Sharp Versus Electric Suction Curettage in Gynecologic Patients Undergoing Evaluation for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding.

Study Objective: Suction curettage is preferred over sharp curettage in obstetric settings. We compare the quality of operative tissue sampling between sharp curettage and suction curettage using electric vacuum aspiration for nonobstetric abnormal uterine bleeding in reproductive-aged women.

Design: A retrospective cohort study.

Monomorphous angiocentric glioma: a distinctive epileptogenic neoplasm with features of infiltrating astrocytoma and ependymoma.

We present 8 examples of a neoplasm with features of both astrocytoma and ependymoma that may represent a distinct clinicopathologic entity. The cerebral hemispheric tumors occurred in patients that were 3, 4, 12, 14, 15, 26, 30, and 37 years of age. All presented with seizures that, with the exception of 2, began in childhood.