[Congenital cervico-vaginal atresia and pelvic endometriosis. Clinical case and review of the literature].

Congenital cervico-vaginal atresia is a rare malformation; the presence of a functioning endometrium combined with this anomaly causes a retrograde menstruation and then a greater likelihood of endometriosis. Up to the present literature relates only thirteen cases in which congenital cervico-vaginal atresia was combined with a functioning endometrium. Primary amenorrhea and cyclic, cramping lower abdominal pain was the common symptoms of all the patients.

Fibronectin levels in pregnancy and puerperium.

Fibronectin levels were serially assayed during the third trimester of pregnancy and puerperium in a group women with uncomplicated pregnancies, and two groups with mild/severe hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. The values were found increased in the complicated pregnancies, with extremely elevated levels in cases of severe preeclamptic fits.

Virus in gynaecological oncology.

We measured the antibody presence of eventual viral infections (Parotiditis, Cytomegalovirus, Herpes Simplex and Hepatitis B) in 51 patients affected by malignant gynaecological tumours. Ninety five women composing the control group not affected by any pathology, underwent the same tests. Even if research has utilized various indirect methods for the antibody dosage of each viral infection, we have not confirmed other Authors' reports.

Hyperparathyroidism in a pregnant woman with previous thyroid carcinoma. Case report and review of the literature.

A 29 year old woman, primipara, at 26 weeks' gestation had been undergone, five years before, a total thyroidectomy owing to a mixed papillary-follicular carcinoma of thyroid. After thyroidectomy the patient was placed on suppressive thyroxine treatment. Since she was 22 years old she suffered from recurrent renal colics and cholelithiasis.

Multifocal extraovarian serous carcinoma. A histochemical and immunohistochemical study.

Three cases of multifocal extraovarian serous carcinoma are presented. This rare, interesting tumor is characterized by a peritoneal carcinosis with ascites and by a histological pattern similar to one of the ovarian serous carcinoma without primary involvement of the ovaries. The pathological criteria for a differential diagnosis between this condition and a localization of ovarian carcinoma are discussed.