Objective The objective of the study was the laparoscopic evaluation of the incidence of intraabdominal adhesions related to prior abdominal surgery. Study Design This was a prospective monocentric study including…
Objective Reports exist in which cellular leiomyomas (CLs) appear to have clinical characteristics or genetic profiles similar to leiomyosarcomas. This study aimed to determine whether most CLs differ clinically from…
Objective The objective of the study was to characterize women undergoing a termination of pregnancy (TOP) during the second trimester and to evaluate the risk factors and timing of repeat…
Objective The purpose of this study was to compare clinical outcome and health related quality of life (HRQOL) 5 years after uterine artery embolization (UAE) or hysterectomy in the treatment…
Choosing to use mesh in vaginal reconstructive surgery for pelvic organ prolapse or stress urinary incontinence is perplexing in the face of recent US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warnings….
Advances in modern medicine invite the assumption that medicine can control human biology. There is a perilous logic that leads from expectations of medicine’s control over reproductive biology to the…
Women who have delivered an infant between 16 and 36 weeks’ gestation have an increased risk of preterm birth in subsequent pregnancies. The risk increases with more than 1 preterm…
We have read with great interest the article by Chéreau et al regarding the comparison of peritoneal carcinomatosis scoring methods to identify patients with advanced ovarian cancer (AOC) for optimal…
I read with interest the article of Durnwald et al. Contrary to our prospective evaluations, in a retrospective analysis they found that 17-alpha-hydroxyprogesterone (17P) caproate did not affect cervical length…
In a recent editorial Caughey addressed the optimal timing of intervention when the second stage of labor is long. He stressed that the duration norms drawn from Emanuel Friedman’s “notorious”…
