OBJECTIVE: To determine what symptom differences are prevalent in patients with differing ages of endometriosis symptom onset. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We obtained clinical and demographic data from 1560 individuals with suspected pelvic cond…
BackgroundDuring pregnancy a feto-maternal exchange of cells through the placenta conducts to maternal microchimerism (Mc) in the child and fetal Mc in the mother. Because of this bidirectional traffic of cells, pregnant women have also acq…
•Brain metastasis is an extremely rare secondary site of ovarian cancer metastasis.•Serous borderline tumor with brain metastasis has not been previously reported.•This is a rare case of brain metastasis in a patient with advanced serous bo…
There is growing evidence of the impact of estrogenic contaminants in the environment. Studies have shown that male fish in detergent-contaminated water express female characteristics, turtles are sex-reversed by polychlorinated biphenyls (…
We have analyzed 37 cases of simultaneous appearance of carcinoma in the ovary and endometrium. This paper deals with the question of whether they should be considered stage III endometrial carcinomas, stage II ovarian carcinomas or indepen…
42 patients with advanced epithelial ovarian carcinoma who were clinically free of disease after completed postoperative chemotherapy were submitted to second-look laparotomy at the University clinics of Bilbao and Santander, in Northern Sp…
It is now possible to identify and study the performance of different subgroups of patients in in vitro fertilization (IVF) programs. Patients with severe pelvic adhesions due to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) or endometriosis were class…