Retroperitoneal vascular aberrations increase the risk of vascular injury during lymphadenectomy in gynecologic cancers.

Purpose: To investigate the frequency of aberrations of retroperitoneal great vessels in patients with gynecologic cancers who were scheduled for pelvic and paraaortic lymphadenectomy, and to document the vascular complications which occurred during lymphadenectomy as well as the relationship of these vascular complications with vascular aberrations.

Methods: Patients with gynecologic cancers underwent a routine preoperative abdominal multi-detector computer tomography, and an intraoperative search for aberrations of the great vessels in the retroperitoneal region was undertaken. Intraoperative vascular complications were recorded and their relations to vascular aberrations were analyzed.

Conservative management of a retroperitoneal hemorrhage following a ruptured renal angiomyolipoma in pregnancy.

Retroperitoneal hemorrhage following ruptured renal angiomyolipoma is usually managed surgically or by embolization. But when the same episode occurs in pregnancy, surgery which predisposes to preterm delivery and its subsequent sequelae, the unknown influences of radiation exposure on the fetus makes the management of such cases very challenging. A 21-year-old woman was seen in the emergency unit at the 25th week of her pregnancy with complaints of sudden onset left flank pain radiating to the back, nausea and hematuria.

Hematocolpos causing severe urinary retention in an adolescent girl with imperforate hymen: an uncommon presentation.

Introduction: Hematocolpos is rarely presented as a pelvic mass which mechanically compresses the bladder and the urethra thereby causing urinary retention.

Case Report: A 12-year-old girl referred with the history of lower abdominal pain and retention of urine for 24 h. The patient had not started her menses yet.