Oncocytic and tall columnar type papillary thyroid carcinoma arising on a mature cystic teratoma: A case report and literature review.

Mature cystic teratoma (MCT) is the most common germ cell ovarian tumour, which accounts for 15-20% of all ovarian neoplasms. The frequency of MCT cases undergoing malignant transformation ranges from 0.17% to 2%.

Emergency peripartum hysterectomy: A retrospective study in a tertiary care hospital in Turkey from 2007 to 2015.

Postpartum haemorrhage is the most important cause of maternal morbidity and mortality, especially when all conservative measures, including syntometrine oxytocin and Bakri balloons have failed to accomplish haemostasis and expeditious surgical procedures, such as uterine artery ligation and emergency peripartum hysterectomy (EPH) are required. This retrospective study analysed 31 cases of EPH performed between January 2007 and January 2016 in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Izmir Ataturk Teaching and Research Hospital. All hysterectomies performed for bleeding not responding to other treatments within 24 h of vaginal delivery or caesarean section (CS) were included.

Diagnosis of Chronic Kidney Disease Based on Support Vector Machine by Feature Selection Methods.

As Chronic Kidney Disease progresses slowly, early detection and effective treatment are the only cure to reduce the mortality rate. Machine learning techniques are gaining significance in medical diagnosis because of their classification ability with high accuracy rates. The accuracy of classification algorithms depend on the use of correct feature selection algorithms to reduce the dimension of datasets.

An interesting prenatal diagnosis: double aneuploidy.

Double aneuploidy, the existence of two chromosomal abnormalities in the same individual, is a rare condition. Early diagnosis of this condition is important to offer termination of pregnancy in genetic counselling. Cytogenetic analysis with amniocentesis and ultrasound examination is valuable for diagnosis of double aneuploidy.

A giant cystic leiomyoma mimicking an ovarian malignancy.

Introduction: Leiomyoma of the uterus is the most common type of tumor affecting the female pelvis and arises from uterine smooth muscle. The size of leiomyomas varies from microscopic to giant; giant myomas are exceedingly rare. We report an unusual case of a large, cystic, pedunculated uterine leiomyoma mimicking a primary malignant ovarian tumor on sonography and CT.

Preoperative serum CA 125 level in the prediction of the stage of disease in endometrial carcinoma.

Objective: To evaluate whether a preoperative serum CA-125 level in patients with endometrial carcinoma can provide additional information in determining the stage of disease, and which cutoff value is optimal in this respect.

Study Design: Retrospective chart review of 147 women with pathologically proven endometrial carcinoma who were treated between January 1999 and May 2009. The associations of preoperative CA-125 levels with the tumor stage, histologic type and grade, and the lymph node positivity were examined.

Efficacy of electrosurgical bipolar vessel sealing for abdominal hysterectomy with uterine myomas more than 14 weeks in size: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To compare electrosurgical bipolar vessel sealing with conventional suturing during abdominal hysterectomy.

Methods: This was a randomized controlled prospective study. A total of 88 patients with myoma uteri larger than 14 weeks in size were divided into two groups: group A (44 patients who were administered the LigaSure vessel sealing system during surgery) and group B (44 patients who were administered conventional sutures during surgery).

3D web based learning of medical equipment employed in intensive care units.

In this paper, both synchronous and asynchronous web based learning of 3D medical equipment models used in hospital intensive care unit have been described over the moodle course management system. 3D medical equipment models were designed with 3ds Max 2008, then converted to ASE format and added interactivity displayed with Viewpoint-Enliven. 3D models embedded in a web page in html format with dynamic interactivity-rotating, panning and zooming by dragging a mouse over images-and descriptive information is embedded to 3D model by using xml format.

The effect of body mass index value during labor on pregnancy outcomes in Turkish population (obesity and pregnancy outcomes).

Purpose: We investigated the relation between body mass index (BMI) value during labor and pregnancy outcomes in a group of Turkish population.

Methods: The data on 9,112 singleton pregnancies were reviewed retrospectively. Patients were classified into three groups according to their BMI values: normal (BMI 20-25 kg/m(2), n = 5,685, 62.

Axillary lymph node metastasis from serous ovarian cancer: a case report and review of the literature.

Introduction: The symptoms and findings of ovarian cancer are parallel with the degree of intra-abdominal expansion of the tumor. Metastases in the early stage occur by peritoneal fluid's tracking via the circulatory system. Renal and cerebral metastases of ovarian cancer have been previously reported, but axillary lymph node metastasis is quite rare.

Does manual removal of the placenta affect operative blood loss during cesarean section?

Objective: To investigate whether manual removal of the placenta is associated with significantly more blood loss compared to spontaneous separation of the placenta during cesarean section.

Study Design: This was a randomised study of 200 women with normal pregnancies undergoing cesarean section. Patients were randomly assigned to the study group, manual removal (n=100) or the control group, spontaneous separation (n=100).