IntroductionTo prevent blood donors from developing iron deficiency (ferritin <15 μg/L) and subsequent anemia (hemoglobin <120 g/L), blood services rely on information about known risk factors, including the donor's sex and age. For example…
Population isolates such as those in Finland benefit genetic research because deleterious alleles are often concentrated on a small number of low-frequency variants (0.1% ≤ minor allele frequency < 5%). These variants survived the founding …
The aim of the study was to reveal the prevalence of concomitant endometriosis in malignant and borderline ovarian tumours. A retrospective analysis was performed of 530 patients with malignant ovarian tumours and 131 with borderline ovaria…
ObjectiveTo evaluate the role of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) as a tumor marker in diagnosis and follow-up of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer.MethodsEighty-seven epithelial ovarian cancer patients, 74 benign ovarian tumor patients, a…
The aim of this study was to document a case of tamoxifen-associated extensive pelvic endometriosis and attract the attention to this side effect of tamoxifen use in the postmenopausal patient. A 74-year-old woman with a history of breast c…
ObjectiveTo determine the prevalence of ovarian endometriosis in malignant epithelial ovarian tumours.Study designA retrospective analysis of 160 malignant and 23 borderline ovarian tumours during the period 1995-2001.ResultsFourteen (7.7%)…