Radical hysterectomy in the elderlyAzamsadat Mousavi
Gynecologic Oncology Department, Vali e Asr Hospital, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Keshavarz Blvd, Tehran 14914, Iran
World J Surg Oncol 6:38. 2008
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- Ovarian carcinoma associated with pregnancy: a clinicopathologic analysis of 23 cases and review of the literature
Nadereh Behtash
Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship from Tehran University Of Medical Science, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science, Shahid Sadoughi Hospital, Yazd, Iran
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 8:3. 2008
..The aim of this study was to analyze and describe cases of ovarian cancer in pregnant women treated at our center and to review the literature concerned, and to discuss the rationale for therapy...
Fertility sparing in young women with ovarian tumorsF Ghaemmaghami
Department of Gynecology Oncology, Vali e Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Clin Exp Obstet Gynecol 37:290-4. 2010
..Thus this approach in ovarian tumor cases has been carried out. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical outcome and pregnancies in women who suffered from ovarian tumor and underwent conservative treatment...
Clinical assessment, gross examination, frozen section of ovarian masses: do patients benefit?Fatemah Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology Oncology Department of Vali e Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Keshavarz Blvd, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Vali e Asr Hospital Reproductive Health Research Centre, Tehran, Iran
Arch Gynecol Obstet 278:209-13. 2008
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- Giant condyloma accuminatum mimicking vulvar verrucous carcinoma
F Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology Oncology Department, 2nd Floor, Vali-e-Asr Hospital, Emam Khomeini Complex Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Keshavarz Blvd, Tehran 14914, Iran
Eur J Surg Oncol 33:668-9. 2007
- Nondysgerminomatous ovarian tumors: clinical characteristics, treatment, and outcome. A case-controlled study
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology Oncology Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Vali e Asr Hospital, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran 14194, Iran
Int J Surg 6:382-6. 2008
..The aim of this study is to assess the response of patients with nondysgerminomatous ovarian germ-cell tumors (NDOGCT) to platinum-based chemotherapy and to determine association of prognostic factors to relapse of disease...
- Lower genital tract rhabdomyosarcoma: case series and literature review
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Gynecologic Oncology Department, Vali e Asr Hospital, Medical Sciences University of Tehran, Imam Khomeini Oncology Complex, Tehran 14194, Iran
Arch Gynecol Obstet 278:65-9. 2008
..Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) of the lower genital tract is a rare tumor. It tends to occur in childhood in the vagina and in rare cases, RMS can originate in the uterine cervix, with a peak incidence in the 2nd decade...
- Major labiaectomy as surgical management of vulvar lymphangioma circumscriptum: three cases and a review of the literature
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Gynecologic Oncology Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Vali e Asr Hospital, Imam Khomeini Complex, Tehran 14194, Iran
Arch Gynecol Obstet 278:57-60. 2008
..Lymphangiomas of the vulva are rare. Thirteen cases of the congenital and 24 cases of acquired form have been reported in the literature presently...
- Surgical management of primary vulvar lymphangioma circumscriptum and postradiation: case series and review of literature
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Vali Asr Hospital, Tehran, Iran
J Minim Invasive Gynecol 15:205-8. 2008
..Our data suggest major labiaectomy is more successful than methods such as lymphovenous anastomoses, lymph angioplasties, and laser therapy. A single operation may provide benefit for a long period...
- Assessment of the response to chemotherapy in gestational trophoblastic neoplasia with vaginal metastases
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology Oncology Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Arch Gynecol Obstet 278:315-8. 2008
..There have been just a few studies about treatment of GTN + VM...
- Good fetal outcome of pregnancies with gynecologic cancer conditions: cases and literature review
F Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology Oncology Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Int J Gynecol Cancer 16:225-30. 2006
..Vulvar and ovarian cancer is a rare finding in pregnancy. Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment offer the best prognosis. Aggressive postoperative chemotherapy also continues to better the outcome...
- Evaluation and management of brain metastatic patients with high-risk gestational trophoblastic tumors
F Ghaemmaghami
Department of Gynecology and Oncology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Int J Gynecol Cancer 14:966-71. 2004
..It seems that multi-agent chemotherapy (EMA-EP) concurrently with whole brain irradiation results in acceptable survival rates in GTT patients with brain metastases...
- Clinical outcome of Iranian patients with advanced ovarian cancer with neoadjuvant chemotherapy versus primary debulking surgery
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Gynecologic Oncology Department, Vali e Asr Hospital, Imam Khomeini Oncology Complex, Medical Sciences Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 9:719-24. 2008
..The aim of this study is to evaluate the results of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) and the impact of interval debulking surgery (IDS) on clinical outcomes of patients with advanced-stage ovarian cancer...
- Assessment of gross examination and frozen section of uterine specimen in endometrial cancer patients
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology Oncology Department, Vali e Asr Hospital, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Keshavarz Blvd, Tehran, Iran
Arch Gynecol Obstet 282:685-9. 2010
..The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy and validity of frozen section diagnosis and gross examination of uterine specimen compared to the final histological results in patients with endometrial cancer...
