INTRODUCTION Actinomycosis is a chronic bacterial infection caused by Actinomyces, Gram-positive anaerobic bacteria. Its symptomatology imitates some malignant pelvic tumours, tuberculosis, or nocardiosis, causing abscesses and fistulas. Actinomycoses are opportunistic infections and require normal mucous barriers to be altered. No epidemiological studies have been conducted to determine preval...

OBJECTIVE To assess the utility of a less invasive approach to the care of women with a pelvic abscess, we retrospectively reviewed the outcome of women with pelvic abscesses managed by transvaginal ultrasound-guided aspiration. METHODS A retrospective analysis of 27 pelvic abscesses in 22 consecutive women undergoing transvaginal drainage, including 13 tuboovarian abscesses (TOAs) and 14 pos...

Pelvic lipomatosis is an uncommon benign disease that causes different symptoms due to the compression of pelvic organs by an intrapelvic overgrowth of mature fatty tissue. Engels first described the condition in 1959 [1]. The aetiology of the disease has not been established. However, it has been speculated that the fat proliferation might be associated with chronic pelvic inflammation due to ...

Background: The aim of this study was to find out different causes of female infertility with diagnostic approach using laparoscopy and hysteroscopy. Methods: This retrospective study was done in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of MGMCRI, Puducherry. 135 infertile women aged 19-40 years were enrolled retrospectively for combined laparoscopy and hysteroscopy. These infertile women we...

introduction: the use of traditional medicine has been emerged in the treatment of bps (bladder pain syndrome) due to its high prevalence and expenses and its insufficient treatment by conventional therapies. iranian traditional medicine has discussed such diseases. considering the signs and symptoms of bps and “reeh”, the proposed mechanism of flatulency as casualty of recurrent circulating pa...

PURPOSE To analyze the effectiveness of anterior pelvic plating and subsequent percutaneous sacroiliac joint screw fixation in patients with unstable pelvic ring injuries. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-two patients were included with twenty-one males and eleven females. The mean age was 41 years (range, 19-76). The mean follow-up period was 51 months (range, 36-73). According to AO-OTA classif...

BACKGROUND Acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a major gynecologic health problem in the United States, afflicting more than 1 million women each year and generating annual direct and indirect costs estimated at $4.2 billion. Family physicians can play an important role in the prevention, as well as diagnosis and treatment, of PID. METHODS A MEDLINE search for articles published from 1...

The aims of this study are, first, to determine the incidence of heterotopic ossification (HO) in patients with cerebral palsy (CP) who have undergone pelvic and/or proximal femoral osteotomies and, second, to identify any risk factors that may contribute to its development in this patient population. The radiographs of 219 consecutive patients with CP who underwent proximal femoral osteotomies...

BACKGROUND Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is the result of infection ascending through the endocervix to the uterus and fallopian tubes. Inflammation driven by infected host cells appears to be central to the development of tissue damage and associated reproductive complications. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs) therefore have the potential to reduce the sequelae associated wit...