Use of segmental colorectal lavage cytology during surveillance colonoscopy for detecting dysplastic and cancer cells in patients with ulcerative colitis.

Purpose: To examine whether segmental colorectal lavage cytology (CRLC) during surveillance colonoscopy was useful for detecting dysplastic and cancer cells in ulcerative colitis (UC) patients.

Methods: We examined whether CRLC can detect dysplastic and cancer cells in total colectomy materials of 39 UC patients. After washing the luminal surface of dissected colorectal tissues with saline, the fluid was collected.

Expression of p16 in nodular fasciitis: an implication for self-limited and inflammatory nature of the lesion.

Nodular fasciitis (NF) is a self-limited tumorous lesion occurring in the upper as well as lower extremities. NF is composed of a proliferation of "primary culture"-like myofibroblastic cells with nuclear atypia and large nucleoli, thus mimicking sarcoma. NF harbors a promoter-swapping fusion gene containing the entire coding region of gene.

Challenges in Managing Patients with Hereditary Cancer at Gynecological Services.

Aim: To reveal current problems and challenges faced by our gynecologic services department in managing patients with hereditary cancers.

Methods: We collected clinical data of patients with hereditary cancers, identified via genetic testing (or clinically diagnosed in cases of Cowden syndrome or Peutz-Jeghers syndrome), and treated in our gynecological department from 2012 to 2018.

Results: Fifteen patients had hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC), 6 had Lynch syndrome, 2 had Cowden syndrome, and 2 had Peutz-Jeghers syndrome.

Pazopanib treatment of a platinum-resistant recurrence of a high-grade Sertoli cell tumor and assessment of the treatment response by FDG-PET/CT: A case report.

Ovarian Sertoli cell tumors (SCTs) are rare sex cord tumors (Oliva et al., 2005). The standard treatment for high-grade SCTs is surgery followed by platinum-based chemotherapy.