PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to evaluate our experience of laparoscopic ureteroneocystostomy for mid and lower ureteral stricture in a tertiary center in North India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 20 laparoscopic ureteroneocys…
Sex cord tumor with annular tubules (SCTATs) is a relatively rare ovarian neoplasm often having a syndromic association with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS). Other associations described with this rare neoplasm include adenoma malignum of cerv…
BACKGROUND: Aldehyde dehydrogenases belong to a superfamily of detoxifying enzymes that protect cells from carcinogenic aldehydes. Of the superfamily, ALDH1A1 has gained most attention because current studies have shown that its expression …
OBJECTIVE: Kisspeptins (Kps), were first found to regulate the hypothalamopituitary-gonadal axis (HPG) axis in 2003, when two groups-demonstrated that mutations of GPR54 causes idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (IHH) characterized by…
INTRODUCTION: Caesarean section incidence is rising and caesarean scar endometriosis could be encountered more in the day to day clinical practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We present three cases of caesarean scar endometriosis which were ma…
Angiogenesis, the formation of new capillaries from preexisting vessels, plays an essential role in revascularization of the myocardium following myocardial infarction (MI). Interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta), a proinflammatory cytokine increased…
Ovarian fibroma with minor sex cord element is a rare neoplasm. Microscopically it is composed of predominantly fibromatous or a thecomatous tumor containing scattered minor sex cord elements in less than 10% of the tumor area.A case of fib…
BACKGROUND: Primary adenosarcoma arising in vaginal endometriosis poses a diagnostic challenge, especially in superficial vaginal biopsies. CASE: A 56-year-old woman, with a prior diagnosis of ovarian endometriosis, presented with a rapidl…
PURPOSE: Our purpose was to examine the effect of treated mild pelvic disease on the outcome of superovulation with intrauterine insemination (SO/IUI). METHODS: Three hundred cycles of SO/IUI were retrospectively reviewed for 118 women wit…
OBJECTIVE: To determine if red-haired infertile women have an increased prevalence of endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospective, nonblinded. SETTING: Large, metropolitan, private hospital, associated with a university. Subspeciality care provide…