Bilateral breast masses with a rare etiology.

Breast masses have a variety of benign and malignant etiologies. We present the case of a 28-year-old woman with bilateral large painful breast masses that developed rapidly in the three weeks before first presentation. Further investigation revealed bilateral ovarian masses.

[Severe neonatal blood loss due to umbilical cord rupture in an underwater birth].

Background: We present the case of an intrapartum umbilical cord rupture in an underwater birth with severe neonatal blood loss.

Case Report: A healthy 25-year-old gravida I with an uneventful pregnancy had an underwater birth. A completed rupture of the umbilical cord was diagnosed immediately after the newborn surfaced from the water and was laid on the mother's chest.

Evaluation of duration of corneal anesthesia induced with ophthalmic 0.5% proparacaine hydrochloride by use of a Cochet-Bonnet aesthesiometer in clinically normal horses.

Objective: To measure duration of corneal anesthesia and time and degree of maximal anesthetic effect of 0.5% proparacaine hydrochloride by use of a Cochet-Bonnet aesthesiometer in horses.

Animals: 10 clinically normal adult horses.

[Grey-scale texture analysis of the cervix in pregnancy].

Aim: The measurement of the length of the cervix is just a method of routine, but the analysis of the grey-scale texture of the cervix represents a method poorly evaluated to date which may have the scope of improving the prediction of premature birth. Before it can be used for clinical purposes, the method must be standardised.

Methods: 66 patients were examined endosonographically.