pelvic inflammatory disease (pid) is a rare complication of transvaginal oocyte retrieval. it may result in failure of assisted reproductive techniques (art). during a 7 years period, 5958 transvaginal ultrasound-guided oocyte retrievals resulted in 10 cases of acute pid. eight out of 10 patients were diagnosed infertile because of endometriosis. two patients had mild ovarian, 3 had stage iii, ...

Copyright: © 2012 Zheng W et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. In 2012, it is estimated that 22,280 new cases of ovarian carcinoma will be diagnosed in the United States, with 15500 associate...

PURPOSE Our study was designed to evaluate promoter CpG island hypermethylation in the diagnosis and prognosis of prostate cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Primary prostate cancers from 53 patients, pelvic lymph nodes, noncancerous prostate tissues, and prostate cell lines were analyzed. Real-time methylation-specific PCR was used to identify CpG island hypermethylation at five promising gene loci...

Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) has become a standard technique in radiation therapy for treating different types of cancers. Various class solutions have been developed for simple cases (e.g., localized prostate, whole breast) to generate IMRT plans efficiently. However, for more complex cases (e.g., head and neck, pelvic nodes), it can be time-consuming for a planner to generate ...

A 41-year-old female patient presented to our nuclear medicine department for initial staging of her known gastric cancer. A couple weeks earlier, the patient was diagnosed with a gastric cancer by endoscopic biopsy. She had complained of recent increasing abdominal and pelvic pain and was experiencing bloating, especially after meals. Physical examination showed nothing with the exception of s...

BACKGROUND Meigs' syndrome is defined as the co-existence of benign ovarian fibroma or fibroma-like tumor, ascites, and pleural effusion. In contrast, pseudo-Meigs' syndrome is defined as the co-existence of other ovarian or pelvic tumors, ascites, and pleural effusion. In Meigs' and pseudo-Meigs' syndromes, ascites and pleural effusion resolve promptly after the complete resection of the ovari...

CONTEXT Hospitals that treat a relatively high volume of patients for selected surgical oncology procedures report lower surgical in-hospital mortality rates than hospitals with a low volume of the procedures, but the reports do not take into account length of stay or adjust for case mix. OBJECTIVE To determine whether hospital volume was inversely associated with 30-day operative mortality, ...

Background. Systemic sclerosis is a rare, chronic, multisystem, and autoimmune disease. There is an overall increased risk of malignancy in patients with systemic sclerosis. However, multiple cancers of the female genital tract in patients with SSc are a very rare event. Our aim is to present a case of SSc and multiple cancers of the female genital tract, with prolonged survival following curre...

PURPOSE Inherited ovarian cancer carries a serious prognosis. Prophylactic oophorectomy has been advocated. The degree to which inherited ovarian cancer is restricted to BRCA mutation carriers is not fully known. We wanted to determine the prevalence of BRCA mutation carriers in women at high risk from ovarian cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Healthy women who were found to be at increased risk ju...