Journal of family medicine and primary care

J Family Med Prim Care · ISSN (print) 2249-4863 · 36 papers in corpus
case-report 2021
doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2546_20 ·PMID:34760779

Leiomyoma is the commonest benign mesenchymal tumor of the uterus, which can be developed at any site where smooth muscle cells are found. The broad ligament is the most common and ovary is one of the rarest extrauterine sites, accounting f…

review 2020
doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1547_20 ·PMID:33681010

Mucocele of the appendix is a very rare disease entity that often discovered incidentally during surgery. It can result from both non-neoplastic and neoplastic lesions and histopathological examination is needed for confirmation. Failure to…

nonrandomized-trial 2020
doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_467_20 ·PMID:33102275

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In India, the uterine fibroid is a common indication of hysterectomy. An effective option for medical treatment may decrease the morbidity associated with hysterectomy. We aimed to evaluate the effect of mifeprist…

case-report 2019
doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_113_19 ·PMID:31041280

Dhoti is traditional Indian dresses worn by males in the Indian subcontinent to cover the lower parts of the body. The term Dhoti cancer was first used by Khanolkar and Suryabhai in 1945. It is a type of waistline SCC reported in Indian mal…

case-report 2019
doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_368_19 ·PMID:31334196

The purpose of this report is to describe a very rare case of bilateral tubo-ovarian filariasis with retroperitoneal extension in a 20-year-old female patient. The patient complained of low-grade fever with whitish cloudy urine. Computerize…

observational 2019
doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_496_19 ·PMID:31803655

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Endometriosis is a chronic and common disease in the world in which living endometrium stroma and glands are found outside the uterus. The presence of this tissue in different parts of the body causes various symptoms th…

observational 2019
doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_384_18 ·PMID:31041251

BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer is the seventh most common cancer in women in the world and Trinidad and Tobago is ranked 18th in the world with respect to the rate of occurrence. About 68% cases are diagnosed at a late stage, resulting in low s…

other 2019
doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_523_19 ·PMID:31803661

INTRODUCTION: Reproductive health of women is of special concern, especially during their reproductive years where the reproductive morbidity is very high, especially in countries like India. AIMS: This study was carried out to find the re…

review 2019
doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_717_19 ·PMID:31803641

Dysmenorrhea is a recurrent and chronic primary health care issue. Mefenamic acid and NSAID based therapy regimens have unwanted side effects on its long-term usage. NSAIDs reduce pain, albeit they do not address the enhanced pain sensitivi…

diagnostic-accuracy 2019
doi:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_142_19 ·PMID:31742171

OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed to extract apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values from the diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) sequence of endometrial lesions and compare them with tissue specimen results in order to determine the prec…

observational 2017
doi:10.4103/2249-4863.214991 ·PMID:29026742

BACKGROUND: As a part of a larger study for evaluating the effectiveness of a community-based family welfare program, this study assessed the contraceptive behavior of couples preceding sterilization and termination of pregnancies, if any d…