Journal of clinical pathology

This report describes a uterine tumour exhibiting areas of both endometrial stromal and smooth muscle differentiation. There was extensive intravascular permeation within the myometrium as well as extrauterine vascular involvement. The endo…

A 57 year old woman presented complaining of increasing abdominal swelling of six months duration. A mixed solid cystic left ovarian tumour measuring 24 cm in diameter was excised. Histology showed numerous cysts lined by benign mucinous ep…

This report describes a case of macroscopically visible cystic endosalpingiosis involving the paraovarian region in a woman who had been taking tamoxifen for breast cancer. A 2.5 cm multicystic lesion was seen on the external surface of the…

A case of endometriosis presenting as a mass in the groin of a pregnant woman is described. The mass increased in size during the pregnancy and the radiological features were suspicious of malignancy. Histological examination showed atrophi…

BACKGROUND: A frozen section diagnostic service is often not directly available in small rural or mountain hospitals. In these cases, it could be possible to provide frozen section diagnosis through telepathology systems. Telepathology is b…

AIM: To examine proliferative activity using the Ki-67 protein, oestrogen receptor protein, and progesterone receptor protein expression in the rete ovarii, and to make comparisons with their expression in endometriosis. METHODS: Immunohis…

Two polypoid submucosal uterine lesions were examined histologically and immunohistochemically with monoclonal antibodies to desmin and alpha smooth muscle actin. One case comprised a leiomyoma and the other a polypoid form of adenomyosis. …

A solitary small intestinal ulcer associated with a carcinoid tumour in a nearby Meckel's diverticulum was found in a 77 year old man presenting with massive rectal bleeding. Angiography and a radioisotope study localised the bleeding to th…

AIMS: To determine the causes of ovarian granulomatous inflammation and to discuss the differential diagnoses. METHODS: The pathological features of all ovarian granulomas identified by pathology SNOMED coding in Northern Ireland over a 13…

BACKGROUND: The capacity of different tissues to respond to steroids has been evaluated mainly according to the concentrations of oestrogen (ER) and progesterone (PR) receptors, which may be assayed either in tissue homogenates or histochem…

AIM: To investigate the role of oestrogen and progesterone receptor status in uterine carcinosarcomas (mixed Müllerian tumours) to see whether the receptors were identifiable, and if so whether they were of significance clinically. METHODS…

AIMS: To evaluate the clinical usefulness of CA72-4 as a serum tumour marker for endometrial carcinoma and to investigate its immunohistochemical localisation in endometrial carcinoma cells. METHODS: Serum concentrations of CA72-4 were det…

Three cases of ceroid granulomas of the female genital system are presented, involving the cervix in two and lesions in the ovaries and bowel serosa in the other. Ceroid granulomas are unusual and interesting lesions formed when suitable su…