Patients' subjective assessment as a decisive predictor of malignancy in pelvic masses: results of a multicentric, prospective pelvic mass study.

Objective: The prognosis for ovarian cancer patients remains poor. A key to maximizing survival rates is early detection and treatment. This requires an accurate prediction of malignancy.

[Fetal version as ambulatory intervention].

The external cephalic version (ECV) of the fetus at term reduces the maternal and fetal risks of intrapartum breech presentation and Caesarean delivery. Since 1986 over 800 external cephalic versions were performed in the outpatient Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Städtische Frauenklinik Stuttgart. 60.

[Cervix reconstruction after amniotic fluid puncture in amniotic sac prolapse in the second trimester].

The possibility and the problems of an surgical technique because of cervical insufficiency in the 2. trimester with a hourglass amniotic prolapse is shown in three cases. A new concept including amniocentesis and doubleclerclage is developed with a wide physiological reconstruction of the cervix and its occlusion mechanism at the inner and outer cervix.