Diagnostic gynecology and obstetrics

One case of recurrent pneumothorax, coinciding with menstruation, is documented. The ethiopathogenesis of this syndrome remains unknown, after studying the 44 cases. Their association with pleural endometriosis has only been found in nine c…

The capacity of epithelial cancer to invade the lymph nodes is a common notion. Adenopathy may, on rare occasions, be the first clinical sign of an unrecognized cancer. Exceptionally following the discovery in a lymph node of malignant-look…

A 17-year-old female with recent onset of amenorrhea was found to have a large solid and cystic ovarian mass. Histology revealed a proliferating endometrioid cystadenofibroma. These are rare neoplasms that generally occur in older women. Th…

The charts of 46 patients between the ages 30-50 years having a hysterectomy for a fibroid uterus were reviewed. The diagnosis of adenomyosis was correctly made preoperatively in four patients. The diagnosis was not made preoperatively in 1…

The incidence of ovulatory dysfunction (anovulation, oligo-ovulation, and luteal phase defect) in 103 patients with endometriosis and infertility was found to be 27.2%. Ovulatory dysfunction was found to occur at a slightly higher age group…

Tissue from 180 gynecologic disorders were studied for the simultaneous expression of HCG and CEA, utilizing the immunoperoxidase technique. Of the total population, 0.5% expressed both antigens, 8.8% expressed only hCG, and 5.5% expressed …

Müllerian adenosarcoma of the uterus has been regarded as a neoplasm of low-grade malignancy; notwithstanding frequent local recurrences, sometimes after long intervals, the overall prognosis of the three dozen or so tumors reported in the …