Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica

BACKGROUND: To study the feasibility, complications and symptom relief of laparoscopic treatment in patients with deep infiltrating endometriosis. METHODS: From January 2004 to March 2005, 24 patients with deep infiltrating endometriosis w…

BACKGROUND: It is known that endometriosis is an inflammatory disease and those patients seem to have lower pregnancy rates. The aim of the study was to investigate the concentrations of chemokines and proinflammatory cytokines in the folli…

BACKGROUND: The suitable parameter in PF as well as in serum that may predict the activity of endometriosis is not well described. Therefore, we tried to examine the peritoneal fluid (PF) and serum concentrations of hepatocyte growth factor…

A 45-year-old woman, gravida 4, para 2, had a 4-year history of menorrhagia associated with iron deficiency anemia, which could not be controlled with medical treatment. Outpatient diagnostic hysteroscopy showed a normal uterine cavity and …

Pyometra is an uncommon gynecologic condition. We report a case of pyometra in a 64-year-old woman with cervical carcinoma. The pyometra appeared as a pelvic abscess on computer tomography (CT) and transrectal ultrasound guided drainage was…

BACKGROUND: The objectives were to observe the clinical course of patients who underwent laparoscopic cystectomy (LC) using transvaginal ultrasonography. METHOD: The definition of "recurrence" was to detect a diffuse, hypoechoic area whose…

BACKGROUND: To evaluate the relationship between the severity of dysmenorrhea and endometrioma. METHODS: Descriptive study with prospective design. Two hundred and thirty-nine women with histologically proved endometriomas. The severity of…

BACKGROUND: Hysteroscopic transcervical resection of the endometrium and submucous fibroids has been performed to treat excessive uterine bleeding as an alternative to hysterectomy. The present study aims to evaluate the treatment effect of…

BACKGROUND: To evaluate the release of granulocyte chemotactic protein-2 (GCP-2) into peritoneal fluid in women with endometriosis, we measured its concentration with reference to the disease stage and the phase of the menstrual cycle. MET…

BACKGROUND: The effect of physical training on bone mineral density (BMD) in women with endometriosis treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogs was studied. METHODS: Nineteen Caucasian premenopausal women aged 23-38 years …

Selective uterine artery embolization is being performed as an emergency procedure to control uterine bleeding. In this procedure, a small angiographic catheter is guided into the uterine arteries and a stream of tiny particles such as poly…

In premenopausal women ovaries are the major sites of estrogen production, while in postmenopausal women estrogen is produced by aromatization of ovarian and adrenal androgens in extragonadal sites, mostly in adipose tissue. Aromatase is a …

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 t…

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to clarify changes in the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) during decidualization by endometrial stromal cells (ESCs) in vitro. METHODS: ESCs were separated by enzymic digestion …

Female sexuality has been, and still is, mythical. This is largely because it is nearly impossible to create other than observational data, not to mention the possibility of blinded studies. This also concerns the role of the uterine cervix…

BACKGROUND: Higher activity by early endometriosis than advanced endometriosis has been reported. However, the pattern of activity in individual colored endometriotic lesions in pelvic cavity is unknown. We investigated the variation in act…

BACKGROUND: The purposes of this study were to compare proton magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopic evaluation of the endometrium with histology obtained by endometrial biopsy in women undergoing diagnostic curettage and to determine whethe…

The use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists in a long protocol appears to enhance the probability of conception in the presence of endometriosis. In addition, there is evidence to suggest that the use of prolonged downregulati…

The bladder is a common site of injury during hysterectomy for benign disorders 123. Investigations have shown that endometriosis and previous surgery such as cesarean section are risk factors, as well as some operative methods, for instanc…

Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of mortality related to gynecologic malignancies in Sweden but there is no current screening program. Based upon epidemiological research there is evidence that certain reproductive factors are associated…

Sir, In their article, Khan et al. (1) used the Mann–Whitney test and the Kruskal–Wallis test to compare groups, because they claim that normality was not satisfied. However, in their comparisons between the groups, they are in fact compari…