Background . With the increased use of combination antiretroviral therapy, mortality people living with HIV has decreased significantly, which led to an increase comorbidity and secondary HIV-related pathology in both adults also children adolescents infection. The incidence infection those general population varies significantly. aim To assess frequency range chronic comorbidities perinatal Me...

This study compares cancer incidence in the United States National Survey areas and Puerto Rico for the period of 1969 to 1974. There are several differences between the 2 areas. Puerto Rico has a higher incidence of cancer of the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, cervix uteri, vulva, and penis. The Survey areas have higher incidences of cancer of the colon, rectum, lung, corpus uteri, female...

BACKGROUND Total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) has demonstrated to be feasible and safe in the presence of very large uteri. However, it is currently difficult to establish the upper uterine weight limit for successful performance of a laparoscopic hysterectomy. CASE PRESENTATION Here we report the case of a TLH performed for a very large fibromatous uteri weighing 5320 g in a 40-year-old C...

Bimanual and recto-vaginal examinations were next carried out. The anterior wall of the vagina was very much elongated and the external os uteri was felt high up and with great difficulty. The posterior wall was however, bulging forward, was short and the posterior fornix was obliterated. The fundus uteri was not palpable anteriorly. Rectal examination confirmed the existence of a swelling in t...

or pieces of endometrium to the cheek pouch of hysterectomized animals significantly reduces the length of induced pseudopregnancy from 18 to 13\m=.\5 days (Caldwell, Mazer & Wright, 1967). These authors also reported that transplanting rat uteri to the cheek pouch also reduced pseudopregnancy in hysterectomized hamsters (14\m=.\8days), whereas the effects of transplanting rabbit uteri (15\m=.\...

Patients with mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma often have multiple sites of disease at initial diagnosis or during the clinical course. The neoplasms at multiple sites are often presumed to be identical, indicating dissemination or relapse. However, evidence to support this presumption is usually not available. We compared IGH VDJ sequences in 4 patients with 2 sequential sites...

Benign multicystic peritoneal mesothelioma (BMPM) is rare and difficult to diagnose before surgery. We report a case of BMPM incidentally discovered during laparoendoscopic single site surgery (LESS) for treatment of a pelvic mass. A 47-year-old Korean menopaused woman presented to our outpatient clinic with a pelvic mass. She had a history of right ovary cystectomy with adhesiolysis at a local...

BACKGROUND Recently detorsion has replaced salpingo-oophorectomy as treatment for the twisted ischaemic adnexa. This paper asssess whether the ovary resumes normal function after preservation by detorsion. METHODS The results of detorsion performed between January 1988 and December 2001 were retrospectively analysed. Post-operative complications and subsequent ovarian function were assessed i...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the magnitude and patterns of visits to the emergency department (ED) for problems related to the eye and ocular adnexa. METHODS The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey was used to obtain information on ED visits in the United States for conditions of the eye and ocular adnexa in 1993. Patients were identified by International Classification of Diseases,...