Attitudes to voluntary sterilization in Serbia: women's and gynecologists' points of view.

Objectives: The question if voluntary sterilization is accepted in Serbia has been imposed for research, regardless of the fact that this birth control method is neither accessible nor promoted.

Methods: The attitudes of women who decided to terminate pregnancy and of gynecologists from various parts of Serbia were explored by specially designed anonymous questionnaires.

Results: More than half of the surveyed women believe that voluntary sterilization should be available in Serbia and almost half would subject themselves to this surgical procedure.

Pre-operative differentiation of pediatric ovarian tumors: morphological scoring system and tumor markers.

Objective: To investigate the importance of morphological scoring systems in differentiation of ovarian tumors in childhood.

Methods: Morphological assessment using DePriest's index was performed for all patients with histopathological confirmation of ovarian tumor, with evaluation of tumor markers, from January 1997.

Results: Fifty-three girls (age range 13 months to 19 years) were surgically treated for 59 ovarian tumors, including six bilateral.

[Attitudes of women and gynecologists towards voluntary sterilization in Serbia?].

Introduction: Voluntary sterilization is a very effective and safe birth control method. Is it, however, accepted as a birth control method in Serbia? This is certainly a question that should be explored, regardless of the fact that voluntary sterilization is neither accessible nor promoted.

Material And Methods: The target group included women who decided to terminate their pregnancy, and gynecologists from various parts of Serbia.

[Ovarian cysts and tumors as the cause of isosexual pseudoprecocious puberty].

Introduction: Precocious puberty in girls is generally defined as appearance of secondary sexual characteristics before eight years of age. Menarche before the ninth birthday may serve as an additional criterion. Precocious puberty is divided in central precocious puberty and pseudoprecocious puberty.

Rapidly growing bilateral ovarian cystadenoma in a 6-year-old girl: case report and literature review.

Background: Benign ovarian neoplasms originating from epithelial tissue are common tumors in adult women. However, they are rarely seen in the pediatric population, especially in the first decade of life.

Case: We report a case of a 6-year-old, premenarchal girl, previously healthy, with frequent micturition lasting 3 days prior to the first examination, without discomfort or pain.