Suspicion of genital tuberculosis isolated within the unilateral ovary with the dermoid cyst: A diagnostic dilemma

© 2018, Pharmainfo Publications. All rights reserved. Genital tuberculosis isolated in the same ovary with dermoid cyst is a rare condition. We present a 25-year female with a removed dermoid cyst of the ovary who underwent urgent subsequent laparoscopy within 3 months from the first surgery in order to exclude an ectopic pregnancy. The challenging in the pathology report from the second surgery was raised suspicion of specific infection of the resected ovary. To our best knowledge, only one case of tuberculosis of the dermoid cyst reported in 1958. A multidisciplinary approach involving chest specialist, gynecologists and morphologist have opted

Suspicion of genital tuberculosis isolated within the unilateral ovary with the dermoid cyst: A diagnostic dilemma

© 2018, Pharmainfo Publications. All rights reserved. Genital tuberculosis isolated in the same ovary with dermoid cyst is a rare condition. We present a 25-year female with a removed dermoid cyst of the ovary who underwent urgent subsequent laparoscopy within 3 months from the first surgery in order to exclude an ectopic pregnancy. The challenging in the pathology report from the second surgery was raised suspicion of specific infection of the resected ovary. To our best knowledge, only one case of tuberculosis of the dermoid cyst reported in 1958. A multidisciplinary approach involving chest specialist, gynecologists and morphologist have opted

Comparative phylogeography of capitulate Campanula species from the Balkans, with description of a new species, C. daucoides

Capitulate inflorescence is a specific, strongly adaptive and rare feature in the genus Campanula. We studied morphologically eight capitulate Campanula taxa from the Balkans (1537 individuals/52 populations) and one more species from Caucasus at the molecular level (using chloroplast markers trnG(UCC)-trnS(GCU) and psbA-trnH, 130 individuals/58 populations) to assess their relations and evolutionary histories. Although all studied taxa were well circumscribed at both the morphological and molecular levels (except morphologically distinct but genetically invariable C. moesiaca which acquired its single haplotype via past cytoplasmic introgression from C. cervicaria), their relations inferred from the two datasets were incongruent possibly due to the homoplasy of morphological characters frequently reported in Campanula. Interspecific hybridization and introgression affected majority of studied species and may be more common in Campanula than previously thought. These processes, along with incomplete lineage sorting and retention of ancestral polymorphisms, hampered our phylogenetic reconstructions and prevented us to fully resolve species relations, and to support monophyletic origin of capitulate Campanula species. Nonetheless, several cryptic taxa were delineated, and C. daucoides was described as a new capitulate Campanula species. Different evolutionary histories and multiple glacial refugia were inferred for all species represented by multiple samples (except C. moesiaca). According to our dating, their speciation was in most cases triggered by various geo-historic events such as the uplift of the Alpide belt, Messinian Salinity Crisis, or desiccation of the Pannonian Sea/Pliocene Lakes from the central Balkans, while their further diversification was mainly driven by the onset of the Quaternary and cycles of glacials/interglacials