Unnamed: 0 int64 0 10.4k | id int64 0 10k | text stringlengths 166 4.02k | label stringclasses 23
values |
|---|---|---|---|
4,800 | 6,450 | Ultrasonographic assessment of placental abnormalities.
Current ultrasonographic techniques offer a novel approach for the identification of a wide variety of placental abnormalities usually described postnatally by the pathologist.
Placental vascular lesions, placental tumors, and abnormal placentation are potential... | C13 |
4,801 | 3,415 | Primary carcinoma of the upper urinary tract. Effect of primary and secondary therapy on survival.
The pathologic material and medical records of 76 patients with primary upper urinary tract carcinomas were reviewed to identify the role of grade and stage in predicting survival; to determine any differences in surviva... | C13 |
4,802 | 3,926 | High-output left ventricular failure after dextran use in an operative hysteroscopy.
High-output left ventricular failure occurred in a patient after a difficult case of hysteroscopic lysis of adhesions using dextran as a distension medium.
The excessive dissection in the uterine wall, the long duration of the operat... | C13 |
4,803 | 2,524 | Sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency virus infection among women with pelvic inflammatory disease.
Both human immunodeficiency virus infections and pelvic inflammatory diseases are sexually acquired illnesses of great consequence to women.
This study was undertaken to determine if women hospitaliz... | C13 |
4,804 | 3,611 | Postpartum hemorrhage: placenta accreta, uterine inversion, and puerperal hematomas.
Puerperal hematomas, although rare, can be potentially morbid or life-threatening events.
Early surgical management, including clot evacuation, layered closure, drainage, antibiotics, and fluid replacement (including blood), usually ... | C13 |
4,805 | 7,063 | Epidemiology of pelvic inflammatory disease in parous women with special reference to intrauterine device use.
Up to the end of 1989, 206 parous women in the Oxford Family Planning Association contraceptive study had been referred to hospital with a first episode of pelvic inflammatory disease.
Of these, 65 suffered ... | C13 |
4,806 | 518 | Pregnancy after in vitro fertilization in a patient with stage I endometrial carcinoma treated with progestins.
A 35-year-old woman with chronic anovulation and bilateral tubal disease was found during infertility evaluation to have grade I endometrial carcinoma confined to an endometrial polyp.
She was treated with ... | C13 |
4,807 | 3,908 | Endocervical chlamydial deoxyribonucleic acid in infertile women.
The presence of chlamydial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was evaluated by DNA hybridization in endocervical cells of infertile and normal fertile women.
Chlamydial DNA was detected in 49 of 186 (26.3%) infertile patients, which is significantly more comm... | C13 |
4,808 | 6,424 | Detection of congenital toxoplasmosis by chorionic villus sampling and early amniocentesis.
We describe a strategy used in this case to detect congenital toxoplasmosis early in pregnancy.
Combination of chorionic villus sampling and early amniocentesis with an in vitro cell culture technique makes prenatal diagnosis ... | C13 |
4,809 | 7,065 | Middle cerebral artery flow velocity waveforms in fetal hypoxaemia.
In 81 small-for-gestational age fetuses (SGA) colour flow imaging was used to identify the fetal middle cerebral artery for subsequent pulsed Doppler studies.
Impedence to flow (pulsatility index; PI) was significantly lower, and mean blood velocity ... | C13 |
4,810 | 7,957 | Repair of the uterine cavity after hysteroscopic septal incision.
We performed a follow-up hysteroscopy with multiple biopsies at different intervals after surgery in 19 women who underwent hysteroscopic septal incision.
Seven days after operation the sectioned areas were very evident and not epithelialized (3 patien... | C13 |
4,811 | 6,439 | Hyperadrenergic orthostatic intolerance as a result of postpartum blood loss.
This article describes a young women in whom orthostatic intolerance developed as a result of protracted postpartum vaginal bleeding.
The cardiovascular abnormalities were unresponsive to usual treatment measures, and she required combinati... | C13 |
4,812 | 8,748 | Measurement of activity of urea resistant neutrophil alkaline phosphatase as an antenatal screening test for Down's syndrome.
