[Vitamin D receptor polymorphism in the group of postmenopausal women with low bone mineral density].

Objectives: Osteoporosis is a multifactoral disease with aetiology depending from the hormonal, environmental, and genetic factors. One of the suggested candidate gene involved in the pathogenesis is the polymorphic gene encoding for vitamin D receptor (VDR). VDR polymorphism was connected with bone mineral density (BMD) and correlated with onset of osteoporosis.

Fetal superior mesenteric artery blood flow velocimetry in normal and high-risk pregnancy.

The Aim: To record blood flow velocimetry in the fetal superior mesenteric artery in normal pregnancy and to evaluate if blood flow recordings in the vessel might predict adverse outcome in high-risk pregnancy.

Methods: The fetal superior mesenteric artery blood velocimetry was recorded in a cross sectional manner in 75 normal pregnancies between 27 and 41 weeks of gestation. Reference curves were performed for pulsatility and resistance indices.

[Bowen's disease: one of the types of vulvar intraepithelial neoplasm (VIN) III (four case reports)].

Vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia has been considered a problem of postmenopausal years, but its frequency appears to be increasing among younger women. Bowen's disease is a form of VIN III carcinoma in situ, that may appear clinically as pigmented lesions. This pathology mostly concerns younger women, and is probably connected with human papilloma virus (HPV) infection.

[Doppler ultrasonography for detection of pathologic changes in uterine body endometrium].

This study was conducted to evaluate the role of transvaginal color Doppler ultrasonography in detecting endometrial pathology in postmenopausal women A group of 140 women with abnormal postmenopausal bleeding was examined by TVS with color Doppler before D & C. Histopathologic and blood flow characteristics were evaluated. Abnormal blood flow characteristics were evaluated.

[Ectopic cervical pregnancy--conservative treatment with methotrexate].

Ectopic pregnancy regardless its localization always remains difficult diagnostic and therapeutical problem. Special attention is paid to cervical pregnancy because of its rare incidence and poor prognosis (even in this day and age maternal death rate is 40-45%). In this paper there has been reported the case of 38 years old patient, admitted to Dept of Gynecological Oncology with suspicion of alive cervical pregnancy.