ABSTRACT
This is a report of a case of endometrioma of the abdominal wall in a 34-year-old woman who had a two-year history of lower abdominal pain. The physical examination revealed an ill defined mass with tenderness. Computed tomography showed an enhancing isodense mass at the midline-right rectus abdominis muscle. The patient was treated with a mesh grafting repair following a wide radical resection with a 1 cm margin. There were no postoperative complications. The histological examination confirmed endometriosis. The patient is now on regular follow-up and doing well without any recurrence, five months after her operation.
ABSTRACT
Peripheral T-cell proliferative disease is a group of systemic diseases that exhibit considerable heterogeneity in clinical findings, morphologic pattern, immunology, and prognosis. The morphology of neoplastic T-cells varies from mature small lymphocytes to malignant lymphoid cells. Latent Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection of the peripheral T-cells is found in majority of cases. Inflammatory cytokines (such as tumor necrosis factor-α), which are secreted from EBV-infected T cell and/or activated macrophages, are related to hemophagocytosis, severity of disease and outcome of patients.