the mainland from which it has been separated. Of no speciality is this more true than of gynaecology, which was the first dependency of general surgery to receive independent status. One of the most important borderland territories between surgery and gynaecology relates to the surgery and mechanism of the female pelvis and the pain which is referred to the back, sacrum and buttocks. The opera...

1 Reproductive Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slajmerjeva 3, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia 2 Genome Biology Unit and Proteomics Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany 3Division of Reproduction and Early Development, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health andTherapeutics, The LIGHT Laboratori...

Chief Executive, World Endometriosis Research Foundation, London, and Secretary General, World Endometriosis Society, London, UK Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Research Institute GROW, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Research Institute GROW, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands Is...

1Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia 2Nuffield Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Oxford Maternal & Perinatal Health Institute, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 3Pauline Gandel Imaging Centre and Perinatal Medicine Department, Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 4Royal Prince Alfred Hospital...

SYDNEY, Australia, Thursday 30 March 2017: Uscom Limited (ASX code: UCM) (the Company or Uscom) announced the publication of two new peer reviewed papers confirming the effectiveness of USCOM 1A for diagnosing pre-eclampsia and guiding hypertensive therapy in pregnancy. The publications were in the prestigious Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and authored by obstetrics and gynaecology s...

Consultant Gynaecologist, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool and Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK Specialist Registrar, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK Biomedical Scientist, Department of Biochemistry, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK Consultant Gynaecologist, Department of Gynaecolo...

There are many advantages to be derived from the use of extra-dural block in obstetrics and gynaecology. In the past many anaesthetists have been reluctant to make use of the method owing to the difficulty in accurately locating the extra-dural space, but with advances in technique this has been overcome and there has been a great increase in the use of this form of analgesia in recent years. O...

THE first reports of the use of the natural prostaglandins in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology appeared in 1968, initially for the induction of term labour in patients with fetal death and subsequently for patients with a live fetus. Since then numerous clinical reports have described the efficacy of using prostaglandins for this purpose administered by a variety of different routes and ...