Pelvic neoplasm

Blohme I, Johansson S. Renal pelvic neoplasms and atypical urothelium in patients with end-stage analgesic nephropathy. Kidney Int 1981 20(5) 671-675. 

In our series of 308 patients, 158 proved to have invasive pelvic neoplasms. As described in Section 3,4,3, fewer than 1.4% of healthy adult females have serum Mn-SOD levels above 130 ng/ml. Only 7 of the 39 patients (17.9%) with benign ovarian tumors had Mn-SOD levels exceeding 130 ng/ml. In the nonovarian gynecological malignancies group, 9 out of 40 patients (22.5%) with uterine cervical cancer and 8 of 40 patients (20.0%) with endometrial cancer had Mn-SOD levels above 130 ng/ml (Table 5). 

Aggressive angiomyxoma (AAM) is a peculiar neoplasm of the pelvic and perineal soft tissues that most commonly affects women. It is composed of loosely arranged, bland spindled to stellate cells embedded in a myxoid matrix punctuated by numerous venule- and capillary-sized blood vessels reminiscent of myxoid liposarcoma (Fig. 4.8). The vascular pattern of AAM lacks the arborizing appearance that is seen in some overtly malignant myxoid tumors. Some morphologic and immunophenotypic features of aggressive AAM also are shared in part by intramuscular myxoma. 

Pisco JM, Martins JM, Correia MG (1989) Internal iliac artery embolization to control hemorrhage from pelvic neoplasms. Radiology 172 337-339... 

In most patients with carcinoma of the cervix, the uterine arteries can be selectively catheterized after puncture of the contralateral femoral arteries. This is only of value if the neoplasm is confined to the cervix and the immediately adjacent area. More frequently, intraarterial therapy is delivered to patients with Stages 3 and 4 carcinoma of the cervix in whom the disease extends to the pelvic side walls, the vagina, the bladder, and the iliac lymph nodes. This necessitates infusion of both anterior divisions and, at times, the initial branches of the posterior divisions. The distribution can be confirmed by CT angiography and radionuclide studies. Because the flow rate used in the radionuclide flow study is similar to the chemotherapy infusion rate, the radionuclide flow study... 

Keller FS, Rosch J, Bird CB (1983) Percutaneous emholiza-tion of hony pelvic neoplasms with tissue adhesive. Radiology 147 21-27... 

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