[Transudation and resorption--a physiologic process in the area of the vagina?].

We report about the histo-microscopical and electro-microscopical examinations to clearing up the transudation and reresorption. It was made the trial about to explain, because we found appointed substances in high concentration in the fluid of the vagina.

[Prognostic significance of lymph node metastases in operable cervix cancer of categories T1 and T2].

In a retrospective long term study the tumorbiological importance of metastases in lymph-nodes of cervix cancer have been examined. The base of this presentation consists of a follow up study of 855 patients suffering from cervix cancer (stage I 557 pat., stage II 298 pat.

[Special forms of ectopic pregnancy].

The symptomatology of acute intraabdominal and extrauterine bleeding presents a multiform picture. In the field of gynecology and obstetrics several other diseases are also observed besides the forms of ectopic pregnancies. - Among 554 ectopic pregnancies treated at our Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics between 1962 and 1981 we found 11 rare cases of these pregnancies: 2 cervical, 2 bilateral tubar, 5 primary intrafollicular ovarian, 1 primary, and 1 secondary abdominal pregnancy.

[Carcinoid tumors of the appendix and small intestine as unusual secondary findings during gynecologic operations in and outside of pregnancy].

Report is given on 9 patients suffering from a carcinoid observed at the Department of Gynecology of the Medical Academy of Erfurt from 1963 till 1982: one carcinoid of the small intestine with metastases and abdominal syndrome and eight cases with carcinoid of appendix. Two of these during pregnancy and the carcinoid of small intestine show the difficulties of the differential diagnosis and the possible combinations in face of gynecologic diseases. In 2 cases of carcinoid of the appendix during pregnancy the children didn't show any malformations.

[Cathepsin D activity in human ovarian carcinoma].

In the tissue of 54 ovarian carcinomas and 38 normal human ovaries the activity of cathepsin D was determined by means of the Anson-method. In ovarian carcinomas the mean activity of cathepsin D was 4515 pmol T/s/g tissue, in normal ovarian tissue only 2119 pmol T/s/g. The difference is significant (p less than 0,001).