There is significant discrepancy between original pathology and formal pathology review in endometrial cancer that has implications for guidelines at a population level.
C-reactive protein serum levels are associated with prognosis in patients with endometrial cancer.
In patients with stage IC-II endometrioid uterine cancer without lymphadenectomy, radiation treatment marginally improved survival; however, after excluding those without hysterectomy, no significant benefit was found.
Women with chronic pelvic pain have enhanced pressure-pain detection on pelvic floor examination.
In women with a placenta previa, an increasing number of prior cesarean deliveries is associated with increased frequency of adverse maternal, but not perinatal, outcomes.
Reduced fertility observed after cesarean delivery is primarily voluntary.
Higher rates of primary cesarean delivery at term are associated with rising obstetric professional liability insurance premiums.
Clinical reports and hematologic data suggest marked improvement for more than 80% of women with postpartum hemorrhage after recombinant activated factor VIIa administration.
Both hysterectomy and endometrial ablation are effective in treating dysfunctional uterine bleeding, although hysterectomy (as the index surgery) is associated with more adverse events and endometrial ablation with additional surgery.
Hysterectomy, even with a source of estrogen, seems to be a "risk" state for diminishing physical function at midlife.
The use of a catheter, instead of a Q-tip, in the evaluation of urethral hypermobility results in reduced angles of excursion from resting to Valsalva maneuver.
The pattern of arterial blood vessels on the myomas suggests that regardless of the direction of the myomectomy incision, injury to these vessels could occur.
Addition of mifepristone in second-trimester termination inductions using misoprostol after feticidal digoxin significantly reduces the abortion time interval and misoprostol dose needed to complete abortion.
In this randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial among 739 patients at risk for preeclampsia, there was no benefit from vitamins C plus E supplementation.
The risk of preeclampsia in the second pregnancy depends not only on BMI in the index pregnancy, but also on BMI before the previous pregnancy.
The increased risk of small-for-gestational-age observed in singletons born after infertility treatment may, at least in part, be attributed to the underlying infertility.
Reduced maternal monocyte major histocompatibility complex Class II expression and diminished tumor necrosis factor-{alpha} response to in vitro lipopolysaccharide stimulation was found in term and preterm labor.
Using spinal analgesia increases the success rate of external cephalic version among nulliparous women from 32% to 67%.
Constipation, measured using the Rome II criteria, affects up to one fourth of women throughout pregnancy and at 3 months postpartum.
Maternal smoking status does not affect quantitative levels of cell-free fetal and total DNA levels in maternal plasma from the second trimester of pregnancy.
Most surveyed obstetricians believed neonatal herpes warrants systematic prevention.
The use of prescription contraceptives increased between 1995 and 2002, most significantly among privately insured women.
Advance provision of emergency contraception does not seem to reduce pregnancy rates on a population level, nor does it negatively affect sexual behavior.
Direct-to-consumer advertising of genetics testing, an increasingly prevalent phenomenon, is poorly regulated and fraught with potential pitfalls for patients and physicians.
Certification involves physician competence, whereas ultrasound practice accreditation addresses issues like equipment calibration, transducer disinfection, examination protocols, and qualifications of nonphysician personnel.
Blunt tip surgical needles reduce the risk of needlestick injury and should be more widely used.
The patient at high risk for the development of breast cancer needs to be identified and offered appropriate imaging, chemoprevention, and surgical prophylaxis.
Peritoneal tuberculosis may present with ascites and elevated serum CA 125, highly suggestive of advanced-stage epithelial ovarian cancer.
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