Prenatal Detection of a Congenital Pancreatic Cyst by Ultrasound

We present a case of a fetal pancreatic cyst, a rare disease in fetal life, detected prenatally at 30 weeks' gestation by ultrasound. Routine ultrasound examination at 30 weeks' gestation by primary obstetrician showed a cyst on the fetal abdomen. Initially, the suspected diagnosis was a mesenteric cyst. Subsequent ultrasound examination at weeks 32, 36 showed a fetal retroperitoneal cyst. A 3.6 kg female neonate was born to 23 yr old woman by spontaneous vaginal delivery at 38 weeks' gestation. The fetus underwent exploratory laparotomy. Histopathologic and immunohistochemical diagnosis revealed the cyst to be a pancreatic cyst. Surgical outcome was excellent. Thus, we report this case of a pancreatic cyst detected via prenatal ultrasonography.

Bilateral Massive Ovarian Leiomyoma in an Adolescent Female / 대한산부인과학회잡지

Ovarian leiomyoma is a very uncommon tumor that usually presents as an unilateral neoplasm typically associated with uterine leiomyoma in middle aged to postmenopuasal women. These probably originate from smooth muscle cells of the ovarian blood vessel or from the smooth muscle fibers near the attachment of the ovarian ligament. We report a case of ovarian leiomyoma, bilateral and massive in 17 year-old woman. We document the smooth muscle origin of the tumors with immunohistochemical studies that show appropriate staining with antibodies to actin, desmin, vimentin, S-100 protein.