Ellika Andolf

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between caesarean section and later endometriosis. DESIGN: A prospective cohort study. SETTING: The Swedish Patient Register (PAR) and the Swedish Medical Birth Registry (MBR). SAMPLE: Women who wer…

BACKGROUND: The aim was to evaluate whether patients with benign ovarian cysts, functional ovarian cysts, or endometriosis have an increased risk of developing gynecologic cancer. METHODS: The Swedish Hospital Discharge Register was used to…

Background. The aim was to evaluate whether patients with benign ovarian cysts, functional ovarian cysts, or endometriosis have an increased risk of developing gynecologic cancer. Methods. The Swedish Hospital Discharge Register was used to…

Using the Swedish Hospital Discharge Register, the authors identified all Swedish women born before 1970 who had been hospitalized for benign ovarian cyst (n = 42,217), functional ovarian cyst (n = 17,998), or endometriosis (n = 28,163). To…

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence and significance of an endometrial thickness of 5 mm or greater measured by ultrasound in postmenopausal women without vaginal bleeding. METHODS: Three hundred asymptomatic postmenopausal women schedule…

Eighty-five patients underwent transabdominal (TAU) and transvaginal ultrasound (TVU) 24 hours before elective surgery for gynecologic disease. No obstetric cases were included. The diagnostic outcome of TVU was not significantly better tha…