OBJECTIVE To determine whether placental laterality and discordant uterine artery impedance during pregnancy is a random event or the result of uterine artery pathology. METHODS We identified 50 patients with unilateral placenta and pathologic uterine artery impedance during their current pregnancy and enrolled them in the study. Thirty-three of these patients met the inclusion criteria and r...

Women patients admitted to a district general hospital with non-gynaecological conditions were offered a cervical smear test. In three years 2296 women were tested. Serious uterine pathology was detected in 13 patients (5.7 per 1000) and significant cytological abnormalities (dyskaryosis of all grades) in 46 (20.0 per 1000). Of the women screened 963 (41.9%) had never had a smear test before an...

1 Turkan Cengiz1, Fahriye Kılınç2, Hatice Isık1, Refika Selimoğlu1, Handan Yılmaz3 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mevlana (Rumi) University Faculty of Medicine, Konya, 2Department of Pathology, Mevlana (Rumi) University Faculty of Medicine, Konya, 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey Abnormal Uterine Bleedings ...

This overview describes and illustrates the clinical applications of three-dimensional transvaginal sonography in reproductive medicine. Its main applications include assessment of uterine anomalies, intrauterine pathology, tubal patency, polycystic ovaries, ovarian follicular monitoring and endometrial receptivity. It is also useful for detailed evaluation of failed and/or ectopic pregnancy. T...

BACKGROUND Pelvic pain is a common gynecologic problem. We report a case of a noncommunicating accessory uterine cavity as a cause of pelvic pain in a young adolescent. CASE A 17-year-old nulligravida presented with worsening pelvic pain. Transvaginal ultrasound revealed a 3-cm cavity within the myometrium. Hysteroscopy revealed a normal uterine cavity. Surgical excision of the accessory cavi...

Uterine pathologies are found to be present in 25% of infertile patients [2] . Structural abnormalities of the uterus, such as leiomyoma, endom etrial polyps, intrauterine adhesions (IUAs), adenomyosis and mullerian anomalies, may affect the reproductive outcome adversely, by interfering with implantation or causing spontaneous abortion. Therefore, exclusion of any uterine pathology becomes an ...

The diagnosis of uterine and/or tubal pathology as causes of female infertility represents a fundamental step in the evaluation of the infertile couple. Apart from the invasive diagnostic procedures, several others diagnostic techniques useful to the clinical evaluation of the uterine cavity and tubal anatomy are: transvaginal sonography (TVS), hysterosalpingography (HSG), hysteroscopy and hydr...

Much of our knowledge of human uterine physiology and pathology has been extrapolated from the study of diverse animal models, as there is no ideal system for studying human uterine biology in vitro. Although it remains debatable whether mouse models are the most suitable system for investigating human uterine function(s), gene-manipulated mice are considered by many the most useful tool for me...

Abnormal uterine bleeding, the most common symptom of gynecological disease, is defined as menorrhagia or metrorrhagia. The former term applies only to an excessive loss of blood during the menstrual period. This loss may be evidenced in one of several ways: by an excessive menstrual flow, by a prolongation of the flow beyond the usual time limits, by a too frequent recurrence of the flow, or b...

Introduction: Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is considered as one of the most common problems both to the patient and the gynecologist. Until the pathology underlying atypical uterine bleeding is accurately diagnosed, proper therapy is hardly possible. The objectives of the study were to determine the types and frequencies of pathologies in endometrial curettings of abnormal uterine bleeding &...