A case of cutaneous endometriosis developed on an abdominal scar.

Background: Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of an ectopic endometrial tissue. It affects between 1% and 5% of women in reproductive age. Its main clinical symptoms are dysmenorrhoea and infertility.

Ovarian abscess as a complication of assisted reproduction techniques: a case report.

Background: AMP makes true great strides these last decades. Logically some complications were noticed even due to ovarian puncture such as hemorrhage, perforation or infection. The aim of this report is to try, through a review of literature, to draw the attention of physicians to a rare entity, ovarian abscess after follicle aspiration for in-vitro fertilization, and to means of prevention.

[Imperforate hymen: a series of 13 cases].

Background: Imperforate hymen is a rare congenital malformation. Patients often remain asymptomatic until puberty and present in early adolescence with cyclic abdominal pain. Early diagnosis and treatment must be performed in order to prevent morbidity.

Clinical analysis and management of gestational trophoblastic diseases: a 90 cases study.

Objective: The aim of the study was to identify the incidence, diagnosis, therapeutic and histological particularities of molar pregnancies and to evaluate our management of gestational trophoblastic tumors (GTT) according to the recommendations of FIGO.

Methods: This was a retrospective study of 90 patients who were diagnosed with molar pregnancy from January 1991 to December 2007. After remission, post molar pregnancy surveillance was continued for one year.

Fetal intracranial haemorrhage and periventricular leukomalacia after second-trimester intrauterine fetal death in monochorionic twins.

Background: Intrauterine fetal death of one twin in a monochorionic pregnancy may be associated with adverse neurologic sequelae in the surviving co-twin.

Objective: The aim of this report is to try, through a review of literature, to predict the risk of cerebral impairment in the survivor co-twin and to assess the feasability of neurosonography and magnetic resonance imaging in the prenatal diagnosis of brain damage.

Case Report: We report a case of monochorionic twins complicated by a fetal death at approximately 23 weeks' gestation with pathologically confirmed leukomalacia in the surviving twin.

[Diagnostic value of immunohistochemistry in ovarian sex cord-stromal tumors].

Background: The ovarian tumors' diagnosis is based on biological and radiologic tests but only the histological examination associated to an immunohistochemical study allow best diagnosis.

Aim: The purposes of this study is to examine inhibin and other markers immunoreactivity to ovarian sex cord-stromal tumors and their histological mimics and to discuss its value in the differential diagnosis.

Methods: We report a retrospective study of 31 cases of ovarian sex cord-stromal tumors and review the clinical, pathologic and immunohistochimical features of these tumors.

[Accuracy of frozen section diagnosis: an analysis of 1695 consecutive cases].

Background: The intraoperative frozen section is a well established procedure for rapid diagnosis that helps in making therapeutic decisions.

Aim: Assessment of the accuracy of frozen section diagnosis and analysis of the causes of its discordance.

Methods: A retrospective review of 1695 surgical specimens performed in 1207 patients between January 2002 and April 2005.

[Benign ovarian tumors during pregnancy. A review of 26 cases].

Objective: To identify the particularities of ovarian tumors during pregnancy.

Methods: A retrospective study of 26 patients who underwent surgical treatment for ovarian tumors during pregnancy between January 1993 and December 2005. Clinical, ultrasonographic, therapeutic and histological data were analysed.

Spontaneous ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome and deep vein thrombosis in a non pregnant woman: case report.

Aim: To assess aetiological factors and complications in a patient with severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) and internal jugular vein thrombosis.

Case: A 27-year-old non pregnant woman with bilateral ovarian masses who had underwent laparotomy for suspicion of malignant tumor. The pathological examination disclosed malignancy and the diagnosis of OHSS were confirmed.

Incidence, clinical analysis, and management of ovarian fibromas and fibrothecomas.

Objective: The objective of the study was to identify the incidence, diagnosis, and therapeutic and histological particularities of ovarian fibromas and fibrothecomas.

Study Design: This was a retrospective study of 24 patients who underwent surgical treatment for ovarian fibromas and fibrothecomas between January 1994 and December 2006. Clinical, ultrasonographic, tumor marker, therapeutic, and histologic data were analyzed.

Laparoscopic management of ovarian cysts in postmenopausal women.

Aim: To report our experience with laparoscopic treatment of ovarian cysts in postmenopausal women.

Methods: During the period January 2000 to December 2006, 18 postmenopausal women were admitted for laparoscopy. The indications for the operation were an ovarian cyst that did not meet the criteria of a simple cyst, or was larger than 4 cm

Results: The median age of the patients was 55 (range 43-82).

[Management of dermoid ovarian cysts. Report of 58 cases].

Objective: To assess diagnosis and therapeutic problems of der mo id cysts.'

Methods: A retrospective study of 58 patients having undergone surgery for dermoid cyst between 1991 and 1999. Clinical, ultrasonographic and therapeutic data were analysed.

[Struma ovarii. Report of a malignant and a benign case].

Struma ovarii is a rare type of ovarian teratoma, composed entirely or in part of thyroid tissue. Malignant Struma ovarii were exceptional. We report one benign and one malignant cases of Struma ovarii.