[Diagnostic hysteroscopy in abnormal uterine bleeding. Five-years' experience].

Background: Hysteroscopy has acquired a central role in the clinical diagnosis of intrauterine pathologies. This study evaluated the feasibility, procedure modality, tolerability, complications and diagnostic accuracy of hysteroscopy in the management of patients with abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB).

Methods: This retrospective study was carried out on 512 women (age range: 38-80 years, mean age: 63) with AUB who attended our hysteroscopy outpatient service from January 1996 to December 2001.

Endometrial lesions after tamoxifen therapy in breast cancer women.

Tamoxifen, a nonsteroidal antiestrogen with a partial estrogen-antagonist activity, is widely used as a hormonal adjuvant therapy for breast cancer in women with positive receptors for estrogens. Its prolonged administration has been associated with a series of collateral effects, among which the endometrial carcinoma is the most important. The aim of our study was to investigate an eventual correlation between a therapy with tamoxifen and the onset of endometrial lesions.

[Ovarian pregnancy after intraperitoneal insemination (I.P.I.)].

An observed case of ovarian pregnancy after intraperitoneal insemination (IPI) triggers a description of this new technique and a suggestion as to the possible dynamics of the ensuing ectopic pregnancy.

[The effects of lesions in several zones of the brain on cell multiplication in the glandular epithelium of the rat small intestine].

Radio-frequency lesions of tubero-infundibular region of the hypothalamus are followed by a significant increase of the mitotic rate in the small intestine glandular epithelium in rats. This increase does not occur when radio-frequency lesions are located in the anterior and posterior hypothalamus, in the dorsomedial thalamus and in the cerebral hemispheres.