OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to examine if COX-2, CK7 and CK20 are involved in the malignant transformation of endometriosis. METHODS: We compared COX-2, CK7 and CK20 expressions between isolated endometriosis lesions and endo…
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare differences between laparoscopy and laparotomy in managing women ruptured corpus luteum with hemoperitoneum. DESIGN: Three-year, prospective, nonrandomized study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTI…
BACKGROUND: Wound endometriosis is still a rare phenomenon. In this study, we tried to identify its risk factors and presented our experience in managing such disease. METHODS: We studied twenty-three women with pathologically confirmed wo…
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare laparoscopic surgery and conventional laparotomy in managing patients with tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA). DESIGN: Retrospective study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTING: Regional hospital. PATIENT…
Laparoscopic bipolar coagulation of uterine vessels (LBCUV) is reported to treat clinically symptomatic myomas that caused severe menorrhagia, but the viability of pregnancy after operation is unknown. A woman with clinically diagnosed uter…
BACKGROUND: To our knowledge, ovarian calcification and ossification involving the whole ovary with images that mimic stone formations have not been reported before. CASE REPORT: A 42-year-old woman presented with severe abdominal pain. Pl…
BACKGROUND: Elevated level of serum CA-125 was detected in a 48-year-old woman who was diagnosed with a lateral fusion defect in association with congenital agenesis of the uterine cervix. This unusual case combined two developmental anomal…