BACKGROUND: In-vitro-fertilization (IVF) failure rates remain above 65% with unknown causes. Uterine receptivity, largely determined by uterine peristalsis, is believed to play a key role in the IVF success. Accurate assessment of uterine p…
BACKGROUND: Inequalities in access to care for women, people of non-white ethnicity, who live in areas of social deprivation, and with multiple long-term conditions lead to inequity of outcomes. We investigated the intersectionality of thes…
The weakened immune system in people living with HIV (PLWH) can lead to infectious diseases occurring more aggressively and mimicking the clinical manifestations of malignancies. Mycobacterium sherrisii, a slow-growing nontuberculous mycoba…
PURPOSE: Many rare ovarian cancer subtypes, such as small-cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type (SCCOHT), have poor prognosis due to their aggressive nature and resistance to standard platinum- and taxane-based chemotherapy. The d…
BACKGROUND: Pain sensitization processing in the central nervous system may be related to endometriosis-associated pain in patients. The purpose of this study was to understand the alterations in the abnormal pain response in central brain …
Ping Zheng, 1 Shuangzheng Jia, 1 Dalong Guo, 2 Sikai Chen, 1 Wen Zhang, 1 Aoshuang Cheng, 1 Weijie Xie, 3 Guibo Sun, 3 Jinhua Leng, 1 Jinghe Lang 1 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Aca…
Mesonephric carcinoma is a rare gynecologic neoplasm commonly mistaken for clear cell carcinoma, because of their overlapping morphologic features. Both tumors are negative for estrogen receptor and p16, magnifying this diagnostic dilemma. …
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis (EM) is a common gynecological disease in women of reproductive age. These patients in approximately 80% suffer the various degree pain. This study will investigate synergistically the mechanism of the higher-posit…
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of reproductive pathology in a group of infertile women thought to be at low risk for altered pelvic anatomy. DESIGN: Retrospective chart review and follow-up (Canadian Task Force classification…