- Giant vulvar lymphangioma circumscriptum mimicking vulvar tumor: a case report and literature review
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran
J Low Genit Tract Dis 11:281-3. 2007
..Lymphangioma circumscriptum (LC) is a benign dilation of lymph channels localized to the skin and subcutaneous tissues. Primary vulvar involvement is very rare, with only 34 cases reported...
- Centralization of ovarian cancer surgery: do patients benefit?
F Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology Oncology Department, Vali e Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Eur J Gynaecol Oncol 31:429-33. 2010
..The aim of the study was to compare the effect of surgery in patients with ovarian cancer by gynecologist-oncologists and general gynecologists on overall survival...
- EMA-EP regimen, as firstline multiple agent chemotherapy in high-risk GTT patients (stage II-IV)
F Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology Oncology Department, Vali e Asr Reproductive Health Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Keshavarz Boulevard, Tehran 14194, Iran
Int J Gynecol Cancer 14:360-5. 2004
..In current study, EMA-EP regimen in patients with high-risk metastatic GTN patients (with or without brain metastasis) lead to remission in all patients who completed the treatment courses...
- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radical surgery compared to radical surgery alone in bulky stage IB-IIA cervical cancer
N Behtash
Gynecology Oncology Department, Vali Asr Hospital, Keshavarz Blvd, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14194, Iran
Eur J Surg Oncol 32:1226-30. 2006
..The aim of this study was evaluation of the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) and radical hysterectomy on long-term survival in stage IB-IIA locally advanced cervical cancer as compared with radical surgery alone...
- Uterine sarcoma: clinicopathological characteristics, treatment and outcome in Iran
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Gynecologic Oncology Department, Vali e Asr Hospital, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 9:421-6. 2008
..The aim of this study was to investigate clinical and histopathological characteristics together with treatment and outcome of Iranian patients with uterine sarcomas...
- Multiple, disseminated cutaneous metastases of vulvar squamous cell carcinoma
F Ghaemmaghami
Department of Gynecology Oncology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Vali e Asr Hospital, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Keshavarz Boulevard, Tehran 14194, Iran
Int J Gynecol Cancer 14:384-7. 2004
..For her palliation, some chemotherapy drugs were prescribed. She is on her sixth chemotherapy cycle, but these skin lesions are somewhat a preterminal event and there is no well-established treatment for this phase of disease...
- Borderline ovarian tumours: clinical analysis of 38 cases
N Behtash
Department of Gynecology and Oncology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
J Obstet Gynaecol 24:157-60. 2004
..Most common histological type was serous, and 5 of the recurrences of (6 patients) were initially diagnosed at stage I, and had been treated with conservative surgery with no adjuvant therapy...
- Preservation of pregnancy in a patient with advanced ovarian cancer at 20 weeks of gestation: case report and literature review
M Modares Gilani
Department of Gynecology Oncology, Vali Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Int J Gynecol Cancer 17:1140-3. 2007
..Combination chemotherapy during pregnancy with preservation of the fetus could be considered, and should be discussed with caution in case of epithelial ovarian cancer diagnosed during the second trimester of the pregnancy...
- Is normal beta-hCG regression curve helpful in the diagnosis of persistent trophoblastic disease?
N Behtash
Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Vali e Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Int J Gynecol Cancer 14:980-3. 2004
..The aim of this study was to evaluate the probable usefulness of normal beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-hCG) regression curve in the diagnosis of persistent trophoblastic disease (PTD)...
- Successful treatment of a patient with gestational trophoblastic neoplasm metastatic to the colon
F Ghaemmaghami
Department of Gynecology Oncology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
J Obstet Gynaecol 25:735-7. 2005
- First-line chemotherapy with 5-FU and platinum for advanced and recurrent cancer of the cervix: a phase II study
F Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology and Obstetrics Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
J Obstet Gynaecol 23:422-5. 2003
..First-line chemotherapy with platinum and 5-FU for advanced and recurrent cervical cancer is promising and deserves consideration for a larger phase III trial...
- Successful treatment of two patients with gestational trophoblastic neoplasm presenting with emergent neurologic symptoms
F Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology Oncology Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Int J Gynecol Cancer 16:937-40. 2006
..It seems that multiagent chemotherapy in conjunction with whole-brain irradiation results in acceptable survival rate in brain metastatic GTN patients. Craniotomy is often necessary in fulminant cases...
- Intraoperative frozen sections for assessment of female cancers
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology Oncology Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 8:635-9. 2007
..A good communication established between clinicians and pathologists is necessary to obtain more accurate results and to minimize the number of deferred cases...
- Management of patients with metastatic gestational trophoblastic tumor
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology Oncology Department, Vali e Asr Hospital, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran 14194, Iran
Gynecol Oncol 94:187-90. 2004
..This study was designed to analyze the results of treatment on patients with metastatic gestational trophoblastic tumor (metastatic GTT)...
