Recent evidence indicates that boron and borates may have anticarcinogenic properties. In this study, we have investigated the incidence of adverse cytological findings in cervical smears and the micronucleus (MN) frequency in women living in boron-rich and boron-poor regions. Cervical smears were prepared from 1059 women with low socioeconomic status; 472 of the women lived in relatively boronrich rural areas, while 587 lived in relatively boron-poor regions. The average and standard deviation values for the age of the women screened with the cervical Pap smear test were 41.55 6 8.38. The mean dietary intake of boron was 8.41 mg/day for women from the boron-rich regions, and 1.26 mg/day for women living in the boron-poor regions (P < 0.0001). Women from the boron-rich regions had no cytopathological indications of cervical cancer, while there were cytopathological findings for 15 women from the boronpoor areas ( 2 ¼ 10.473, P < 0.05). Sixty women, 30 from each region, were chosen for evaluating MN frequencies in exfoliated buccal cells. MN frequencies for women from the boron-rich and boron-poor regions were not significantly different (t ¼ À0.294, P > 0.05). Also, there were no significant correlations between age and MN frequency for women from both the boron-rich (r ¼ 0.133, P ¼ 0.48, P > 0.05) and boron-poor (r ¼ À0.033, P ¼ 0.861, P > 0.05) regions. The results suggest that ingestion of boron in the drinking water decreases the incidence of cervical cancer-related histopathological findings. There was no correlation between the pathological findings from the cervical smears and buccal cell MN frequency suggesting that the two study populations were exposed equally to gentotoxic agents. Nonetheless, cervical cancer-related histopathological findings should be validated by other researchers. # 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Environ Toxicol 22: 17-25, 2007.

HighlightsEctopic splenic tissue can be either congenital (accessory spleen) or acquired (splenosis).Accessory spleen (AS) is commonly located near the spleen’s hilum and in the pancreas tail.Pelvic AS is a very rare entity.AS is generally determined incidentally during radiological investigation or surgery.Pelvic AS may be considered in differential diagnosis of adnexal masses.

Cystic echinococcosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus is still an important health problem in endemic areas. Cystic echinococcosis may involve different organs or areas with the most common sites being the liver and the lungs. Pelvic involvement has previously been reported and was mainly accepted as secondary to cystic echinococcosis in other organs, isolated pelvic involvement is very rare. In this case report, we aimed to present the case with pelvic cystic mass that was finally diagnosed with isolated pelvic cystic echinococcosis in and after the operation, and we would like to draw attention to include "cystic echinococcosis" in the differential diagnosis of pelvic masses.

ÖZETAdenomyozis, endometrial gland ve stroma yapısının myometriumda bulunması halidir. Lokalize formuna adenomyom denilir ve adenomyomlar leiomyomu taklit eder. Ekstrauterin adenomyom literatürde vaka sunumları olarak yer alan ve oldukça nadir görülen bir antitedir. Patolojilerinde endometrial mukoza ile döşeli santral bir kavite ve çevresinde myometrium dokusundan kalın bir duvar yapısı ile uterus benzeri kitle görünümü vardır. Ekstrauterin adenomyomlar, over, broad ligament, uterosakral ligamant ya da ekstrapelvik lokalizasyonlu olabilirler. Etyopatojenezinden müllerian kanal kapanma defekti ve subçölomik mezanşimal transformasyon sorumlu tutulmaktadır. Bu yazıda, 37 yaşında primer infertil hastada sol adneksiyal kitle nedeniyle yapılan laparoskopi sırasında ligamantum latum yaprakları arasında tespit edilen ve histopatolojik olarak ekstrauterin adenomyom tanısı alan olgu tartışılmıştır. Ayırıcı tanıda endometrioma, leiomyomatozis peritonealis, leiomyomlar, maliniteler yer almalıdır. Nadir görülse de adneksiyal kitlelerin ayırıcı tanısında ekstrauterin adenomyomlar akla gelmelidir.Anahtar Kelimeler: Adenomyozis, broad ligament, mezanşimal transformasyon. SUMMARYAdenomyosis is the presence of endometrial glands and stroma within the endometrium. Its localised form is called adenomyoma and adenomyomas mimic leiomyomas. An extrauterine adenomyoma is an extremely rare entity and take a place in the literature as case reports. Uterus like masses with thick muscle wall and endometrium-lined central cavity are seen in their pathology. Extrauterin adenomyomas can be located in ovary, broad ligament, uterosacral ligament or extrapelvic localisation. Müllerian duct fusion defect and subcoelomic mesenchyme transformation are two possible theory for etiopathogenesis of extrauterine adenomyoma. Herein, we discussed a patient 37 years old with primary infertility which was operated for left adnexial mass and detected intraligamentary mass during laparoscopy. The diagnosis was confirmed as extrauterine adenomyoma with histopathological examination. Differantial diagnosis should be done with endometrioma, leiomyomatosis peritonealis, leiomyomas and malignancies. Althought it is an extremely rare entity, extrauterine adenomyomas should be included in differential diagnosis of adnexal masses.

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