OBJECTIVE--To investigate the value of measuring maternal urea resistant neutrophil alkaline phosphatase activity as an antenatal screening test for Down's syndrome.
DESIGN--Case-control study... | C13 |
4,813 | 6,301 | Survey of histologic specimens of human cancer for human papillomavirus types 6/11/16/18 by filter in situ hybridization.
Histologic specimens (317) of genital and nongenital cancers and normal tissue were analyzed for the presence of the DNA of human papillomavirus (HPV) 6, 11, 16, and 18 by filter in situ hybridizat... | C13 |
4,814 | 7,594 | Genital and anal conditions confused with child sexual abuse trauma.
Examination of a child with genital or anal disease may give rise to suspicion of sexual abuse.
Dermatologic, traumatic, infectious, and congenital disorders may be confused with sexual abuse.
Seven children referred to us are representative of suc... | C13 |
4,815 | 7,786 | Serum concentrations of CA 125 and aminoterminal propeptide of type III procollagen (PIIINP) in patients with endometrial carcinoma.
Serum CA 125 (a marker of coelomic epithelial cells) and aminoterminal propeptide of type III procollagen (PIIINP; an indicator of collagen metabolism) concentrations were measured in 14... | C13 |
4,816 | 6,740 | Nonsurgical management of breast infections in nonlactating women. A word of caution.
Management options for infectious mastitis have traditionally been limited to surgical drainage.
With the advent of percutaneous fine needle aspiration (FNA), nonoperative treatment may be an alternative, though criteria for use hav... | C13 |
4,817 | 9,267 | Caesarean section in a patient with haemoglobin SC disease and a phaeochromocytoma.
The anaesthetic management of a patient with haemoglobin SC disease for lower segment Caesarean section and excision of a phaeochromocytoma is described.
The patient was given a general anaesthetic for the surgical procedure after exc... | C13 |
4,818 | 2,541 | Postpartum osteomyelitis caused by group B streptococcus.
Postpartum infections caused by group B streptococci are generally limited in scope.
We report a case of vaginal colonization with group B streptococcus that progressed in the postpartum period to osteomyelitis that necessitated total hip replacement.
The pat... | C13 |
4,819 | 9,852 | The establishment of an ovum donation program using a simple fixed-dose estrogen-progesterone replacement regimen.
Most ovum donation (OD) programs involve cycle synchronization between recipient and donor for normally cycling recipients and a complex estrogen-progesterone replacement regimen for recipients with ovari... | C13 |
4,820 | 9,139 | Endometriosis of the abdominal wall.
Endometriosis of the abdominal wall typically occurs as a painful mass in a lower abdominal incision from previous cesarean section or hysterectomy.
Most patients are young and in their active reproductive years.
The histologic diagnosis requires a combination of either endometri... | C13 |
4,821 | 3,253 | Serum CA 125 levels during the menstrual cycle.
Serum concentrations of CA 125 were measured in different phases of the menstrual cycle in 16 women with ovulatory and 12 women with anovulatory cycles.
CA 125 levels were significantly elevated during menstruation in both groups.
In women with anovulatory cycles, but ... | C13 |
4,822 | 4,804 | Long-term sequelae of conservative treatment by surgery, brachytherapy, and chemotherapy for vulval and vaginal rhabdomyosarcoma in children.
Between 1970 and 1978, 17 girls with rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) of the vulva or vagina were treated at the Institut Gustave-Roussy (IGR) by conservative treatment including surgery,... | C13 |
4,823 | 2,389 | Small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of Bartholin's gland.
A small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma that arose in Bartholin's gland in a 30-year-old woman is reported.
The tumor had light, electron microscopic, and immunohistochemical features typical of pulmonary small cell carcinoma and was metastatic to inguinal lymph... | C13 |
4,824 | 2,527 | Continuing controversy in alloimmune thrombocytopenia: fetal hyperimmunoglobulinemia fails to prevent thrombocytopenia.
