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February 2013
The prognosis for women with locally advanced primary or recurrent gynecologic malignancies is poor especially when the tumor extends to the pelvic sidewall or involves lymphatic dissemination to pelvic or para-aortic lymph nodes. In as many as 60% of patients with cervical or endometrial cancer, local...
by International Journal of Gynecological Cancer 2013
Birth weight is an important predictive parameter for neonatal morbidity and mortality. Particularly in fetuses with breech presentation, accurate estimation of fetal weight is extremely important for assessing the possibility of successful external cephalic version [, ] or vaginal delivery .
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by Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics 2013
Acute pulmonary thromboembolism (PE) is a cardiovascular emergency associated with significant morbidity and a 5-35 % mortality for untreated pulmonary embolism [, ]. If promptly diagnosed and treated, the mortality rate can be reduced to 2-10 % . Risk factors for this condition include disease...
by Emergency Radiology 2013
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), with a mean incidence of 1 in 3,000 births, can be diagnosed in the prenatal period either as part of other anomalies or as an isolated birth defect . It is potentially a lethal birth defect involving herniation of abdominal contents into the thoracic cavity through...
by European Radiology 2013
Prenatal maternal bonding must be old as mankind but is first mentioned in modern literature by Deutsch in 1945. Bonding during pregnancy seems a good predictor of the mother–newborn relationship and is regarded as a necessary element for the process of motherly care.
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by Prenatal Diagnosis 2013
Ultrasound‐derived elastography has been successfully applied in the diagnosis and classification of breast and thyroid tumors , lymph nodes , prostate cancer and diffuse/focal liver disease , and has recently been introduced in obstetrics...
by Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology 2013
The management of advanced gynecological malignancies generally consists of a combination of treatment modalities, specifically surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. A thorough assessment of the response to treatment should help to optimize disease management, and may result in reduced morbidity,...
To evaluate for the presence of risk factors (RFs) for preterm birth (PTB) in women without prior PTB having second trimester cervical length (CL) screening, and to estimate the utility of RF screening.
Methods “Low-risk” singletons were prospectively screened with midtrimester transvaginal...
by Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine 2012
January 2013
The cesarean delivery rate in the United States has continued to increase each year from 1996, going from 20.7% in that year to 32.9% in 2009. In the same interval, the percentage of women with a prior cesarean delivery who attempted a trial of labor in a subsequent pregnancy decreased from 28.3% to...
by Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology 2012
In the last decade childbirth‐related injuries of the levator ani muscle (LAM) complex have been under the spotlight of research using a number of modalities, investigating the aetiology of pelvic floor dysfunction. With the use of dynamic imaging such as pelvic MRI and 3D–4D translabial...
by Neurourology and Urodynamics 2012