Is mediolateral episiotomy angle associated with postpartum perineal pain in primiparous women?

Objective: Our aim is to elucidate the relationship between mediolateral episiotomy (MLE) angle and postpartum perineal pain.

Methods: This study was designed prospectively. Primiparous women with MLE in the postpartum period were included in the study and divided into three groups according to episiotomy angle ranges (Group 1: <40°, Group 2: 40°-60°, and Group 3: >60°).

Vaginal epithelioid malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor nearly misdiagnosed as advanced cervical cancer: A case report.

A 56-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with a pathological diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix. We performed a re-biopsy of the vaginal mass and cervical conization. The mass was originally reported as an epithelioid MPNST after re-biopsy.

Abnormal Pap smear frequency and comparison of repeat cytological follow-up with colposcopy during patient management: the importance of pathologist's guidance in the management.

Objective: Cervical cancer contributes to a significant global health burden with room for improvement of primary prevention methods. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of Turkish women with abnormal cytology and their management by comparing results from repeat cytological analysis with close follow-up and colposcopy.

Methods: A retrospective evaluation of 8738 women who underwent Pap smears at a single institution during 2011 was performed.

Does severe vitamin D deficiency impact obstetric outcomes in pregnant women with thyroid autoimmunity?

Vitamin D plays an important role in the modulation of the immune system and anti-autoimmune activities. Autoimmune thyroid diseases related to endocrine disorders are associated with poor obstetric outcomes in pregnancy. Herein, we aimed to investigate the contribution of vitamin D hypovitaminosis to poor pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women with the positive autoimmune antibody.

Cytoplasmic abnormalities of mature oocytes have a significant effect on fertilization in Bologna poor responders.

Background/aim: We aimed to investigate whether oocyte morphologic abnormalities affected cycle outcome in poor responder infertile women who fulfilled the Bologna criteria.

Materials And Methods: Data were obtained from infertile couples who underwent ICSI and embryo transfer at the Zeynep Kamil Maternity and Children’s Health Training and Research Hospital Assisted Reproduction Unit in İstanbul, Turkey. They were allocated to two groups: Group A, poor responders, and Group B, normal responders.

Uterine Cervix Metastasis of Myxopapillary Ependymoma Originated from the Spinal Cord.

Background: Myxopapillary ependymomas are well differentiated low-grade tumors which have been documented to local or distant metastasis. In the literature, this is a unique case of myxopapillary ependymoma with metastasis to the uterine cervix. Here, we present a rare case of extra neural metastasis of spinal ependymoma that developed over a long period.

Do younger women with elevated basal follicular stimulating hormone levels undergoing gonadotropin-stimulated intrauterine insemination cycles represent compromised reproductive outcomes?

Objective: To compare stimulation characteristics and reproductive outcomes in women representing elevated and normal day 3 FSH levels and to evaluate the prognostic significance of day 3 FSH on the reproductive outcomes of gonadotropin-stimulated IUI (GS-IUI) cycles in women <35 years.

Study Design: A cross-sectional study was designed. Unexplained infertility patients at the age ≤36 years, who underwent IUI, following gonadotropin stimulation (GS), were investigated.

The diagnostic value of frozen section for borderline ovarian tumours.

Borderline ovarian tumours (BOTs) are characterised histologically by a low degree of cellular proliferation and nuclear atypia in the absence of infiltrative growth or stromal invasion. Surgical treatment has been a crucial component of BOT therapy. Surgical decisions are established intraoperatively via the frozen section.