Chinese IUD removal techniques in a Chinese population in central Italy.

Objective: To describe routine techniques and a newly developed approach to the removal of Chinese intrauterine devices (IUs).

Methods: Office records regarding women of Chinese nationality who presented to a tertiary care hospital for IUD removal between January 2007 and March 2012 were retrieved. Their demographic data were reviewed and menstrual/obstetric history, IUD type, and reasons given for removal were recorded.

[Rokitansky-Mayer syndrome: correction of total vaginal agenesis using partial skin graft].

The Mayer-Rokitansky syndrome is a spectrum of mullerian anomalies, including vaginal agenesis with or without renal anomalies, in genotypic and phenotypic female subjects with normal endocrine status. We describe the management of a patient with this syndrome. We also propose a modified corrective method of the vaginal agenesis by a partial skin grafting.

Infertility clinic at Consolata Hospital, Nkubu Kenya (1987).

Data regarding 266 cases of couple infertility were reviewed in the Infertility Clinic of Consolata Hospital, Nkubu, Meru, between January and December 1987. Of these, 132 were cases of primary infertility and 134 of secondary infertility. 218 women with primary and secondary infertility were investigated with tubal insufflation with the result that 163 (74.