Abstract Background: There are a large number of patients with penetrating abdominal trauma who have normal vital signs and negative abdominal examination when referred to trauma centers. Agreat deal of controversy exists between authorities about screening these patients for emergency explorative laparotomy. Many references have reported more than 90% sensitivity for DPL as a diagnostic metho...

congenital mullerian abnormalities, particularly the septate uterus, may result in recurrent abortion, premature labor and infertility. the purpose of this study is to report the surgical and reproductive outcome in two groups of patients who underwent hysteroscopic metroplasty (hmp). between aug. 1993 and march 1998,76 women underwent hmp in shiraz university of medical sciences' affiliat...

Cervical agenesis is a rare clinical condition presenting with primary amenorrhea and often associated other Müllerian duct malformations. Quick definitive surgical treatment essential in preventing later, severe complications associating consequential endometriosis. The unsuccessful series of operations result loss the uterus. major challenge approaches not to reconstruct flow menstrual fluid ...

The evidence of the efficacy of preoperative medical treatment with danazol, gonadotrophin releasing-hormone agonists (GnRHa) or progestins in facilitating surgery and improving the long-term results of myomectomy, hysteroscopic metroplasty and endometrial resection has been reviewed. Sixteen randomized and non-randomized controlled clinical trials, published in the English literature between 1...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to describe the surgical approach to, and evaluate the reproductive outcome of, a T-shaped uterus. METHODS The study included 97 women who were eligible for hysteroscopic surgery, by either monopolar or bipolar electrosurgical instruments. All had diagnostic hysteroscopy 2 months afterwards to assess the success of the procedure and determine whether any s...

BACKGROUND Small intrauterine lesions such as septum, adhesion, polyp, and submucous myoma may be of greater significance in causing implantation failure, poor reproductive performance and abnormal uterine bleeding. We studied effectiveness of therapeutic intervention through operative hysteroscopy in improvement of pregnancy outcome and cessation of abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) in women wit...