The Austrian Sacrocolpopexy Registry: Surgical Techniques, Perioperative Safety, and Complications.

Study Objective: Sacrocolpopexy (SCP) has become the standard procedure to correct uterovaginal prolapse in women, but techniques and approaches are not standardized. We report the results of the Austrian Sacrocolpopexy Registry, which aimed to collect data on surgical techniques and perioperative outcomes.

Design: The Austrian Urogynecology Working Group initiated a registry to assess surgical variability and perioperative safety of SCP.

Compartment syndrome after gynecologic laparoscopy: systematic review of the literature and establishment of normal values for postoperative serum creatine kinase and myoglobin levels.

Purpose: To evaluate published evidence in the literature on compartment syndrome (CS) in association with gynecologic surgery and to establish postoperative normal values for serum creatine kinase (CK) and myoglobin.

Methods: The present study consists of a case report of a patient with CS, a systematic review including 37 studies and 86 patients with CS, and a retrospective cohort study of 300 patients undergoing various types of laparoscopy for benign or malignant diseases in order to establish postoperative normal values.

Results: We report on a patient with early-stage ovarian cancer, who developed CS after laparoscopic surgery with massively elevated serum CK and myoglobin levels, i.

Cervical biopsies and cytological smears - a comparison of sample materials in HPV diagnostics.

Background: Cervical cancer is causally related to cervical infections by oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes. To improve the quality of diagnosis evaluation of screening methods and their HPV type detection rate is an important part for this item.

Objectives: Two different cervical specimens of the same patients were analysed simultaneously with molecular HPV subtyping methods to find the most sensitive sample material for cervical cancer screening.

Intratumoral lymphocyte density in serous ovarian carcinoma is superior to ERCC1 expression for predicting response to platinum-based therapy.

Intratumoral immune cells and ERCC1 expression are likely to play a role in the response of ovarian carcinoma to chemotherapy, but their impact on therapy outcome is still unclear. Therefore, 41 cases of optimally resected high grade serous ovarian carcinomas were examined retrospectively for stromal and intraepithelial lymphocyte populations and ERCC1 status in relation to response to platinum-based therapy. Based on RECIST criteria, 27 patients were classified as responsive and 14 as therapy resistant, respectively.

Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the vulva, an underrecognized entity? Case report with a single inguinal micrometastasis detected by sentinel node technique.

This report describes an unusual EBV-negative lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma of the vulva in a 73-year-old patient. The lesion was localised at the right minor labium and was resected by partial vulvectomy. A synchronous sentinel lymph node biopsy revealed a single micrometastasis in the right inguinal region, which prompted local radiotherapy.