Elizabeth E. Puscheck

Bone mineral density (BMD) changes during the life span, increasing rapidly during adolescence, plateauing in the third decade of life, and subsequently entering a phase of age-related decline. In women, menopause leads to accelerated bone …

Endometriosis is a condition with variable location, size, and lesion composition which poses a diagnostic imaging challenge for the practicing gynecologist. Transvaginal ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging are the most frequent imagi…

Endometriosis and adenomyosis may be accurately diagnosed using ultrasound (US). Several findings are characteristic and various US modalities have been described. Recent development of 3-dimensional transvaginal US has resulted in a major …

Our aim is to document a case of endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the ovary found in an endometriotic cyst that was suspected on pelvic ultrasound in a patient with polycystic ovary syndrome, normal Ca125, and a recent history of ovulation in…

Postoperative adhesions develop in the overwhelming majority of women after both open and laparoscopic surgical procedures. Such adhesions may be a major contributing factor to chronic pelvic pain but often coexist with other pathologic pro…

UNLABELLED: Uterine leiomyomas are benign tumors of smooth muscle origin with protean symptomatology, and are the most common gynecological tumor in women of reproductive age. Very rarely, benign uterine leiomyomas display bizarre growth pa…

To determine whether mononuclear cell secretory products contribute to the changes in bone turnover that characterize the development of postmenopausal osteoporosis, we evaluated the effects of oophorectomy and subsequent estrogen replaceme…