California medicine

These discussions are selected from the weekly staff conferences in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Taken from transcriptions, they are prepared by Drs. Sydney E. Salmon and Robert W. Schrier, Assistant …

Sufficient histologic and embryologic information is now available to allow for a reasonably satisfactory histogenic classification of ovarian neoplasms. The majority of these tumors are derived from germ cells, sex cord-mesenchyme or the g…

Among 205 ovaries with cortical stromal hyperplasia or polycystic changes, 52 showed excessive luteinization. The clinical and pathologic parameters investigated were not statistically different in the group with extensive thecomatosis. Hyp…

Oxanamide (Quiactin(R)) was administered to 45 patients with a wide variety of gynecologic ailments associated with nervous or emotional tension. The most common conditions with which anxiety was associated in this series were premenstrual …

Endometriosis, the cause of which is unknown, is on the increase. Treatment is surgical-conservative in the childbearing years. Hormonal therapy is sometimes palliative for a time, and the disease may regress during pregnancy. Endometriosis…

Decidual reaction of the cervix is a benign growth produced by the hormones of pregnancy. These reactions or changes in the cervix are present in about 20 per cent of normal pregnant women. They may look like cancer but are not cancer. They…