Two patients with severe alloimmune thrombocytopenia were managed by weekly intrauterine platelet transfusions at 25 to 36 weeks.
In one patient high-dose immunoglobulin was also administered weekly... | C13 |
4,825 | 6,442 | Screening for trisomy 21 with ultrasonographic determination of biparietal diameter/femur length ratio.
Ultrasonographic determination of biparietal diameter/femur length ratios performed at 16 or 17 weeks' gestation in fetuses with trisomy 21 were not statistically different from those of 155 normal fetuses.
It appe... | C13 |
4,826 | 4,359 | Vulvar melanosis.
Vulvar melanosis is a condition in which intensely pigmented irregular macules, clinically mimicking malignant melanoma, appear on the vulva.
A biopsy specimen shows only marked lower epidermal pigmentation without any melanocytic atypia or nesting.
The process is benign, and reassurance is the onl... | C13 |
4,827 | 4,215 | Management of deep venous thrombosis in the pregnant female.
Deep venous thrombosis of the lower extremities is an uncommon but dreaded complication of pregnancy which can present diagnostic and therapeutic problems to the treating physician.
From January 1, 1985, to December 31, 1988, 7867 deliveries were performed ... | C13 |
4,828 | 2,564 | Fetal and maternal response to intravenous infusion of a thromboxane synthetase inhibitor.
Pharmacologic inhibition of thromboxane synthetase activity has reversed the clinical manifestations of toxemia in the ovine model.
To investigate placental transfer and fetal effects of a selective thromboxane synthetase inhib... | C13 |
4,829 | 514 | Genitourinary mycobacteria in infertile Egyptian men.
Forty infertile patients with a preliminary diagnosis of genitourinary tuberculosis were selected for our study when they presented with one or more of the following: (1) personal or family history of tuberculosis, (2) sterile pyuria, (3) voiding urinary symptoms, ... | C13 |
4,830 | 2,536 | Spontaneous infarction of placental chorioangioma and associated regression of hydrops fetalis.
We report a case of a large chorioangioma diagnosed prenatally with concomitant meconium peritonitis and hydrops fetalis in the second trimester.
Spontaneous regression of the tumor occurred, associated with some resolutio... | C13 |
4,831 | 4,319 | Sodium lauryl sulfate-induced irritant contact dermatitis in vulvar and forearm skin of premenopausal and postmenopausal women.
Reactivity of the skin of the forearm and labia majora to three concentrations (2%, 3%, 5%) of sodium lauryl sulfate was studied in 20 healthy women, 10 premenopausal and 10 postmenopausal.
... | C13 |
4,832 | 3,247 | Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura in pregnancy: a randomized trial on the effect of antenatal low dose corticosteroids on neonatal platelet count
OBJECTIVE--To determine the efficacy of antenatal low dose oral betamethasone in preventing neonatal thrombocytopenia and/or bleeding in infants of mothers with idiopathi... | C13 |
4,833 | 2,548 | Effects of intravascular fetal blood transfusion on fetal intracardiac Doppler velocity waveforms.
In 12 fetuses from pregnancies with red blood cell isoimmunization Doppler velocity waveforms were recorded at the level of atrioventricular valves immediately before and at 15-minute intervals for 2 hours after the intr... | C13 |
4,834 | 8,242 | Outcome of pregnancies experienced during residency.
To investigate potential adverse effects of residency training on pregnancy outcome, a cohort study was conducted among 45 university-affiliated residency programs.
Outcomes of the first pregnancy experienced during residency were compared between 92 female residen... | C13 |
4,835 | 504 | A serial section study of visually normal pelvic peritoneum in patients with endometriosis.
Defined criteria were used to select small samples of visually normal study peritoneum for serial section light microscopy in 45 patients with biopsy-proven endometriosis and 10 patients without endometriosis.
A glandular elem... | C13 |
4,836 | 9,600 | Anti TSH-receptor antibodies in pregnant patients with autoimmune thyroid disorder.
