Ascites is a pathologic accumulation of fluid within the peritoneal cavity, and usually develops as a result of liver disease, congestive heart failure or nephrotic syndrome. Ascites is also a common manifestation of some gynecologic diseases. It is important that health care workers consider gynecologic problems among the potential differential diagnoses in patients presenting with ascites. Va...

Ovarian cancer is the most common pediatric gynecologic malignancy. When diagnosed in children, ovarian cancers present unique challenges that differ dramatically from those faced by adults. Here, we review the spectrum of ovarian cancers found in young women and girls and discuss the biology of these diseases. A number of advances have recently shed significant new understanding on the potenti...

Accumulated evidence over the past 10 years has strongly indicated that the fallopian tube is the site of origin for many high-grade serous carcinomas (1), which represent 50% to 60% of all epithelial ovarian cancers. This multi-origin model of ovarian cancer development has important implications for prevention of ovarian cancer: if some or all high-grade serous tumors develop in the fallopian...

background: ovarian cysts are among the diseases which cause reproductive failure and economic losses in dairy herds. high yelding dairy cattles are suseptable to reproductive failure caused by ovarian cysts, as a result of their exposure to stressful coditions during lactation. objectives: this study aimed to monitor metabolic profile tests in dairy cows with ovarian cysts in comparison with c...

The usefulness of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) for the quantitative evaluation of ovarian reserve has been established. Therefore, serum AMH has been recently applied to the assessment of ovarian reserve outside infertility treatment. We conducted a computer-based search, using keywords, through the PubMed database from inception until May 2014 and summarized available studies evaluating ovaria...

Ovarian follicular development is dependent on the actions and interactions of the pituitary gonadotropins, FSH and LH, and the ovarian steroid hormone, estradiol. Agents which might block the effects of these hormones would increase follicular atresia and reduce fertility. In addition, any substance toxic to the oocyte and its normal pattern of growth and meiosis would lead to reduced numbers ...