Three-dimensional sonographic diagnosis of abdominal wall endometriosis: a useful tool?

Objective: To report the usefulness of three-dimensional (3D) ultrasonography for the assessment of parietal endometriosis.

Design: Case report.

Setting: Academic research hospital.

[Risk factors of mesh exposure after transvaginal repair of genital prolapse].

Objectives: We analysed the risk factors of vaginal surgery of pelvic organ prolapse with non resobable prothesis.

Patients And Methods: This is a continuous, retrospective study of the 208 patients who had surgery between 2003 and 2007. Depending on the localisation of the prolapse, they had a prothesis under the bladder and/or a posterior tape through the sacrospinous ligament.

[Shoulder dystocia: a ten-year descriptive study in a level-III maternity unit].

Objective: Shoulder dystocia is one of the most dreadful complications of vaginal deliveries. The aim of this observational study was to evaluate risk factors of dystocia, maternal and neonatal complications and recurrent risk factors.

Patients And Methods: Sixty-six cases of shoulder dystocia occurring between January 1998 and August 2008 in our university hospital were identified.

[Water-electrolyte abnormalities during pregnancy: maternal and fetal complications (about a case)].

Water-electrolyte abnormalities while pregnancy or for infant are very serious. We present a case of a woman at 26 weeks who had gestation pernicious vomiting that led to major extracellular dehydration, water intoxication and acute renal insufficiency. The etiology was a volvulus on common mesentery.