Primary malignant lesions of the vagina are uncommon and vaginal sarcomas are even more rare. leiomyosarcomas are tumors that originate from smooth muscle. We describe a rare case of myxoid leiomyosarcoma of the vagina with initial proposal a surgical treatment. A 31-year-old woman, with an active sex life, presented a vaginal mass, whose histopathological examination revealed myxoid leiomyosarcoma in the vagin...
Objective: To analyze interobserver variability in the histopathological diagnosis of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD). Methodology: Fifty cases of GTD were randomly selected from the Department of Pathology of the Federal University of Ceará, classified in the original report as 31 complete moles, 15 partial moles and 4 non classified. A single slide from each case was evaluated by a resident physician ...
Introduction: Gestational trophoblastic disease (DTG) comprises a heterogeneous group of cell proliferation originating from the trophoblastic epithelium. It is divided into complete, partial, and gestational trophoblastic neoplasms. The hydatidiform mole occurs around 1:200-400 gestations in Brazil. Objective: To emphasize the clinical factors related to the histopathological findings of GFR among women from t...
Objective To evaluate the diagnostic utility of the p16ink4a protein expression as a marker for adenocarcinoma of the cervix. Methods In a cross-sectional study, p16ink4a expression was evaluated in 30 cervical biopsies from patients diagnosed with invasive adenocarcinoma from 2 reference clinics in Brazil, and compared with 18 biopsies of endocervical polyps (control cases). The performance of the tests for p1...
Objective: to analyze the relation of anatomopathological features and axillary involvement in cases of invasive ductal carcinoma. Methods: this is a cross-sectional study of 220 breast cancer patients submitted to radical mastectomy or quadrantectomy with axilar emptying, from the Mastology Service of the Assis Chateaubriand Maternity School, Ceará, Brazil. We submitted the tumors to histological processing an...
Objective: To establish the histological grade of the axillary metastases in invasive ductal breast cancer cases and to compare it with the findings from the primary tumor. Methods: Cross-sectional study involving 69 cases of invasive ductal breast cancer from the mastology service of Assis Chateaubriand Maternity School, Ceará, Brazil, and their respective axillary metastases. The breast primary tumors and met...