OBJECTIVE: To investigate the role of natural killer (NK) cell activity in the development of endometriosis. METHODS: The NK cell activity in peripheral blood (PB) and in peritoneal fluid (PF) of 72 patients with endometriosis was studied …
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the value of serum CA125 assays in the diagnosis of uterine adenomyosis. METHODS: Fifty-five consecutive patients with uterine-adenomyosis and twenty with leiomyoma of uterus, diagnosed by surgery and pathology we…
OBJECTIVE: The technique and experience of vaginal hysterectomy for large uterus of 25 cases was reported. METHODS: Vaginal hysterectomy for 25 cases of uterine fibroids and adenomyosis were performed. The uterine sizes enlarged as large a…
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the efficacy of luteinizing hormone releasing hormone agonist (LHRH-A) in the treatment of endometriosis (Em), uterine leiomyoma and adenomyosis, and its impact on bone metabolism. METHODS: Twenty patients, Em 13 (s…
OBJECTIVE: To study the therapeutic effects of gestrinone on experimental endometriosis in rabbits. METHODS: Mature female rabbits were laparotomized under sterile condition and three or four segments of endometrium (7 mm x 7 mm) were sutu…
In order to study the risk factors associated with pelvic endometriosis, a case-control study was carried out from Mar. 1991 to Feb. 1993 in our gynecological ward. A total of 190 cases with endometriosis and 192 patients with non-endometri…
A series of 200 cases of endometriosis were treated laparoscopically by Nd: YAG laser and microwave at Peking Union Medical College Hospital. All the operations were performed under local and topical anesthesia follow-up for 10-48 months re…
The value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis and staging of endometrial carcinoma was studied in 43 cases of clinically suspected endometrial carcinoma and 7 normal women. All of the 43 cases showed abnormal endometria mea…
From February 1991 to January 1993, a total of 383 women of child-bearing age who were hospitalized in gynecologic ward were investigated for their painful symptoms, of whom 192 were found to be patients with endometriosis (endometriosis gr…
Exicised tubal segments (including interstial and isthmic portions) from 33 women with proximal tubal occlusive infertility were examined pathologically. We found that pathologic entities included chronic tubal inflammation (70.59%), tubal …
Thirty-nine cases of ovarian pregnancy in our hospital from 1982 to 1992 were analyzed, and compared with the tubal pregnancies admitted during the same period. It showed that the incidence of ovarian pregnancy was 2.6% of all ectopic pregn…
UNLABELLED: Estrogen and progesterone cytosol receptor (ERc, PRc) concentrations of endometrium biopsied during different phases of menstrual cycle were measured by dextran-coated charcoal method in 27 normal fertile women and 24 patients w…
A case-control study, involving 203 cases of pelvic endometriosis and 406 randomly selected and age-matched community controls, was conducted. The results were as following: 1) A decreased risk for endometriosis was found to be related to p…
Sixty patients with endometriosis, stage I-IV, diagnosed by laparoscopy or laparotomy, were treated with 200 micrograms of domestic luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone analogue (LHRH-A) subcutaneously twice daily, starting from the early …
Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) of 16 infertile women with endometriosis was measured in their peritoneal fluid (PF) with double monoclonal antibody ELISA method, and its effect on sperm motility and membrane integrity was evaluated by semen an…
Levels of CA125 and endometrial antibodies (EMAb) in serum and peritoneal fluid were determined in 42 cases, including 28 cases of endometriosis as trial group and 14 infertile patients without endometriosis as controls. Results showed that…
The study on transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in 52 cases of ovarian epithelial tumors (OET) was presented. The characteristic features of ultrastructure and cell surface structure of different t…
This article presents 19 patients with double primary carcinoma of the uterine corpus and ovary diagnosed and treated at Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong in last ten years. 14 patients had typical endometrial adenocarcinoma and …
Seventy-one cases of infertile women with both normal menstrual cycle and biphasic BBT were studied with ultrasonography, laparoscopy, hormonal assay and endometrial histology. Signs for follicular development and ovulation were divided int…
A histopathologic review of 959 cases of the endocervical, endometrial and tubal adenocarcinomas is presented. Most of the histopathologic types of the adenocarcinoma in each site were in consistent with that of it's native epithelium, whic…
A case-control study, involving 203 cases of pelvic endometriosis and 406 randomly selected and age-matched community controls, was conducted. The results showed that women characterized by earlier menarche ( 7 days) were associated with an…
UNLABELLED: Serum prolactin (PRL) levels and PRL response to TRH stimulation were studied in 49 patients with endometriosis (EM) during mid-luteal phase. Eight cases with other gyn-diseases and 14 normal fertile women served as controls. Th…