Adenomyomatosis of the gallbladder is a benign, mostly asymptomatic condition of an unknown aetiology. Hyperplastic changes in the gallbladder wall cause an overgrowth of the mucosa, thickening of the muscular wall, and formation of intramural diverticula or sinus tracts termed Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses. Adenomyomatosis is divided on general, segmental and localised. Ultrasound examination, computerized tomography and magnetic resonance are used in diagnostic procedure. The importance of the disease lies in the fact that it can cause recurrent right upper quadrant pain so it must be concerned in resolving pain cause. This paper was aimed at explaining the aetiology of the disease, its clinical manifestation, making diagnosis and therapy in order to make its diagnosis and treatment possible.
Splenosis should be considered as a differential diagnosis by the undertaken workup of left pulmonary nodules or masses in patients with a history of trauma.
Introduction. Cytological smear tests of the cervix are routine diagnostic methods used for detection of precancerous lesions and tumors of the cervix; they are highly sensitive and specific in the detection of precancerous squamous intraepithelial lesions. Glandular lesions are much less frequently found in the cervical smear. The most common glandular lesions detected in the cervical smear are endocervical and endometrial adenocarcinomas. Cervical metastases are rare, although there are case reports in the literature. Case Report. In this case report, we present a 64-year-old woman with an abnormal cervical smear and postmenopausal metrorrhagia. Numerous accumulations, as well as individual atypical epithelial cells, were detected in the cervical smear and a cytological diagnosis of a highgrade squamous intraepithelial lesion was made based on cytomorphological features suspicious for invasion (Bethesda Classification, 2014) so a cervical biopsy and curettage of the endocervical canal were performed. A high-grade serous adenocarcinoma was diagnosed by histopathological examination of cervical biopsy and cervical canal curettage specimens, after which a transvaginal ultrasound examination was performed, which showed tumors on both ovaries and free fluid in the abdominal cavity. The patient underwent abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Histological examination confirmed high-grade ovarian papillary serous adenocarcinoma with psammoma bodies. Conclusion. The cytological diagnostic features and criteria for serous adenocarcinoma in Papanicolaou smears are still vague and insufficiently defined in the literature, which is the reason for very common errors in the interpretation, so further research on the pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy of this tumor is of great importance.
Introduction/Objective Activation of insulin-like growth factor receptor (IGF-1R) results in cell transition from growth phase to synthesis phase of cell cycle. Breast cancer is categorized into prognostic and therapeutic subtypes based upon hormone receptor, estrogen receptor (ER), and progesterone receptor (PR) expression and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER-2) expression. The objective of this study was to examine the expression of IGF-1R in а specific subtype invasive breast cancer and its correlation with basic histopathological and immunohistochemical prognostic parameters. Methods Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor samples were obtained from 129 female patients with invasive breast cancer (I-III disease stage) with the follow-up ranging 36-108 months (average 48 months). For immunohistochemical staining, we used monoclonal antibodies for ER, PR, IGF-1R, and polyclonal antibody for HER-2. Results IGF-1R inversely correlated with tumor stage (p = 0.017), tumor grade (p = 0.001), HER-2 (p = 0.003), whereas significant positive correlation was found with multifocality/multicentricity of breast cancer (p = 0.036), ER (p = 0.001) and PR (p = 0.0001) expression. Cox-regression analysis for relapse-free survival (RFS) showed that disease stage (p = 0.039) and HER-2 (p = 0.033) were independent prognostic factors. IGF-1R did not predict clinical outcome in patients with breast cancer (p = 0.488, Kaplan-Meier test for RFS). Conclusion Patients with low stage and grade hormone-dependent breast cancer had a significantly higher IGF-1R expression than patients with triple negative or HER-2 overexpressed cancer. The present findings also highlight that IGF-1R expression in multicentric/multifocal breast cancer supports the key roles in tumor initiation.
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