Clinical gynaecology

Clinical Gynaecology

Clinical Practice Gynaecology Committee

Objective: To identify the indications for hysterectomy, preoperative assessment, and available alternatives required prior to hysterectomy. Patient self-reported outcomes of hysterectomy have revealed high levels of patient satisfaction.These may be maximized by careful preoperative assessment and discussion of other treatment choices. In most cases hysterectomy is performed to relieve symptom...

Clinical applications of fibrinolytic inhibition in gynaecology.

'In healthy menstruation the blood which is discharged does not coagulate; in the irregular or unhealthy it does....' This observation on the non-coagulability of menstrual blood was made by John Hunter in 1794.1 A similar observation was made by Bell in 19122 on the composition of menstrual blood found in patients with haematocolpos. Over the past 20 years laboratory and clinical research has ...

Persian Gynaecology

THE history of the practice of medicine in Persia has been widely studied. Everybody knows at least by name the great clinicians Avicenna, Rhazes, and Haly Abbas. Even a few who lived after the Mongol Invasion are not unknown. The story of surgery in these regions is also better known now than it was thanks to a magnificent reproduction with miniatures in colour of Sharaf-ul-Din's translation o...

Medical Gynaecology

expanding world of molecular biology, increasing the level of complexity several-fold and redefining much along the way. It is obvious, then, that a short and readable book dealing with the basics of rheumatology, yet doing so without sacrificing necessary detail in its brevity, would be invaluable to the student, general practitioner, or related professional. Lecture Notes on Rheumatology is s...