The rationale of opportunistic bilateral salpingectomies (OBS) during benign gynaecological and obstetric surgery: a consensus text of the Flemish Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (VVOG).

Ovarian cancer (OC), is a disease difficult to diagnose in an early stage implicating a poor prognosis. The 5-year overall survival in Belgium has not changed in the last 18 years and remains 44 %. There is no effective screening method (secondary prevention) to detect ovarian cancer at an early stage.

Serum hCG decline following salpingotomy or salpingectomy for extrauterine pregnancy.

Twenty-five women with ectopic pregnancy were surgically treated, fifteen by conservative salpingotomy and ten by radical salpingectomy. All patients showed a clinically normal postoperative course. Serum human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) levels were determined serially before and after the surgical procedure until non-pregnant values (< 5 mI.

Preliminary results with the use of the ROM-check immunoassay in the early detection of rupture of the amniotic membranes.

The unequivocal presence of amniotic fluid in the vagina is an important clinical sign of rupture of amniotic membranes, entailing impending delivery or risk for chorioamnionitis. Commonly used methods for detection of amniotic fluid in the vagina include pooling, ferning, nitrazine paper, ultrasound measurement of amniotic sac dimensions, dye injection or measurement of prolactin in vaginal secretions. These results are either difficult to interpret or are obtained after an invasive or expensive procedure.

Innervation anomalies in upper and lower extremities: potential clinical implications. How to identify with electrophysiologic techniques.

In the course of an electrodiagnostic investigation of a peripheral nerve lesion, the examiner may be confronted with unexpected findings in contradiction with the clinical picture. Often these aberrant findings may be the result of an innervation anomaly. In this review article, a description is given of the most common innervation anomalies in upper and lower extremities: communications between the median and ulnar nerves in the forearm, communications between the median and ulnar nerves in the hand, innervation of the median nerve territory in the forearm and hand by branches of the musculocutaneous nerve, the existence of an accessory deep peroneal nerve.