R M Pitkin

Conservative or radical surgical treatment, steroidal hormones to produce pseudopregnancy, and danazol are all being used to relieve the symptoms of endometriosis or to treat the infertility that frequently accompanies it. The choice of the…

During a 25 year period in a university hospital gynecology service, 300 obese women, weighing 200 pounds or more, underwent abdominal total hysterectomy. In comparison with nonobese controls, the overweight patients were more likely to hav…