Histomorphological Patterns of Endometrium in Infertility.

Background: Endometrium is the most sensitive indicator of ovarian function and endometrial biopsy is one of the most important investigations in infertility. The current study was carried out to investigate the histomorphological patterns of endometrium in infertile women and to compare the results with other similar studies.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study on 2,080 infertile women was carried out to find the incidence of various histomorphological patterns in hematoxylin-eosin stained sections of endometrium and compare them with other Indian studies.

Descriptive epidemiology of selected birth defects, areas of Lombardy, Italy, 1999.

Background: Birth defects are a leading cause of neonatal and infant mortality in Italy, however little is known of the etiology of most defects. Improvements in diagnosis have revealed increasing numbers of clinically insignificant defects, while improvements in treatment have increased the survival of those with more serious and complex defects. For etiological studies, prevention, and management, it is important to have population-based monitoring which provides reliable data on the prevalence at birth of such defects.

Comparison with manual registration reveals satisfactory completeness and efficiency of a computerized cancer registration system.

Automated software for cancer registration, called Open Registry and developed by ourselves was adopted by the Varese (population-based) Cancer Registry starting from 1997. Since the use of automated cancer registration is increasing, it is important to assess the quality and completeness of the automated data being produced. In this study, we assessed the completeness of the automatically generated data by comparison with a gold standard of all cases identified by manual and automatic systems for the year 1997 when the automated system was introduced, and the manual system was still in operation.

[High and low grade gastric epithelial dysplasia: clinical management, endoscopic assessment of p53].

Epithelial dysplasia is considered the only one true histological marker of gastric cancer. In the present study we have evaluated the real clinical importance of epithelial dysplasia divided into low-grade (70 patients, mean age 59.2 years) and high-grade (50 patients, mean age 58 years) dysplasia.