In a retrospective study of women who had undergone pelviscopic hysterectomies in the last 2 years, we focused on postoperative cyclic spotting. Preoperatively, a regular, cyclic menstruation and a premenopausal sexual hormone constellation were common to all patients. In the first group (n = 29), spotting occurred only in association with two uterine anatomical varieties: uterine hyperflexion ...

Labor is a physiological event involving a sequential, integrated set of changes within the myometrium, deciduas, and uterine cervix that occur gradually over a period of days to weeks. Biochemical connective tissue changes in the uterine cervix appear to precede uterine contractions and cervical dilation, and all of these events usually occur before rupture of the fetal membranes. In other wor...

Reports of uterine cancer deaths that do not specify the subsite of the tumor threaten the quality of the epidemiologic appraisal of corpus and cervix uteri cancer mortality. The present study assessed the impact of correcting the estimated corpus and cervix uteri cancer mortality in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The epidemiologic assessment of death rates comprised the estimation of magnitude...

background: thromboembolism is the most important complication of cancers.the aim of this study was to determine d-dimer levels in benign and malignant tumors of the uterus, ovary and cervix. subjects and methods: this was a cross sectional study and it was conducted on 90 female patients referred to imam khomeini and arash hospitals because of uterine, cervical and ovarian tumors in 2013-2014....

BACKGROUND Congenital uterine malformations are the result of disturbances in mullerian duct development. In patients with recurrent miscarriage, the reported frequency of uterine anomalies varies widely, from 1.8% to 37.6%. There are reports in which cervical cerclage has been shown to prevent preterm labor in uterine anomalies. The aim of this study was to compare the role of cervical cerclag...

Since uterine cervical ripening is an active biochemical process similar in part to an inflammatory reaction, nitric oxide (NO) has been proposed as a key mediator of this event. However, the mechanism by which NO modulates human cervical ripening has not been fully elucidated. In the present study we investigated the presence of NO synthases in human uterine cervix by immunohistochemistry and ...

BACKGROUND Prior epidemiological evidences suggest that hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is linked to cancers other than hepatocellular carcinoma. This prospective hospital registry-based case-control study aimed to investigate the sero-epidemiological association between chronic HBV infection and various types of cancer. METHODS 95,034 patients with first-diagnosed non-hepatocellular malign...

Angiogenesis is essential for development, growth and advancement of solid tumors. Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 is recognized as an angiogenic factor in various tumors. This prompted us to study the clinical implications of COX-2 expression related to angiogenesis in uterine cervical cancers. There was a significant correlation between microvessel counts and COX-2 levels in uterine cervical cancers. ...

BACKGROUND There is a direct correlation between glycemic load and the risk of developing many malignant neoplasms. AIMS The aim of this study was to determine the plasma glucose levels in women with cervical cancer. METHODS The study included 177 women with anatomopathologically diagnosed uterine cervical cancer (stages 0-IV) treated between 1980 and 2008 at the Gynecology and Obstetrics o...

OBJECTIVE To determine the normal range of uterine cervix within 4-24 weeks of pregnancy and also assess whether variations are related to some selected extraneous human conditions. SETTING AND DESIGN This was a prospective study conducted in University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin, Nigeria, and Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation Health Centre, Warri, Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHOD...