Patient-reported lymphedema after sentinel lymph node mapping in women with low-grade endometrial cancer.

Background: Sentinel lymph node mapping is a minimally invasive surgical staging procedure that allows identification of macro- and micrometastases. The implementation of sentinel lymph node mapping to women with low-grade endometrial cancer allows detection of lymph node metastases and avoids the morbidity of radical pelvic lymphadenectomy. The extent of myometrial invasion is highly predictive of lymph node metastases but is hard to determine precisely preoperatively.

Identifying safe diagnostic algorithms for sentinel lymph node mapping in high-risk endometrial cancer: The SENTIREC-endo study.

Introduction: It is unclear if sentinel node (SLN) mapping can replace pelvic- (PLD) and paraaortic lymphadenectomy (PALD) for high-risk endometrial cancer (EC). A diagnostically safe surgical algorithm, taking failed mapping cases into account, is not defined. We aimed to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of SLN mapping algorithms in women with exclusively high-risk EC.

Preoperative prediction of high-risk endometrial cancer by expert and non-expert transvaginal ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging, and endometrial histology.

Objective: To identify women with high-risk endometrial cancers using expert and non-expert transvaginal ultrasonography (TVS) and MRI.

Study Design: Myometrial involvement was prospectively evaluated in patients with atypical hyperplasia or endometrial cancer on ultrasound by non-experts at first visit (non-expert-TVS: n = 266) and experts (expert-TVS: n = 188) at second visit. MRI (n = 175) was performed when high-risk cancer was suspected on non-expert-TVS.

Dynamic Spectral Imaging Colposcopy Versus Regular Colposcopy in Women Referred With High-Grade Cytology: A Nonrandomized Prospective Study.

Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the sensitivity of dynamic spectral imaging (DSI) colposcopy compared with regular colposcopy for women referred with high-grade cervical cytology.

Methods: In a prospective, nonrandomized, multicenter study, we included women referred for colposcopy at hospital gynecology clinics with high-grade cytology. Women were examined using either a regular or DSI colposcope.

Can the dynamic spectral imaging (DSI) color map improve colposcopy examination for precancerous cervical lesions? A prospective evaluation of the DSI color map in a multi-biopsy clinical setting.

Background: Colposcopy serves as a subjective examination of the cervix with low sensitivity to detect cervical intraepithelial dysplasia (CIN) grade 2 or worse (CIN2 +). Dynamic spectral imaging (DSI) colposcopy has been developed to provide an objective element to cervix examinations and has been proven to increase sensitivity of detecting CIN2 + . We aimed to assess the performance of the DSI color map and compared it to histological diagnoses of cervical biopsies in determining the CIN grade present.

Accuracy of colposcopy-directed biopsy vs dynamic spectral imaging directed biopsy in correctly identifying the grade of cervical dysplasia in women undergoing conization: A methodological study.

Introduction: Dynamic spectral imaging (DSI) colposcopy has previously been found to improve sensitivity of CIN2+ detection. The aim of this study was to compare the histological diagnosis of colposcopic-directed biopsies (CDB) with that of DSI-directed biopsies in women undergoing conization, using the histological diagnosis of the conization specimen as gold standard.

Material And Methods: Women referred for colposcopy were included in a prospective cohort study at Randers Regional Hospital, Denmark, from January 2016 to February 2019.

Ultrasound Scoring of Endometrial Pattern for Fast-track Identification or Exclusion of Endometrial Cancer in Women with Postmenopausal Bleeding.

Study Objective: To evaluate the risk of endometrial cancer (REC) scoring system for the prediction of high and low probability of endometrial cancer (EC) in women with postmenopausal bleeding (PMB).

Design: A prospective study (Canadian Task Force classification II-1).

Setting: An academic hospital.

[Screening for Down's syndrome can cause both security and anxiety].

Most women experience periods of increased anxiety and worry during pregnancy, and in many cases it is an appropriate response to a novel situation of change and transition. Women participate in screening for Down's syndrome in order to receive a general reassurance of the health of their baby. Generally, a screen-negative result does increase pregnant women's feelings of reassurance.

[A qualitative study of pregnant women's choice of nuchal translucency measurement].

Introduction: In 2004, The Danish National Board of Health introduced new guidelines for prenatal screening and diagnosis. Subsequently, all pregnant women in Denmark have been offered a maternal serum screening and a nuchal translucency measurement (NTM). The results are combined to a single risk estimate of carrying a Down syndrome child.

Informed consent: providing information about prenatal examinations.

Background: Choice in prenatal care has moved on from a paternalistic approach, to increased patient autonomy and informed decision-making. This review summarises the existing literature on the information of pregnant women about prenatal examinations. The extent to which information about Down syndrome and screening tests empowers informed decision-making are investigated, as are different ways of expressing a risk estimate.

Informed consent: attitudes, knowledge and information concerning prenatal examinations.

Background: Providing women with information enabling an informed consent to prenatal examinations has been widely recommended.

Objective: The primary purpose of this review is to summarise the current knowledge of the pregnant woman's expectations and attitudes concerning prenatal examinations, as well as the knowledge possessed by pregnant women undergoing prenatal examinations. Second, we explore their reasons for accepting or declining available screening tests.