UNLABELLED Endometrial hyperplasia is a precursor to the most common gynecologic cancer diagnosed in women: endometrial cancer of endometrioid histology. It is most often diagnosed in postmenopausal women, but women at any age with unopposed estrogen from any source are at an increased risk for developing endometrial hyperplasia. Hyperplasia with cytologic atypia represents the greatest risk fo...

OBJECTIVE To assess the role of endometrial thickness on vaginal ultrasound assessment and menstrual history in predicting endometrial hyperplasia in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) who presented with infertility due to anovulation. METHODS This was a prospective study in a university referral-based fertility and endocrine clinic. Fifty-six women with PCOS presenting with infertil...

background: endometrial secretion analysis is a non-invasive and promising method in evaluation of endometrial receptivity. objective: the aim of the present study was to assess the relationship between the success rate of ivf procedures and some endometrial secretion cytokines, including interleukin-1β (il-1β), tumor necrosis factor (tnf-α), interferon gamma-induced protein 10 (ip-10), and mon...

background: stem cell factor (scf) is a transcriptional factor which plays crucial roles in normal proliferation, differentiation and survival in a range of stem cells. objective: the aim of the present study was to examine the proliferation effect of different concentrations of scf on expansion of human endometrial cd146+ cells. materials and methods: in this experimental study, total populati...

(i) What are the chief lesions associated with vascularization of the cornea ? (ii) To what extent do the various modes of vascularization facilitate a differentia! diagnosis ? (iii) Is there a demonstrable factor common to the lesions concerned ? (iv) What is the real significance of these adventitious vessels ? (v) Does experimental work throw any light upon the problem ? (vi) Is it possible ...

Homozygous mice with a null mutation in the MMP-9/gelatinase B gene exhibit an abnormal pattern of skeletal growth plate vascularization and ossification. Although hypertrophic chondrocytes develop normally, apoptosis, vascularization, and ossification are delayed, resulting in progressive lengthening of the growth plate to about eight times normal. After 3 weeks postnatal, aberrant apoptosis, ...

A 65-year-old male presented to us with symptoms of severe pain in right eye with loss of vision for 1 week. He had undergone a manual small incision cataract surgery elsewhere 2 weeks back. 48–72 hours post-surgery, his vision started decreasing and he presented to us in a state shown in the figure 1. On examination, a provisional diagnosis of post-operative endophthalmitis was made. The anter...