- Patients with presenting unusual manifestations with gestational trophoblastic neoplasm: case series and review of literatures
Tahereh Ashraf-Ganjooei
Obstetric and Gynecology Department, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Afzali poor Hospital, Imam Highway, Kerman, Iran
Arch Gynecol Obstet 277:465-70. 2008
..We reported two cases of metastatic gestational trophoblastic neoplasms with bizarre pulmonary symptoms, one patient with small bowel metastasis, and two patients with brain metastasis presenting with unusual manifestations...
- Immediate grafting of transected obturator nerve during radical hysterectomy
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology Oncology Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Int J Surg 7:168-9. 2009
..Irreversible damage of this nerve causes thigh paresthesia and claudication. Intraoperative repair may be done by end to end anastomosis or grafting when achieving tension-free anastomosis is not possible...
- A prospective study to evaluate the correlation between Reid colposcopic index impression and biopsy histology
Azam Sadat Mousavi
Department of Gynecology Oncology, Vali e Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
J Low Genit Tract Dis 11:147-50. 2007
..To determine the strength of correlation between colposcopic impression using Reid index and biopsy histology...
- Cutaneous metastasis from carcinoma of the cervix at the drain site
Nadereh Behtash
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 14194, Iran
Gynecol Oncol 85:209-11. 2002
..Although carcinoma of the cervix is the second to the fourth most common malignancy in women, cutaneous involvement originating from cervical cancer is particularly unusual, even in the terminal stage of the disease...
- Patient delay in women presenting with advanced breast cancer: an Iranian study
I Harirchi
Cancer Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Public Health 119:885-91. 2005
..Due to the lack of systematic screening programmes for early detection of breast cancer in Iran and the predominance of advanced cases, we aimed to study the extent and determinants of patient delay in women with advanced breast cancer...
- Visual inspection with acetic acid as a feasible screening test for cervical neoplasia in Iran
F Ghaemmaghami
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Int J Gynecol Cancer 14:465-9. 2004
..In conclusion, the sensitivity and specificity of VIA is high and comparable with that of cytology. Hence, VIA can be undertaken as a feasible method of screening in cervical cancer in countries where access to cytopathology is limited...
- Results of cervical cone excision biopsy in iran
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Gynecologic Oncology Department, Vali e Asr Hospital, Imam Khomeini Oncology Complex, Tehran, Iran ftghaemmagh yahoo com
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 9:45-7. 2008
..The prevalence of cervical cancer in a developing country, and diagnostic therapeutic value of knife conization for CIN, indications, cytopathologic results and complications of conization, were evaluated...
- Unusual location of ovarian mixed germ cell tumor
F Ghaemmaghami
Gynecology Oncology Department and Pathology Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Int J Gynecol Cancer 15:979-83. 2005
..After that, four courses of chemotherapy (bleomycin, etoposide, and cis-platinum) were done to cure her. The alfa-fetoprotein became negative after three courses of chemotherapy, and she is under observation for the time being...
- Is postoperative CA125 level in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer reliable to guess the optimality of surgery?
F Ghaemmaghami
Department of Gynecology Oncology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Eur J Gynaecol Oncol 32:192-5. 2011
..The aim of this prospective study was to determine if optimum versus suboptimal cytoreductive surgery predicts CA125 levels two weeks after surgery...
- A study to evaluate the utility of presurgical CA125 to predict optimal tumor cytoreduction of epithelial ovarian cancer
Mitra Modares Gilani
Department of Gynecology Oncology, Vali Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Keshavarz Blvd, Tehran, Iran
Gynecol Oncol 105:780-3. 2007
..To determine the ability of a preoperative serum CA125 to predict optimal primary tumor cytoreduction in patients with stage III and IV epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC)...
- Can primary optimal cytoreduction be predicted in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer preoperatively?
Azam Sadat Mousavi
Department of Gynecology Oncology, Vali e Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Keshavarz Blvd, Tehran, 1419733141, Iran
World J Surg Oncol 8:11. 2010
..Prediction of optimal cytoreduction in patients with advanced epithelial ovarian caner preoperatively...
- High levels of CA125 (over 1,000 IU/ml) in patients with gynecologic disease and no malignant conditions: three cases and literature review
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Gynecologic Oncology Department, Vali e Asr Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran 14194, Iran
Arch Gynecol Obstet 276:559-61. 2007
..To report the very high serum levels of CA125 in patients with benign gynecologic disease which manifests as pelvic mass...
- Primary malignant melanoma of the uterine cervix: case report and review of the literature
Azam S Mousavi
Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
J Low Genit Tract Dis 10:258-63. 2006
..The immunohistochemical study is useful for definite diagnosis. Treatment is not well established, and the disease histogenesis has been controversial for a long time...
- Female genital warts
Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami
Medical Sciences Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 8:339-47. 2007
..Current therapies for human papillomavirus-associated disease are based on the excision or ablation of involved tissue and are associated with a high frequency of recurrent disease, discomfort and costs...
