Background: Hypothyroidism is associated with a wide spectrum of reproductive disorders ranging from abnormal sexual development, menstrual irregularities, and infertility. The present study was conducted to assess thyroid in age group.Materials Methods: 84 women group 15-45 years were divided patients into 2 groups 42 each. Group I II other than disorders. Parameters such as parity, menarche, ...

A 64-year old female patient, with no underlying diseases, was examined by a gynaecologist physician, presenting a postmenopausal metrorrhagia for one month. The oral tolerance and bowel habit remained normal in a basis daily. Neither previous traumas nor surgical or invasive studies were recorded by patient. Physical examination revealed well condition, no fever, and hemodynamic stability. His...

Irregular dysfunctional bleeding of the endometrium (ie, metrorrhagia without organic lesion) is common in women, whether treated or not with ovarian hormones. Several matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) become normally expressed and/or activated at menstruation and cause extracellular matrix breakdown. We therefore explored whether episodes of irregular dysfunctional bleeding could be associated ...

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecological cancer in the Western world. It affects mainly postmenopausal women. The aim of our study is to report the experience of the radiotherapy department of the National Oncology Institute (INO) in the treatment of endometrial cancer. We retrospectively analyzed 52 cases of endometrial cancer treated in the INO radiotherapy department between 2007-...

BACKGROUND Adnexal torsion (AT) is difficult to diagnose and requires immediate surgery. The aim of this study was to develop a simple score for assisting in the pre-operative diagnosis of AT in women with acute pelvic pain. METHODS Using data from a retrospective cohort of 142 patients with acute pelvic pain, we developed a score based on multiple logistic regression after a jackknife proced...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to identify the incidence, diagnosis, therapeutic and histological particularities of molar pregnancies and to evaluate our management of gestational trophoblastic tumors (GTT) according to the recommendations of FIGO. METHODS This was a retrospective study of 90 patients who were diagnosed with molar pregnancy from January 1991 to December 2007. After remis...

BACKGROUND: Ovarian sex-cord stromal tumors (SCST) take up 5% of the ovarian neoplasm and may develop into an ovarian mass or a haemoperitoneum. The surgical management of SCST in early-stage adult patients is not well defined. CASE REPORT: A 69 year-old postmenopausal woman was admitted for metrorrhagia, a right ovary mass and increasing pelvic pain. Preoperative clinical and instrumental exam...

A 35-year-old woman came to our hospital on November 22, 2010, after the onset of unilateral blurred vision and scotomata, purpuric rash over bilateral lower limbs, and metrorrhagia for four days. She had visited Vietnam for 11 days and fever, chills, and headache subsequently developed one day after returning to Japan. Fever and headache subsided six days after onset of disease. Laboratory dat...

OBJECTIVES To examine the clinicopathologic profile of leiomyoma in surgically removed uteri in a rural tertiary care hospital of north India between January 2008 and August 2012. METHODS Fibroids are the most common benign tumors of reproductive-age women, with the genital tract being the most common site for tumors. The type of fibroids and secondary changes were confirmed by histopathologi...