The study was designed to test further the usefulness of the radioreceptor assay of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) binding inhibitory immunoglobulins (TBII) and the bioassay of thyroid stimulating antibodies (TSAb) or TSH stimulated... | C13 |
4,837 | 8,277 | Vaginal removal of the pedunculated submucous myoma. Historical observations and development of a new procedure.
A new method of vaginal removal of submucous fibroids was attempted on 151 patients.
The procedure involves dilation of the cervix with Laminaria tents and removal of the submucous fibroid by grasping with... | C13 |
4,838 | 8,376 | Role of the placenta in perinatal transmission of HIV.
The role of the placental tissue in the perinatal transmission of HIV is still far from being understood.
Significant data regarding transplacental infection have been collected, but differences in technique have led to controversy.
It appears clear that many Ho... | C13 |
4,839 | 7,071 | The rate of rise of corticotrophin releasing factor and endogenous digoxin-like immunoreactivity in normal and abnormal pregnancy.
Maternal plasma concentrations of corticotrophin releasing factor (CRF) and endogenous digoxin-like immunoreactivity (EDLI) were estimated in 80 normal and 88 abnormal pregnancies which we... | C13 |
4,840 | 2,529 | Pregnancy-induced hypertension and acute fatty liver of pregnancy: atypical presentations.
Severe pregnancy-induced hypertension and markedly elevated levels of serum alkaline phosphatase developed in a 29-year-old-woman in whom one pregnancy resulted in intrauterine death.
Acute fatty liver of pregnancy developed wi... | C13 |
4,841 | 996 | Pelvic pain: lessons from anatomy and physiology.
Pelvic pain is often a difficult differential diagnosis in the emergency department.
For physiologic reasons, pain in the pelvis is difficult to localize to a specific organ, and pelvic peritonitis is hard to recognize.
On the other hand, differences in types of pain... | C13 |
4,842 | 6,438 | Management of selected cystic adnexal masses in postmenopausal women by operative laparoscopy: a pilot study.
Twenty-five postmenopausal patients were predicted to have benign masses by screening criteria that included ultrasonographic findings of a cystic adnexal mass less than 10 cm with distinct borders and no evid... | C13 |
4,843 | 3,920 | Effect of serum from patients with minimal to mild endometriosis on mouse embryo development in vitro.
Two-cell mouse embryos were cultured at 37 degrees C in 5% CO2, 95% air with a 7.5% serum supplement from patients with minimal to mild endometriosis, (group I, n = 31), tubal factor (group II, n = 33), male factor (... | C13 |
4,844 | 5,671 | The older adult. A comparative assessment.
Thorough assessment of older men and women is a complex but vital part of their health care.
The ability to differentiate the changes owing to normal aging from those resulting from pathologic processes is necessary if their lives are to be as productive and enjoyable as the... | C13 |
4,845 | 5,548 | Abnormal bleeding in the climacteric.
In the perimenopausal years, we encounter a situation where the normal diminution in reproductive capacity, with its resulting disruption of the normal menstrual hormonal pattern, coincides with a very real risk of pelvic pathology.
Limitation in the ability to diagnose and to tr... | C13 |
4,846 | 7,956 | Neosalpingostomy for distal tubal obstruction: prognostic factors and impact of surgical technique.
We reviewed the clinical records of all women who underwent microsurgical terminal neosalpingostomy for distal tubal obstruction between January 1983 and June 1988.
We identified 95 women whose preoperative evaluation ... | C13 |
4,847 | 8,317 | Pelvic inflammatory disease.
The costs of PID to both individuals and society are enormous.
Although primary prevention of PID through control of lower genital tract infections is the most effective prevention strategy, early diagnosis and treatment of acute PID may minimize some of its serious sequelae.
Although la... | C13 |
4,848 | 2,542 | Antenatal spontaneous perforation of the extrahepatic biliary tree.
Spontaneous perforation of the biliary system is an unusual neonatal phenomenon that is rarely recognized at birth.
To date, it has not been reported antenatally.
A 16-year-old pregnant adolescent had an ultrasonogram at 25 weeks of pregnancy that r... | C13 |
4,849 | 4,266 | Comparative study of the changes in insulin-like growth factor-I, procollagen-III N-terminal extension peptide, bone Gla-protein, and bone mineral content in children with Turner's syndrome treated with recombinant growth hormone.
