Augusto F. Mesia

Hemoptysis can be caused by a variety of pulmonary diseases, including parasitic infections, tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis and malignancies. Rarely, pulmonary endometriosis can present with hemoptysis and pose a diagnostic problem to cli…

Perivascular decidualized human endometrial stromal cells (HESCs) are ideally positioned to prevent peri-implantational hemorrhage during endovascular trophoblast invasion by expressing tissue factor (TF), the primary cellular mediator of h…

We report a case of xanthogranulomatous tubo-ovarian abscess which was preoperatively suspected to be an adnexal neoplasm. With foreign body material found in the abscess wall and vegetable fiber in the tubal lumen, a previously treated chr…