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Chordoma is a rare slow-growing neoplasm thought to arise from cellular remnants of the notochord.The evidence for this is the location of the tumors (along the neuraxis), the similar immunohistochemical staining patterns, and the demonstration that notochordal cells are preferentially left behind in the clivus and sacrococcygeal regions when the remainder of the notochord regresses during ...
The clivus is a shallow depression behind the dorsum sellae of the sphenoid bone. [3] It slopes gradually to the anterior part of the basilar occipital bone at its junction with the sphenoid bone. Synchondrosis of these two bones forms the clivus. The clivus extends inferiorly to the foramen magnum. [3]
Vulvar cancer is a cancer of the vulva, the outer portion of the female genitals. [1] It most commonly affects the labia majora. [1] Less often, the labia minora, clitoris, or Bartholin's glands are affected. [1] Symptoms include a lump, itchiness, changes in the skin, or bleeding from the vulva. [1]
Some benign tumors may later progress to become malignant tumors, such as vaginal cancers. [10] [11] Some neoplastic growths of the vagina are sufficiently rare as to be only described in case studies. [3] Signs and symptoms may include a feeling of pressure, painful intercourse or bleeding. [12] Most vaginal tumors are located during a pelvic ...
Rare, <1% of all female genital tract cancer, <5% of vulvar cancer [2] Bartholin gland carcinoma is a type of cancer of the vulva arising in the Bartholin gland . [ 2 ] It typically presents with a painless mass at one side of the vaginal opening in a female of middle-age and older, and can appear similar to a Bartholin cyst . [ 2 ]
As the Cleveland Clinic explains, the disorder presents “with a range of neuropsychiatric symptoms” like Tarver experienced, and is commonly caused by a tumor.. However, the GoFundMe says ...
The tumors are usually symptomless but may be intermittently or constantly painful, become ulcerated, and exhibit minor levels of bleeding. [9] The pain resulting from these tumors may be simple tenderness, more or less constant usually mild pain, [4] [9] or, in females, dyspareunia, i.e. pain during and just after sexual intercourse. [4]
Doctors removed the tumor during surgery that June. The 41-year-old TV personality discovered she had a golf ball-sized growth pushing on her facial nerves in 2017 after experiencing dizziness ...