background: premature ovarian failure (pof) is a common condition; its incidence is estimated to be as great as 1 in 100 by the age of 40 years. physiologic replacement of ovarian steroid hormones seems rational until the age of normal menopause. temporary return of ovarian function and pregnancy may occur rarely in women with pof. we report a case of pof who conceived during hormone replacemen...

background: to discuss the experience of diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cyst in infants. materials and methods: a retrospective review was conducted on 20 infants who suffered from ovarian cyst. results: there were no dysplasia ovarian was found in children which were preoperatively diagnosed simplex cyst. within thirteen children preoperatively detected mixed cystic-solid lesion, six cases...

Background: Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer in woman and the fifth most frequent cause of cancer death. Ovarian cancers are usually asymptomatic until metastasized, patients have advanced disease at diagnosis in more than 2/3 of the cases. Totally 75-80 % of ovarian masses are benign. The strongest patient related risk factor for ovarian cancer is increasing age. The most ovarian...

the present study investigated serum cortisol in response to postpartum ovarian resumption and luteal function. postpartum ovarian resumption was detected based on a rise in progesterone (p4) concentrations during three weeks after calving. twenty two holstein cows in a semi-closed dairy farm in qena city, egypt were used. the study was carried out from late march to early june; the period char...

Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy. The surface epithelial tumor is the most common type of ovarian cancer. Among these, the mucinous tumors account for 10-15% of ovarian tumors. Mucinous ovarian tumors are among the most difficult ovarian neoplasms for surgical pathologists to interpret. Mucinous tumors sometimes coexist with other surface epithelial tumors. Therefore, ma...

background: inhibin is a dimeric glycoprotein that has a depressive effect on the anterior hypophyse secretion. the level of this tumor marker is undetectable in menopause women. in patients with gynecological cancer, especially granulosa and epidermal-type (mucinous), ovarian cancers considerable increase in the serum level of inhibin has been reported. the increased level of inhibin has been ...

background and objective: ovarian tumors are among the most frequent pathologic conditions in gynecologic practice and a frequent cause of hospitalization and surgery. the aim of this study was to determine histologic distribution of benign operated masses especially functional ovarian cysts. material and methods: benign ovarian files of operated patients (2961 cases) in 20 tertiary and seconda...

Background The high effectiveness of vitrification, as a cryopreservation protocol, for human oocytes and embryos is shown, whereas data on human ovarian tissue are limited. This study aimed to assessment of follicular growth, ultrastructure, and apoptosis incidence in human ovarian tissue following vitrification/warming and after culture in the presence of LIF. MaterialsAndMethods Ovarian cort...