Six girls (7-13 yr old) with Turner's syndrome and short stature were treated for 1 yr w... | C13 |
4,850 | 2,457 | Genitourinary cancer in the elderly.
The subject of genitourinary cancer in the elderly becomes increasingly more important as our population of patients older than 50 years expands.
Carcinoma of the kidney, bladder, and prostate all have an increasing incidence over the age of 50 and have a predilection for afflicti... | C13 |
4,851 | 8,308 | Chancroid and the role of genital ulcer disease in the spread of human retroviruses.
Chancroid is the most prevalent form of genital ulcer disease in developing countries and is undergoing a resurgence in industrialized countries.
As a result of a nonspecificity of the clinical findings, the etiologic diagnosis of ge... | C13 |
4,852 | 9,412 | Detection of HIV in fetal central nervous system tissue.
Neurological disease is a common finding in children with AIDS and in others without signs of disease but with evidence of congenital HIV-1 infection.
To investigate the possibility that HIV-1 can infect fetal central nervous system (CNS) tissue and therefore p... | C13 |
4,853 | 6,587 | Spinal catheter anaesthesia for caesarean section in a patient with spina bifida.
A patient with grossly deformed vertebral anatomy, scheduled for elective Caesarean section, expressed her wish to stay fully awake during the procedure.
Epidural anaesthesia was considered to be impracticable, while dural puncture appe... | C13 |
4,854 | 4,620 | Use of polymerase chain reaction for successful identification of asymptomatic genital infection with herpes simplex virus in pregnant women at delivery.
The polymerase chain reaction was adapted to the amplification of a herpes simplex virus (HSV) DNA sequence, common to HSV types 1 and 2 (HSV-1, HSV-2).
The amplifi... | C13 |
4,855 | 3,377 | Primary chemotherapy with or without radiation therapy and/or surgery for children with localized sarcoma of the bladder, prostate, vagina, uterus, and cervix. A comparison of the results in Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Studies I and II.
A major objective of the second Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study (IRS-II) (1978 t... | C13 |
4,856 | 9,606 | A morphological and immunological study of human placental bed biopsies in miscarriage.
Placental bed biopsies were examined in three groups of pregnant women for maternal vascular response to placentation as well as for the presence of cells associated with local immunosuppression activity.
In the group of women und... | C13 |
4,857 | 8,758 | Dilatation in the duplex kidney: 3 unusual cases.
Dilatation in the upper limb of a duplex ureter is usually secondary to obstruction and may be associated with a ureterocele.
By contrast, vesicoureteric reflux is the usual cause of a dilated lower moiety ureter.
We report 3 cases in which unusual or complex causes ... | C13 |
4,858 | 3,784 | Endometrioma. An intra-abdominal troublemaker.
A ten-year review of intestinal and abdominal wall endometriomas is reported.
Seven cases of intestinal and two cases of abdominal wall endometriomas are presented.
Symptoms were varied but a majority had some gynecologic complaint.
In this select group of patients, pr... | C13 |
4,859 | 8,753 | Ultrasonography compared with intravenous urography in the investigation of adults with haematuria
OBJECTIVE--To compare ultrasonography with intravenous urography in the investigation of adults with haematuria.
DESIGN--Prospective study entailing the examination of all patients with both investigations concurrently... | C13 |
4,860 | 3,906 | Oocyte retention after follicle luteinization.
Indirect evidence supports the existence of the luteinized unruptured follicle syndrome in infertile women.
To seek direct evidence of oocyte retention, infertile and normal women were studied in the early and midluteal phase by visual documentation of ovulation stigma, ... | C13 |
4,861 | 5,523 | Maternal mortality in the United States, 1979-1986.
To understand better the epidemiology and to describe the causes of maternal death, we reviewed all identified maternal deaths in the United States and Puerto Rico for 1979-1986.
