Short-term outcomes in early term infants (born at 37 or 38 weeks): a retrospective investigation.

Introduction: Recently, researchers have introduced the concept of 'early term' infants, defined as infants born at 37 or 38 weeks of gestation, and their outcome has been discussed. Although the complications experienced by early term are less severe than those in preterm infants, this group accounts for a much larger proportion of newborns, making the assessment of outcomes important in clinical practice.

Methods: This observational study of term infants born at Tokyo Metropolitan Toshima Hospital aimed to understand the short-term outcomes in early term infants.

The head circumference to chest circumference ratio provided an easy way to detect foetal growth restriction in term infants.

Aim: The head circumference to chest circumference (HC/CC) ratio has been used to identify low birth weight infants in developed countries. This study was conducted to examine whether the ratio could distinguish asymmetrical foetal growth restriction (FGR).

Methods: This retrospective observational study was conducted with 1955 infants (50.

Changes in umbilical arterial blood flow by an intraamniotic distilled water infusion.

Objectives: The purpose is to investigate how umbilical arterial blood flow changes by an intraamniotic distilled water infusion and to determine whether the changes in umbilical circulation have any relationship with fetal cardiovascular status and osmolality in amniotic fluid and fetal plasma.

Methods: Eleven chronically catheterized pregnant sheep were used in this study. After a 1-hour control period, 1.

Parovarian cystadenoma: sonographic features associated with magnetic resonance and histopathologic findings.

Differentiation between malignant and benign parovarian tumors is necessary before any surgery is planned, because the postoperative spread of ovarian cancers is well documented. Both malignant and benign parovarian tumors may contain intracystic projections, so their presence is not a differentiating factor. We describe the cases of 2 patients with parovarian cystadenomas that were evaluated using sonography, MRI, and histopathology in an attempt to begin to identify the sonographic characteristics of such lesions and correlate them with MRI and histopathologic findings.

Fractal tumor growth of ovarian cancer: sonographic evaluation.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine whether sonographically depicted ovarian tumor growth is fractal, and the mean fractal dimension differs according to stages of the disease and histologic types.

Methods: The fractal dimensions of outlines of sonographically depicted solid components in 160 ovarian tumors were measured using a box-counting method.

Results: The mean fractal dimensions of the surface of intracystic solid components in serous, mucinous, endometrioid, and clear cell adenocarcinoma were 1.