Management of Pituitary and Adrenal Disorders in Pregnancy. Pregnancy in concomitant pituitary or adrenal disorders requires special medical attention and treatment since maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality may be increased. If previously known and adequately treated, pregnancy in Addison’s disease can take an inconspicuous course. However, it is associated with an increased rate of prem...

Recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA) is defined as the loss of pregnancy for at least two respectively times before fetus reaches twenty-four week pregnancy, and its causes are multiple, some which known, but 50% them still unexplained. Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), one autoimmune diseases that can cause blood clots lead to abortionor in first trimester pregnancy. The study included 44 women...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the anesthetic management for caesarean section of women during pregnancy with a cerebral tumor. It is a retrospective study which was done at the department of neurosurgery of the University Teaching Hospital of Fann and at the department of obstetrics of the University Teaching Hospital of Pikine in Dakar, from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2015, and includ...

Background: Papillary thyroid cancer occasionally occurs in women of childbearing age. As papillary microcarcinoma (PMC) rarely grows or becomes clinically apparent, observation without surgery is an appropriate strategy for patients with low-risk PMC. Human chorionic gonadotropin possesses weak thyroid-stimulating activity. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of pregnancy on PMC. Me...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Previous studies have suggested that the occurrence of pregnancy concomitantly with a diagnosis of breast cancer may affect the evolution of the neoplasia. The present study aimed to compare pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC) patients with non-pregnant cancer patients (controls) in relation to the time taken to diagnose the disease, tumor characteristics and mortali...

Pregnancy and maternal brain tumors are an infrequent finding and a rare clinical combination. We present a case of a pilocytic astrocytoma (PA) diagnosed during the second trimester of pregnancy. This tumor is rare and is usually diagnosed in children. The occurrence in an adult presents different challenges regarding the long term behaviour of the tumor. Brain tumors during pregnancy are usua...

Few reports have explored laparoscopic adnexal tumorectomy as a treatment for large and symptomatic ovarian leiomyomas during pregnancy. The current study presents the case of a patient with a large and symptomatic ovarian leiomyoma at 14 weeks of pregnancy. A laparoscopic adnexal tumorectomy was performed without complications. The laparoscopic management of large primary ovarian leiomyoma dur...

Tubal ectopic pregnancy (EP) in hysterectomised patient is uncommon. It has propensity to be overlooked. We report a rare case of missed tubal 46 years old patient. She presented with abdominal pain and adnexal mass on imaging. Diagnosis was only possible intraoperatively owing overlapping symptoms imaging features that ovarian tumor.

Ovarian germ cell tumor accounts for 18-26% of all ovarian cancers complicating pregnancy. This is a rare case mixed ovary, misdiagnosed antenatally as uterine fibroid. A 34-year-old primigravida at 37 weeks + 5 days POG came in latent labor. Term scan showed fibroid 11x 9cms posterior wall lower segment with central cystic area. She underwent emergency LSCS and delivered male baby weighing 2.0...

We present a case of spontaneous regression of a neuroendocrine tumor following pregnancy in the absence of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or alternative medicine (including herbal medicine). The diagnosis of a nonsecretory carcinoid tumor was confirmed using CT imaging, octreotide scan, and histology. Furthermore, serial imaging has demonstrated spontaneous regression of the carcinoid suggesting ...