OBJECTIVE: To estimate the incidence of synchronous endometrial cancer (EC) and ovarian cancer (OC) in the female population, among all women with EC, and in women under 50 years of age with EC, and to identify factors associated with synch…
OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to evaluate the prevalence and comorbidity of acute postoperative pancreatitis after gynecologic and obstetric surgery. STUDY DESIGN: We reviewed the Mayo Medical Center surgical database (January 1953-January 1997)…
From 20 patients with ovarian carcinoma (4 with stage I and 16 with stage III disease), we obtained peripheral blood mononuclear cells (MNC) from each, tumor-associated MNC from 9, and ascitic MNC from 6. These cells were stimulated with in…
Serum CA 125 levels were determined in 64 women with benign ovarian lesions, 92 women with uterine fundal lesions, and six patients who had negative second-look laparotomy for epithelial ovarian carcinoma. Of those with benign lesions, 13 o…