Temporal Patterns of Cervical Cancer Screening Among Danish Women 55 Years and Older Diagnosed With Cervical Cancer.

Objective: The aim of the study was to describe the screening history in postmenopausal women diagnosed with cervical cancer during 1990-2013 by age and screening period.

Materials And Methods: This hospital-based cohort study included women 55 years and older diagnosed with cervical cancer at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, during 1990-2013. Information on their previous history of cervical cancer screening was obtained from the Danish Pathology Databank.

Distensibility and pain of the uterine cervix evaluated by novel techniques.

The article serves to review the literature on the human uterine cervix based on a new distension technology named functional luminal imaging probe. This technology was originally developed to study the biomechanical competence of the gastro-esophageal junction where it provides a geometric profile of the lumen during distension, which can be related to sensory data. We searched and reviewed publications on cervical distention from 2002.

Overview of the methods available for biomechanical testing of the uterine cervix in vivo.

Objective: To give an overview of the methods available for biomechanical testing of the non-pregnant and pregnant uterine cervix in vivo.

Methods: The following databases were searched. PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library.

Identification of biomechanical properties in vivo in human uterine cervix.

Background And Aims: The course and outcome of pregnancy is closely correlated to change of biomechanical properties of the uterine cervix. The aim of this study was to build a non-linear, fiber reinforced mechanical model of the cervix for estimation of mechanical characteristics of the cervix in early- and term-pregnant women based on recordings of in vivo pressure and diameter by means of the Functional Luminal Imaging Probe (FLIP) technology.

Materials And Methods: Five early- and six term-pregnant women were examined with a FLIP probe.

Quantitative sonoelastography of the uterine cervix prior to induction of labor as a predictor of cervical dilation time.

Objective: To evaluate how the approximate Young's modulus of the uterine cervix assessed by quantitative sonoelastography in patients undergoing induction of labor is associated with the cervical dilation time and to evaluate the approximate Young's modulus as a predictor of prolonged cervical dilation time.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.

Cervical stiffness evaluated in vivo by endoflip in pregnant women.

Objective: To determine the stiffness of the pregnant uterine cervix in vivo.

Method: Five women in early pregnancy and six women in late pregnancy were included. The EndoFlip is a 1-m-long probe with a 12-cm-long bag mounted on the tip.

Quantitative sonoelastography of the uterine cervix by interposition of a synthetic reference material.

Objective: To develop a reference material that allows quantitative elastography of the uterine cervix using the calculation of the approximate tissue stiffness expressed as Young's modulus (N/mm(2) ). Further, to test the elastography equipment on phantoms from a clinical perspective regarding the distance dependence and the influence of a heterogeneous material.

Design: Methodological study.

Continuous use of oral contraceptives: an overview of effects and side-effects.

Objective: To describe the effects and side-effects of the continuous use of oral contraceptives.

Design: A review of articles concerning oral contraceptives taken continuously or in cycles with hormones taken for more than 21 days per cycle.

Methods: We searched publications in PubMed and Embase.

Likelihood ratios for the prediction of preterm delivery with biomarkers.

Objective: To conduct a literature search for selected biomarkers on preterm delivery and estimate their likelihood ratios (LR).

Design: Structured review.

Population: Low and high-risk populations and women with symptoms of preterm delivery.

Low serum interleukin-17 is associated with preterm delivery.

Objective: To study maternal serum interleukin-17 (IL-17) during normal pregnancy and evaluate the association with preterm delivery.

Design: Prospective study.

Setting: Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.