1. Vaginal breech birth--the phoenix arising from the ashes.

Vaginal breech birth all but disappeared from UK maternity units after the publication of the Term Breech Trial (Hannah et al 2000). However, mounting evidence does not support caesarean section as the safest mode of birth for the baby or the mother when the baby is presenting breech. But the intervening years have depleted the attending professional's skills.

Patient satisfaction with outpatient hysteroscopy performed by nurse hysteroscopists.

Objective: To investigate the effect of the introduction of nurse hysteroscopists on patient satisfaction at an outpatient hysteroscopy clinic in the United Kingdom.

Methods: Satisfaction with outpatient hysteroscopy performed in a University Teaching Hospital was measured using an anonymous structured questionnaire in 2000 and 2005. The unpaired t test, Mann-Whitney U test, or chi(2) test was used depending on the level of measurement.

An in vitro uterine perfusion model for investigating endometrial cryoablation.

Study Objectives: To build a simple in vitro uterine perfusion model for investigating the clinical effectiveness of endometrial ablation.

Design: Comparative laboratory and in vivo study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).

Setting: University teaching hospital.

Susceptibility of uterine myomas and endometrium to cryosurgery using a carbon dioxide cryosurgical probe in vitro.

Study Objective: To determine the effect of a 9-mm diameter carbon dioxide cryoprobe, the Endocryo, on myomas and endometrial/myometrial tissue in vitro.

Design: Comparative laboratory study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).

Setting: University laboratory.