The overall maternal mortality ratio for the period was 9.1 deaths per 100,000 live bir... | C13 |
4,862 | 6,415 | Antenatal microbiologic and maternal risk factors associated with prematurity.
In a prospective study of 202 women (gestational age 24 +/- 4 weeks), we evaluated possible influences of lower genital tract infection or bacterial conditions on obstetric outcomes, including preterm labor, preterm premature rupture of mem... | C13 |
4,863 | 234 | Flow cytometric DNA-ploidy analysis of synchronously occurring multiple malignant tumors of the female genital tract.
In this study the authors applied flow cytometric DNA-ploidy analysis to multiple female genital tract malignant tumors in 43 patients, most of whom (n = 37) had bilateral ovarian cancer.
An algorithm... | C13 |
4,864 | 8,836 | Stimulation of active renin release in normal and hypertensive pregnancy.
1.
Active plasma renin concentration but not total renin concentration is reduced in women with pregnancy-induced hypertension compared with normotensive pregnant women.
This study was conducted to determine whether women with pregnancy-induce... | C13 |
4,865 | 5,147 | HIV infection, pregnant women, and newborns. A policy proposal for information and testing. Working Group on HIV Testing of Pregnant Women and Newborns
As the public health impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in women and children has increased, so has interest in screening pregnant women and newbo... | C13 |
4,866 | 4,216 | Clinical review 15: Management of ovulatory disorders with pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone.
Pulsatile GnRH therapy has yet to achieve widespread acceptance as an alternative to exogenous gonadotropin therapy in women with hypothalamic amenorrhea and complete GnRH deficiency.
However, when a physiologically b... | C13 |
4,867 | 7,066 | Experience with a 'physiological' steroid replacement regimen for the establishment of a receptive endometrium in women with premature ovarian failure.
Eighteen women with a premature menopause underwent assessment of serial serum oestradiol (E2) and progesterone levels and endometrial histology and function.
Patient... | C13 |
4,868 | 5,257 | Hypersecretion of luteinising hormone, infertility, and miscarriage
The relation between prepregnancy follicular-phase serum luteinising hormone (LH) concentrations and outcome of pregnancy was investigated prospectively in 193 women with regular spontaneous menstrual cycles.
The group included 26 nulliparous and 16... | C13 |
4,869 | 2,537 | Ovarian pregnancy: a report of twenty cases in one institution.
A series of 20 cases of primary ovarian pregnancy that were diagnosed and treated in one institution is reported.
The prevalence rate of 1:3600 deliveries seems to be increasing in past years and comprises 3.3% of all extrauterine pregnancies.
Clinical ... | C13 |
4,870 | 6,510 | Prior cesarean delivery in women with secondary tubal infertility.
The history of cesarean delivery was evaluated in a population-based case-control study of secondary infertility in King County, Washington.
Sixty-one married women diagnosed with secondary infertility due to tubal problems who had a previous viable p... | C13 |
4,871 | 3,319 | Wegener's granulomatosis presenting during first trimester of pregnancy.
We describe a case of Wegener's granulomatosis in a lady who presented acutely with pulmonary haemorrhage, fever and breathlessness during her early pregnancy.
She responded well to aggressive medical treatment. | C13 |
4,872 | 8,279 | Prochlorperazine and transdermal scopolamine added to a metoclopramide antiemetic regimen. A controlled comparison.
Cisplatin-induced nausea and vomiting occurs both acutely and over a prolonged period of time.
These symptoms may be incapacitating and are frequently given as a reason to discontinue therapy.
We compa... | C13 |
4,873 | 2,246 | Staging of ureteral transitional cell carcinoma by CT and MRI.
Intravenous urography and retrograde pyelography are the primary radiologic studies for detecting ureteral carcinoma but give limited information regarding stage of disease.
Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) delineate the exten... | C13 |
4,874 | 3,100 | The effect of maternal ethanol infusion on placental blood flow and fetal glucose metabolism in sheep.
Intravenous infusion of 1 g ethanol/min over 1 hr to seven catheterised pregnant ewes decreased blood flow on both sides of the placenta.
