by accumulation of foamy macrophages in the wall of the fallopian tube along with other chronic inflammatory cells. Only a few cases of x…

Endometrial stromal sarcoma is a rare neoplasm of the uterus. Extrauterine locations of this neoplasm, excluding metastases or local extension, are even more unusual and are usually associated with the presence of endometriosis. The authors…

The clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical findings of an unusual case of ovarian yolk sac tumor associated with endometrioid carcinoma and mucinous cystadenoma of the ovary are reported. The tumor was detected in a 51-year-old postmenop…

Biopsies from the vicinity of the esophagogastric junction occasionally show foci of intestinal metaplasia. Whether these biopsies represent Barrett's esophagus in all cases is controversial and of clinical importance because patients with …

A case of endometrioid carcinoma arising in pericecal endometriosis that clinically and radiologically mimicked Crohn's disease is presented. After developing several complications of steroid therapy for presumed Crohn's disease, a 48-year-…

Atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance (AGUS) is a diagnostic category of the Bethesda system encompassing glandular-type cells that show either endometrial or endocervical differentiation and display greater atypia than expe…