Publications by authors named "B Sariibrahim"

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility, safety, and early postoperative outcomes of hysterectomies and salpingo-oophorectomies using transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOTES).

Materials And Methods: The women undergoing vNOTES hysterectomies and salpingo-oophorectomies at a tertiary referral medical center between April 2016 and April 2017 were retrospectively analyzed. In all of the vNOTES procedures, a handmade glove port system comprised of a glove-wound retractor NOTES port was used.

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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the plasma thrombin-tat fibrinolysis inhibitor antigen (TAFIag) levels in women with recurrent miscarriage (RM) and age-matched healthy parous women as controls.

Materials And Methods: A total of 80 patients were enrolled in this study. As a study group (group 1), the authors evaluated 49 RM patients who had two or more consecutive abortions with unknown etiology before 12 weeks of gestation.

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Aim: Clinical and histopathological factors that affect lymph node involvement in cervical cancer and the prognostic importance of these factors were evaluated in this study.

Materials And Methods: A total of 179 patients were diagnosed with cervical cancer between January 2001 and June 2010 and were included in this study. The patients' charts were evaluated retrospectively and information was collected by reaching 89 patients and asking questions.

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Objective: This study aimed to analyze the correlation between the histopathologic results of excisional procedure and cervical punch biopsy and to investigate the accuracy rates of colposcopic punch biopsy and cervical cytology to detect cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) grade 2 and/or more severe lesions (CIN 2+).

Materials And Methods: Two hundred six patients who underwent excisional procedure in the gynecologic oncology clinic of the Zeynep Kamil Women and Children Diseases Education and Research Hospital between 2004 and 2011 were enrolled in a retrospective study.

Results: The correlation between the pathologic findings gained by excisional procedure and punch biopsy was weak ( p = .

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Background: A serious proportion of the patients with invasive cervical cancer can be women who have had abnormal smear findings known for at least 6 months.

Aims: The aims of the study were to evaluate the cervical cytohistopathologic correlation in the population studied, and to discuss the acceptability of immediate histological verification for minor Papanicolaou smear abnormalities.

Materials And Methods: A total of 443 patients who were admitted with abnormal smear results and had undergone immediate colposcopy, cervical biopsy and endocervical curretage in the gynecologic oncology clinic between the years of 2003-2009 were enrolled into the present retrospective study.

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