A 22-year-old patient with 9 months of amenorrhea and a huge abdominal swelling was admitted to our institution with an ultrasonography report of a multiloculated cystic space-occupying lesion, almost taking up the whole abdomen (probably of ovarian origin), along with a single live intrauterine fetus. She delivered vaginally a boy baby within 4 hours of admission without any maternal complicat...

This study was carried out to assess the different ovarian transplantation sites after short-time autografting. Female rats were randomized into five groups, with six rats in each group, including control (intact), cervical subcutaneous transplanted (CST), back subcutaneous transplanted (BST), subfascial transplanted (SFT) and intramuscular transplanted (IMT) groups. In all experimental groups,...

In recent years, preservation of fertility in women has been of great importance, especially in patients exposed to deleterious conditions on fertility. Thus, cryopreservation of human gametes, embryos and ovarian tissue has become an essential part of assisted reproduction. This approach limits the number of embryos transferred, while supernumerary oocytes and/ or embryos can be used in subseq...

Cryopreservation of intact human ovary with its vascular pedicle—or cryopreservation of hemiovaries? Sir, We read with interest the manuscript of Bedaiwy et al. (2006) entitled 'Cryopreservation of intact human ovary with its vas-cular pedicle', but feel there are some important details that the authors need to address for a clearer understanding of their work. First, we do not agree with the t...

The evaluation of ovarian reserve, often critical for the elderly infertile woman, is notoriously difficult and inaccurate. The place of ovarian biopsy in this evaluation has been hotly disputed for three decades, but not resolved. To examine the feasibility of ovarian biopsy for this purpose, a project was designed to estimate the total number of oocytes in a human ovary and investigate whethe...

A 48-h treatment with vinyl acetate (0.05-1 mM) induced a drastic increase in sister chromatid exchanges (SCEs) and (in first division cells) structural chromosome aberrations in cultured human lymphocytes. The effects were more pronounced in cultures of isolated lymphocytes than in whole-blood cultures. A distinct dose-dependent induction of SCEs similarly occurred in Chinese hamster ovary cel...