The successful surgical removal of a feminizing adrenal tumour in a postmenopausal woman is described. Most of these tumours are malignant and the pathological findings and the biological behaviour of the tumour frequently do not correlate, so that a careful follow-up is necessary. In the presence of vaginal bleeding in a postmenopausal woman endometrial carcinoma should be considered. If this ...

A 67-year-old man developed dermatomyositis. Investigation revealed an oat cell carcinoma of the lung. When he developed unilateral gynaecomastia this tumour was found to secrete gonadotrophins. The gynaecomastia disappeared after treatment with an anti-oestrogen--tamoxifen. This use of tamoxifen has not previously been described. Partial tumour regression was obtained with several cytotoxic dr...

trophins [OR 0.89 (95% CI 0.65±1.22)]. (Figure 2). In addition, recalculating the clinical pregnancy rate per cycle started after extracting the correct data from the paper of The European and Israeli Study Group on highly puri®ed hMG versus rFSH (2002) would result in OR 95% CI that reached unity, meaning that there is no statistically signi®cant difference between both types of gonadotrophins...

Literature retrieved from Pub Med database showed reports of 7 other cases of NLE following ovulation induction and IVF. Flare-up of lupus activity in women following ovulation induction is documented and rates are higher after gonadotrophins than after clomiphene therapy [3,4]. Awareness of this and its associated maternal and fetal complications will increase the safety of artificial reproduc...

Oligospermia in an otherwise clinically normal man, is one of the commonest conditions encountered in an infertility clinic. Medical management of oligospermia lags far behind expectations, and is still in an experimental stage. Efforts have been made to improve the semen picture of patients with the administration of hormones like testosterone, gonadotrophins or the ovulatory drug, Clomiphene ...