Background: Cervical pregnancies are a rare form of ectopic pregnancy. They frequently present with hemorrhage and require hysterectomy to control bleeding. Their incidence may be higher with in vitro fertilization than previously considered.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLuteinizing hormone (LH) receptor knockout animals have an ovarian failure due to an arrest in folliculogenesis at the antral stage. As a result, the animals have an infertility phenotype. The present study was undertaken to determine whether this phenotype could be reversed by orthotopic transplantation of wild-type ovaries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To describe a case of XY gonadal dysgenesis with Tanner stage 4 breast development in the absence of a hormone-producing gonadal neoplasm and with Graves' disease and low bone mass.
Methods: The clinical features, laboratory results, and cytogenetic findings in the patient are presented, and the potential mechanisms of breast development are discussed. A MEDLINE search was performed, and related articles in the English-language literature published between 1955 and 2001 were reviewed.