ABSTRACT
A 10-year study of all cervical biopsies and hysterectomy specimens received in the Department of Pathology; Victoria Hospital was carried out. Representative punch biopsies of cervix; either colposcope guided; or taken from non-staining areas of cervix following application of Schiller's iodine paint; and fixed in 10 per cent formal saline in the theatre were received in the pathology department. During the ten year period (1983-1992); 175 cases of cervical cancer were detected. Of these; 66 cases were at the CIN 3 stage; 28 were CIN 3 with microinvasion; 69 cases showed frank infiltrating squamos cell carcinoma; 11 exhibited adenocarcinoma and 1 had adenosquamous features
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Adenocarcinoma , Biopsy/methods , Hysterectomy/methods , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/trendsABSTRACT
Oral and oropharyngeal carcinoma happens to be one of the commonest cancerous lesions in Seychelles. According to cancer registry statistics; of 621 cases of cancer from 1983 to 1991; oral and oropharyngeal carcinoma account for 9.98 per cent of all cases. An attempt has been made to analyse the age and sex of patients; the location and morphology of the carcinomas; and the prognosis; so as to present the clinicopathological features of oral and oropharyngeal carcinoma in Seychelles; with possible etiological factors
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Carcinoma , Mouth Neoplasms , Pharyngeal Neoplasms/complications , Pharyngeal Neoplasms/diagnosis , Pharyngeal Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging , Pharyngeal Neoplasms/etiology , Pharyngeal Neoplasms/pathology , Pharyngeal Neoplasms/surgeryABSTRACT
Pseudosarcomatous fasciitis was reported by Knowaler et al in 1955. It is a benign and quasi-neoplastic proliferation of fibroblasts; which is often mistaken for a sarcoma because of its rapid growth; rich cellularity and mitotic activity. It is one of the more common soft tissue lesions and exceeds in frequency other tumor or tumor-like lesions of fibrous tissue. This attested to by the more than 1000 cases that were reviewed at the American Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in a 20 year period. The case of pseudosarcoma occuring in a patient with marfan's syndrome in Seychelles is reported
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Fasciitis , Fibroblast Growth Factors , Marfan Syndrome , SarcomaABSTRACT
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of both cancerous and non-cancerous lesions of the breast seen by doctors in Seychelles. The cancer registry held by the department of pathology reveals that 3 cases of breast cancer were reported in 1989; 4 in 1990; 6 in 1991 and 11 in 1992. Department of pathology records also reveal that 36 cases of non-cancerous breast lesions were reported in 1989; 30 in 1990; 48 in 1991 and 49 in 1992. These increases call for the development of a protocol for the management of all the palpable; nodular swellings of the breast; irrespective of marital status; age; parity and use of oral contraceptives