Gynecologic and obstetric investigation

OBJECTIVE: Urinary bladder endometriosis is a severe form of endometriosis often requiring surgery. The several cases treated at our hospital in recent years has led us to evaluate the incidence of urinary bladder endometriosis in Finland. …

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate the Ki-67 immunostaining method on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded endometrium and to use the method on endometrial biopsies from 30 postmenopausal women treated with 2 mg estr…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of local immunity in women with minimal endometriosis. METHODS: Uterine endometrium and endometrial implants were obtained simultaneously from 30 infertile women with minimal endometriosis and examined immun…

OBJECTIVES: Immunologic mechanisms are implicated in the pathogenesis of endometriosis and endometriosis-associated reproductive failure. The purpose of this study was to describe key immune response elements in eutopic and ectopic endometr…

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether women with endometriosis displayed a decreased lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) activity. In 15 women with and 7 women without endometriosis the cytotoxicity against four different tu…

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Endometriosis is an invasive disease. Its diagnosis depends on laparoscopy, which is traumatic and associated with potential complications. The aim of this study was to develop a rapid, reliable, and less invasive diagnosti…

The histopathology of spontaneous endometriosis was studied on 20 pelvic implants biopsied at laparoscopy in 15 healthy baboons. Endometriosis was confirmed by histopathology in 10 of these animals (66%). Typical (n = 3) and subtle (n = 13)…

Nafarelin, a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist, has been shown to be effective in the treatment of endometriosis. The standard dosage is 200 micrograms bid intranasally. Side effects most commonly include those associated with estrogen…

An ultrastructural review of the cyclic changes of endometrial surface and glandular epithelial cells, stromal cells and the stromal microvasculature is presented. Endometrial biopsies were collected from infertile patients with endometrios…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate short- and long-term treatment outcomes of outpatient local anaesthetic thermal balloon endometrial ablation (LA-TBEA) and identify any prognostic factors. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective observational study in a UK …

One hundred and sixty-six ovaries of the women of childbearing age suffering from chronic pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) were studied histologically and compared with normal ovaries. The number of mature follicles, cystic atretic follicl…

We present a case of leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata (LPD) after myoma morcellation and review the literature using the keywords leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata and disseminated peritoneal leiomyomatosis. The search was cond…

The objective of the present study was to detect the expression of P-cadherin in human endometrium and endometriosis and to compare this expression to that of E-cadherin. To this end immunohistochemistry with monoclonal antibodies specific …

We report 2 patients with pelvic-peritoneal tuberculosis and elevated serum and peritoneal fluid levels of Ca-125. The first was a young and infertile women who had cul-de-sac nodularity and dysmenorrhea. The other was postmenopausal and pr…

Data on the presence of an ovulation ostium and the volume and the concentrations of estradiol (17 beta-estradiol) and progesterone In women with endometriosis (n = 80) and women with luteinized unruptured follicle (LUF) syndrome (n = 32) a…

BACKGROUND AND AIM: To study the characteristics of the inner (IM) and outer (OM) myometrium in the presence and absence of uterine adenomyosis. METHODS: Case control blinded comparison carried out in a university department. Morphometric …

A phyllodes tumor appeared at the site of a resected fibrocystic disease focus. Administration of danazol resulted in temporary regression, but the tumor resumed growth. Relative hyperestrogenism also continued to increase in spite of conti…

Ten patients suffering from endometriosis were treated with danazol at a dose of 200 mg three times daily for 6 months. For evaluation of prolactin (PRL) and TSH secretion, a TRH test was carried out in the follicular phase before treatment…

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Earlier studies with radionuclide hysterosalpingography (RN-HSG) using either small or large particles have shown different results. Some studies have questioned the clinical relevance of RN-HSG. The aim of this study was t…

Of 903 surgically treated patients with endometriosis the disease recurred in 132 cases (14.6%) during the follow-up period of 6-10 years. The re-operation was performed within 1 year after the primary operation for 7 patients, within 1-5 y…

Two premenopausal women presented with endometrioma and slightly elevated CA 125 plasma levels (42.5 and 39.0 U/ml). After initial evaluation, both patients had an episode of sudden onset of pelvic pain with rapid resolution after a few hou…

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of endometriosis on the proliferation of the endometrium as determined by sonographic measurements of endometrial thickness and echo pattern at peak follicular maturation. A prospect…

This was a retrospective study analyzing the need for reoperation for recurrent endometriomas after surgical therapy. There were 104 women who were followed after surgical excision of endometriomas, with a cross section of 46 gynecologic su…

AIMS: To characterize the reproductive health of urban South Korean women of reproductive age. METHODS: A cross-sectional online survey on menstrual patterns, sexual behavior, utilization of contraception, and perception of gynecological d…

63 infertile patients who failed in achieving pregnancy for several cycles with human menopausal gonadotropin stimulation protocol in our in vitro fertilization program were subsequently treated with urinary FSH regime. In 25 of these patie…