MD. Physician in the Breast Group of the Department of Gynecology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo — Escola Paulista de Medicina (Unifesp-EPM), São Paulo, Brazil. MD. Physician in the Department of Gynecology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo — Escola Paulista de Medicina (Unifesp-EPM), São Paulo, Brazil. MD, PhD. Chief professor of Gynecology, Mastology Sector, Department of Gynecology, Uni...

a Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China b Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA c Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, USA hCG Reference Service and Dagger Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Albuquerque, NM...

perglycemic nonketotic hyperosmolar coma may even ensue. Increased steroid levels are not the only factor promoting diabetes in cancer patients; infection, inactivity, emotional stress, intravenous glucose, and high carbohydrate diets also increase the tendency toward hyperglycemia. Multiple reviews have emphasized the importance of intensive insulin therapy in hospitalized patients,2–5 and sev...

MD, PhD. Head of Laparoscopic Surgery Group, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil. MD. Attending physician, Laparoscopic Surgery Group, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil. Medical student, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de S...

Emergency contraception could reduce the number of unintended pregnancies by 1.7 million. The best approach to oral contraception is education and not limitation, but it is unlikely that there will be any increase in contraceptive availability in the near future. Routine ultrasonography in low-risk pregnancies does not appear to be cost-effective.

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) can be considered as the greatest surgical innovation over the past 30 years. It revolutionized surgical practice with well-proven advantages over traditional open surgery: reduced surgical trauma and incision-related complications, such as surgical-site infections, postoperative pain and hernia, reduced hospital stay, and improved cosmetic outcome. Nonetheless,...

-1 /T ANY motilers bring their young .Lv1 daughters to the pediatrician because tiley have noticed a discharge on the Chlilds underclothing. Most of such discharges are notiling more than desquamation of tile epithehial cells at perhaps a more rapid pace than usual. Such a discharge, commonly referred to as “whites,” occurs normally ill the adult female. No pathologic is involved in either tile...

Robotic surgery is the most dynamic development in the sector of minimally invasive operations currently. It should not be viewed as an alternative to laparoscopy, but as the next step in a process of technological evolution. The advancement of robotic surgery, in terms of the introduction of the Da Vinci Xi, permits the variable use of optical devices in all four trocars. Due to the new geomet...

1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Balikesir, Balikesir, Turkey; 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cumhuriyet, Sivas, Turkey; 3 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Firat, Elazig, Turkey; 4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,...