OBJECTIVE Assessment of 12-month safety of ospemifene 60 mg/day for treatment of postmenopausal women with vulvar and vaginal atrophy (VVA). METHODS In this 52-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group study, women 40-80 years with VVA and an intact uterus were randomized 6 : 1 to ospemifene 60 mg/day or placebo. The primary objective was 12-month safety, particularly...

Endometrial polyps (EPs) are a common cause of abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women and are typically suggested by a screening transvaginal ultrasound. In addition, the increasing use of pelvic imaging often discloses asymptomatic EPs. In the past, saline infusion sonography (SIS) has been advocated in order to triage patients to undergo a blind curettage o...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To study the accuracy of hysteroscopy in evaluation of abnormal uterine bleeding and to correlate hysteroscopic findings with histopathologic findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective study was carried out in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at AVBRH and JNMC, Sawangi (M), Wardha, from May 2006 to September 2008. One hundred cases were selected for this stud...

Embryo implantation requires healthy uterine endometrium for natural or assisted reproductive technology conception. However, in presence of any endometrial anatomical abnormality disease, is affected. Uterine polyps are over growths cells that extend into the cavity. They usually noncancerous. There can be one many polyps. range size from a few millimeters to several centimeters larger. may ca...

inorganic polyphosphates (polyp) are linear polymers of few to several hundred orthophosphate residues, linked by energy-rich phosphoanhydride bonds. four isolates had been screened from soil sample. by maldi-tof analysis, they were identified as bacillius cereus, acinetobacter towneri, b. megaterium and b. cereus. the production of polyp in four isolates was studied in phosphate uptake medium ...

Background: The aim of the study was to evaluate the histopathological pattern of endometrium in perimenopausal women presenting with abnormal uterine bleeding. Methods: This prospective study was carried out from June 2014 to May 2015 in a tertiary care teaching hospital on 180 number of perimenopausal women who presented with abnormal uterine bleeding. Results: Most of the patients were betwe...

Morular metaplasia is an unusual type of metaplastic change, often observed in numerous endometrial lesions. It has been considered a variant squamous and mulberry-like appearance. lacks the characteristic histopathological features conventional differentiation hence their relationship with each other not clearly defined. These lesions are usually seen along pre-malignant malignant glandular en...

INTRODUCTION Intussusception of the appendix is an extremely rare condition that ranges from partial invagination of the appendix to involvement of the entire colon. Endometriosis is an exceptionally rare cause of appendiceal intussusception and only very few cases have been reported in the literature to date. CASE PRESENTATION A 40 year-old woman presented to clinic with a long history of lo...