The reductions in blood flow were maintained for at least 2 hr after the infu... | C13 |
4,875 | 2,003 | Can the status of tubal pregnancy be predicted with transvaginal sonography? A prospective comparison of sonographic, surgical, and serum hCG findings
Results of transvaginal sonography were compared prospectively with surgical findings and levels of serum human chorionic gonadotropin in 120 women with a proved tubal... | C13 |
4,876 | 5,055 | Nuclear morphometry as a prognostic indicator for genitourinary rhabdomyosarcoma: a preliminary investigation.
Rhabdomyosarcoma of the urogenital tract is a malignant mesenchymal tumor seen primarily in childhood.
Multimodal therapy, encompassing surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, has dramatically improved the s... | C13 |
4,877 | 7,958 | Ultrasound-guided transcervical metroplasty.
A new technique of metroplasty is described.
The septum is divided with 4-mm endoscopic scissors introduced into the uterine cavity through the cervix.
The whole procedure is monitored by a real-time ultrasound scanner.
Twenty-four patients were operated on with this tec... | C13 |
4,878 | 6,433 | The Maylard incision in gynecologic surgery
The transverse muscle-splitting Maylard incision was used in 175 gynecologic patients who required pelvic-abdominal surgery.
One hundred fifty-three patients (87%) had pelvic malignancy; other indications for operation included uterine myomas, endometriosis, tuboovarian ab... | C13 |
4,879 | 8,373 | Human immunodeficiency virus education and screening of prenatal patients.
Prenatal HIV education and testing requires access to many resources and is demanding of time and personnel.
Properly trained sympathetic on-site counselors are essential.
Such personnel may combine this role with other tasks but should have ... | C13 |
4,880 | 6,418 | Continuous or interrupted fascial closure: a prospective evaluation of No. 1 Maxon suture in 402 gynecologic procedures.
During a 14-month period of using a long-term absorbable suture (No.
1 Maxon), 402 patients were entered into a prospective, randomized trial of fascial closure.
Patients were randomized between a... | C13 |
4,881 | 6,407 | Human oocyte and preembryo donation: an evolving method for the treatment of infertility.
The utilization of oocyte and preembryo donation in the treatment of infertility has recently expanded.
Since 1983, modifications in the retrieval of donated female gametes have enhanced both the safety and the efficacy of the p... | C13 |
4,882 | 3,904 | Further observations on the doubling time of human chorionic gonadotropin in early asymptomatic pregnancies.
The doubling time (DT) of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in serum was investigated retrospectively using serial serum hCG values that had been obtained from asymptomatic pregnant women with a prior history ... | C13 |
4,883 | 2,528 | Laparoscopic ventrosuspensions. A review of 72 cases.
Laparoscopic ventrosuspension is simple to perform after diagnostic laparoscopy.
Serious postoperative complication is unlikely.
However, patient follow-up over 6 months has not confirmed the usefulness of laparoscopic ventrosuspension in the management of deep d... | C13 |
4,884 | 3,924 | Triplet tubal pregnancy treated by outpatient laparoscopic salpingostomy.
To our knowledge, this represents the first case of a laparoscopically treated triplet EP and the first time that a double EP in the same tube was treated conservatively (with preservation of the tube).
Multiple EPs may be more common than curr... | C13 |
4,885 | 3,245 | Failure to prevent preterm labour and delivery in twin pregnancy using prophylactic oral salbutamol
A double blind, controlled study was performed to see whether the use of prophylactic oral salbutamol would reduce the incidence of preterm labour in twin pregnancy.
Of the 144 women studied, 74 took salbutamol and 70... | C13 |
4,886 | 6,440 | Cervicovaginal microflora and pregnancy outcome: results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of erythromycin treatment.
Available information suggests that some instances of preterm birth or premature rupture of membranes are associated with clinically unrecognized infection and inflammation of the lower uteri... | C13 |
4,887 | 6,588 | Severe hypotension due to intramyometrial injection of prostaglandin E2
Treatment of postpartum haemorrhage because of uterine atony with intramyometrial prostaglandin E2 1 mg, in an anaesthetised patient resulted in life-threatening hypotension.
