Given new developments in the field of adolescent reproductive health, this review focuses on highlighting new guidelines and practice patterns in evaluation and management of adolescent gynecologic problems. First, understanding the proper techniques for the initial examination is key to establishing a long-term relationship with this age group. Reservations about the first gynecologic examina...

is devoted to factors which might have a deleterious effect upon apparently normal spermatozoa, with chapters on spermigration in the female secretions, special technics in spermatozoal study, the longevity of spermatozoa in vivo, the effect of temperature on the survival of spermatozoa in vitro, and abnormalities in the female which inhibit impregnation. There is a discussion of artificial ins...

Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium; Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium; Grenoble Outstation, European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Unit of Virus Host-Cell Interactions, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, BP181, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France; and Departm...

Si-Co diffusion coatings were prepared on a Y-modified TiAl-Nb alloy using the pack cementation process. The structures of at different temperatures (1050, 1080, and 1120 °C) Co contents (5, 10, 20 wt.%) comparatively studied. possessed typical structure (Ti,X)Si2+Ti5Si4 (X represents Nb Al elements) outer layer with Co-rich superficial zone, Ti5Si4+Ti5Si3 middle layer, TiAl2 inner layer. Incre...

1Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil 2Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Cascavel, West Paraná, Brazil 3Department of Gynecology, School of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 4Department of Gyne...

objective: to compare maternal complications and labor outcome in obese and non-obese women. materials and methods: it is a retrospective comparative study conducted at the department of obstetrics and gynecology, unit 1, civil hospital, karachi from december 2008 to december 2009. a sample size of 220 gravid women is selected by non probability convenience sampling technique. in these 110 obes...

in this paper, we discuss the present situation of laparoscopy in gynecology. there is no doubt that hospital stay, postoperative pain and convalescence are less when it is possible to treat gynecologic disease via laparoscopy. however, for reaching the final conclusion about the other effects of this kind of surgery, e.g., adhesion formation after operation, pregnancy rate, etc., a series of p...

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1 Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel, Belgium 2 School of Electronics and Telecommunications, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Dai Co Viet 01, Hanoi, Vietnam 3Department IWT, Erasmushogeschool Brussel, Nijverheidskaai 170, 1070 Brussel, Belgium 4Faculty of Science and Bio-Engineering Sciences (DINF), Vrije Universit...