Human pathology

Under the influence of progesterone the unique intranuclear structure known as the nucleolar canalicular structure (NCS) develops in the human endometrium. This organelle was not described previously outside the uterus. In this report the c…

Twenty-one of 34 simultaneous cancers involving the endometrium and ovary were classified as endometrial primary tumors with ovarian metastases. The criteria for this classification were either a multinodular ovarian pattern (major criterio…

The authors identified a degenerated, focally calcified cestode larva (cysticercus) in the fallopian tube of a 50-year-old woman with endometriosis. The physiologic reaction to the larva was minimal, with some focal granulomatous salpingiti…

A case of endometrioid carcinoma arising from endometriosis of the sigmoid colon is reported. The histogenesis of the endometriosis in this patient was thought to be artificial secondary implantation of the endometrial tissue into the invad…

Changes in the pattern of sulfomucin and sialomucin secretion and height of large bowel mucosa have been described adjacent to primary colonic adenocarcinomas and adenomas, and called "transitional" mucosa. These changes were initially thou…

Combined regimen contraceptive steroids produce precocious endometrial secretion, followed by involution leading to a suppressed endometrium with small tubular glands and failure of spiral arterioles to develop; decidua-like stromal changes…

A mucocele of the appendix secondary to obstruction by endometriosis is reported and the relevant literature reviewed. The theories of the pathogenesis of appendiceal mucocele are reviewed and discussed. To our knowledge, no similar, well d…