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 Lupine Publishers | Interventions in Gynecology and Women's Healthcare Abstract One of the most common gynecologic complaint is irregular uterine bleeding It is one of the most common Problem in the perimenopausal and postmenopausal years. It has a direct impact on woman physical, social, emotional and material quality of life. While vaginal bleeding is the sign of endometrial cancer in more than 90% of postmenopausal women which is the sixth most common malignant neoplasm in women worldwide and is the most common gynecologic malignancy in developed countries, therefore, the diagnosis of AUB needs to be undertaken seriously. This study was implemented to evaluate the efficacy of suction pipelle-which is an endometrial sampling technique- in diagnosis of endometrial lesions in cases of abnormal uterine bleeding. It was designed as a cross sectional study and included 184 patients complaining of AUB. 2 samples were taken from all candidate women one by D&C and the other was...

 Lupine Publishers | Interventions in Gynecology and Women's Healthcare Keywords: Mucinous ovarian tumor; Mural nodule; Anaplastic carcinoma; Angiosarcoma; Poorly differentiated carcinoma; Poor prognosis Introduction Mucinous tumors of the ovary account for about 15% of all ovarian tumors; 80% are benign, while only 3-4% are invasive carcinoma; the remainder are borderline tumors [1]. Rarely, mucinous tumors may exhibit mural nodules containing a carcinomatous or sarcomatous component; these mural nodules are more commonly associated with mucinous borderline tumors but can also arise within mucinous carcinoma [1, 2]. Prat and Scully first described mucinous ovarian tumors with mural nodules in a series of 7 cases in 1979; these lesions were termed mucinous tumors with sarcoma-like nodules [3,4]. However, classification of mural nodules arising in mucinous ovarian tumors remains unclear, and several authors have proposed different classification systems [5-14]. Anaplastic ca...