Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR

INTRODUCTION: Tuboperitoneal pathology is responsible for 40-50% cases of infertility. Hysterosalpingography (HSG) & laparoscopy are the two classic methods available for evaluation of tubal pathology and are complementary to each other. Th…

Primary abdominal pregnancy has a higher mortality rate than other ectopic gestations. Delayed diagnosis can be associated with catastrophic haemorrhage. This report describes a spontaneous conception which occurred in the uterosacral ligam…

Tubo-ovarian abscesses can rupture spontaneously after a manual examination or an accidental trauma. A critically ill patient with septic peritonitis will only deteriorate if timely surgical removal of pus is not done. The operation of choi…

UNLABELLED: Introduction : A prospective study was carried out in Department of Obstretics and Gynaecology in KIMS Hospital Bangalore, India, for a period of 18 mnth from 2005-2008. Sixty cases were selected for this study from patients who…

Pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS) is a cause of chronic pelvic pain in women and is defined as pelvic pain lasting for more than six months.The diagnosis of PCS is a challenging task for the gynaecologist. It can be due to many varied causes…

Endometriosis is presence of functioning endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity, usually in the pelvis. However, its occurrence is very rare (0.03%-0.4%) in the scars which follow obstetrical and gynaecological surgeries. We are repo…

Extra pelvic endometriosis, an underappreciated and misdiagnosed gynaecological problem has been reported here for its rare location. Patient presented with swelling and cyclical pain over vertical scar (caesarean). Diagnosis was made on hi…

Transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the ovary is a recently recognized, subtype of ovarian surface epithelial cancer; the pure form accounting for only 1% of surface epithelial tumors. It has been described as a primary ovarian carcinoma w…

Right iliac fossa (RIF) pain is the most common presenting complaint in the general surgical ward. Though there are several causes for the RIF pain, acute appendicitis is the first and common diagnosis. Here we present one of the rare diffe…

Umbilical metastasis is a rare manifestation of intra-abdominal cancer. It appears either as the first sign of a primary malignancy or as metastatic site of an already diagnosed cancer, representing an ominous prognostic finding. We report …

An interstitial ectopic pregnancy is a rare and a dangerous form of an ectopic pregnancy. It presents late clinically and it is difficult to be imaged radiographically. We are presenting a case of an interstitial pregnancy which was a surpr…

BACKGROUND: Polycystic ovarian disease is one of the most common causes of infertility in women of reproductive age. Anti- mullerian hormone (AMH), a member of transforming growth factor (TGF) family which is secreted by granulosa cells of …

OBJECTIVE: This study was carried out to evaluate the efficacy of Ormeloxifene in the pharmacological management of dysfunctional uterine bleeding. DESIGN AND SETTING: A prospective study was conducted on women with dysfunctional uterine b…

AIM AND OBJECTIVE: To study the serum prolactin levels and the serum TSH in primary infertile females. MATERIAL AND METHOD: In this study, we investigated thirty women who were diagnosed cases of primary infertility, who attended the Bioch…

INTRODUCTION: Endometrioma is a common form of endometriosis and it is represented by endometriotic deposits within the ovaries which accounts for upto 17-44% of cases. Laparoscopic stripping of ovarian endometriotic cysts is an accepted te…

IntroductionManagement of Adnexal masses poses a double edged problem. There is a dilemma of performing extensive surgery in the form of staging laparotomy for a benign disease on one hand and the lurking fear of missing the diagnosis of ma…

Mucocele of Appendix is a gross or clinical descriptive term for dilatation of the appendiceal lumen by mucus.It is a rare pathology with an overall incidence of 0.2 to 0.3% of all appendectomies. Majority of these cases present with mucoce…

Salpingitis isthmica nodosa places the patient at risk for recurrent ectopic pregnancy or infertility. Hence, we report a case of salpingitis isthmica nodosa which was salpingectomized for pain abdomen in a 46- year old woman.

Although endometriosis involves the small intestine only rarely, when present, this condition may simulate a variety of inflammatory and sometimes neoplastic conditions because of its nonspecific symptoms. We are reporting here, a case of i…

INTRODUCTION: Fluoxetine is a commonly prescribed drug which is used in the psychiatric practice and adenomyosis is a common medical problem in women of the reproductive age group. OBJECTIVE: To explore the role of fluoxetine in the causat…

IntroductionThe swim up and the density-gradient centrifugation are the two main techniques which are used to separate the viable motile sperm fraction in the assisted reproductive technology. However, there are several published studies ab…