Anaesthetists should be aware of the potential cardiovascular side eff... | C13 |
4,888 | 8,377 | Human immunodeficiency virus infection in pregnancy.
Among an estimated 1 million to 1.5 million Americans infected with HIV, about 10 per cent are women.
Moreover, almost 30 per cent of HIV infection among women is acquired through heterosexual activity.
Therefore, the average obstetrician/gynecologist is not shelt... | C13 |
4,889 | 7,105 | Atenolol in essential hypertension during pregnancy
OBJECTIVE--To determine the effect of atenolol on the outcome of pregnancy in women with essential hypertension.
DESIGN--Prospective, randomised, double blind, placebo controlled study.
SETTING--Hospital clinic.
PATIENTS--33 Women with mild essential hypertension... | C13 |
4,890 | 7,461 | Hepatic infarction in preeclampsia.
Two cases of hepatic infarction in toxemia of pregnancy are described.
Both patients had associated laboratory findings of the HELLP syndrome (hemolytic anemia, elevated liver enzyme levels, and low platelet levels).
Computed tomography (CT) showed nonenhancing low-attenuation are... | C13 |
4,891 | 8,290 | Intrapartum cocaine use. A case report.
The use of cocaine during pregnancy appears to be reaching epidemic proportions.
In the first reported case of intrapartum cocaine use, fetal heart rate abnormalities were detected. | C13 |
4,892 | 6,435 | Direct ultrasonographic measurement of fetal lung length in normal pregnancies and pregnancies complicated by prolonged rupture of membranes.
Fetal lung length was measured directly with ultrasonography in 20 patients with prolonged rupture of membranes, commencing before 25 weeks' gestation.
Measurements were made w... | C13 |
4,893 | 7,440 | A new method for the dressing of free skin grafts.
Using adhesive drapes and a disposable suction drain, a new method for the dressing of free skin grafts has been devised.
The graft is compressed by pressure that is equivalent to the negative pressure of the suction drain.
This method can apply uniform and constant... | C13 |
4,894 | 9,857 | The value of hysteroscopy in elderly women prior to in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET): a comparative study.
Two hundred eighty-four hysteroscopies were performed in 312 (91%) candidates for in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) who were divided into two groups.
Group I consisted of elderly... | C13 |
4,895 | 8,858 | Expression of rat prolactin-like protein B in deciduoma of pseudopregnant rat and in decidua during early pregnancy.
The rat PRL-like protein-B (rPLP-B) complementary DNA (cDNA), originally cloned from a late term placental library, hybridizes to transcripts in the deciduoma tissue artificially produced in pseudopregn... | C13 |
4,896 | 7,934 | Home monitoring of gonadotropin ovulation induction using the Ovarian Monitor.
The safe use of gonadotropins relies on close hormonal and/or ultrasound monitoring to assess the response to treatment, requiring multiple hospital visits.
Home monitoring with the Ovarian Monitor (St.
Michael Research Foundation, Macleo... | C13 |
4,897 | 9,787 | Occurrence of human papillomavirus type 16 DNA in cutaneous squamous and basal cell neoplasms.
Sixty-eight cutaneous squamous cell neoplasms (in situ and invasive) and 26 basal cell carcinomas from 89 patients were analyzed for DNA sequences homologous to the human papillomavirus (HPV) types found predominantly in the... | C13 |
4,898 | 833 | Antigen specific serum antibody response to Chlamydia trachomatis in patients with acute pelvic inflammatory disease.
Sera from 35 patients with acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) with and without Chlamydia trachomatis confirmed by culture and sera from 19 control patients with neither evidence of pelvic infectio... | C13 |
4,899 | 5,515 | A randomized trial comparing two methods of cold knife conization with laser conization.
In a randomized study, 62 women were submitted to cold knife conization with application of Sturmdorf sutures, 60 to cold knife conization without sutures, and 61 to laser conization.
Early hemorrhage occurred in 1.6, 13.3, and 6... | C13 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.