Induced abortion: a four-year experience at a University Gynaecological Clinic in Greece.

The aim of this study was to estimate the percentage of women who asked for pregnancy termination as an alternative to using family planning. The reasons given for requesting termination were documented and evaluated. During a 4-year period, 663 women came to the Family Planning Department.

Headless spermatozoa in fertile men.

Headless or unucleated spermatozoa were evaluated in semen specimens of 52 fertile men in order to investigate the frequency and the percentage of this morphological abnormality and to estimate the probable correlation of the abnormality with other semen parameters, since there are no available data. The only sperm parameter which correlated with the number of headless spermatozoa was the number of micro round-headed spermatozoa (r= + 0.4432, P<0.

Asynchronous delivery of twins and triplets with an interval period ranging from 48 hours to 19 weeks.

Objective: To improve perinatal survival rates by prolonging the rest of the pregnancy after an abortion or extremely premature birth of one fetus in multiple pregnancies, especially in women with low fertility potential.

Methods: Following the expulsion of one fetus a cervical cerclage was applied to all patients. The placenta of the expelled fetus including a small portion of its cord after it was ligated close to the external os, was left in situ.

Do characteristic spermatozoal morphological abnormalities exist in patients who have undergone unilateral orchiectomy and preventive radiotherapy?

Design: We examined 16 men who had been subjected to unilateral orchiectomy owing to seminoma and to preventive radiotherapy, in order to investigate the morphologic abnormalities of the spermatozoa (headless and small-round-headedness) that may contribute to infertility.

Results: The same morphologic abnormalities of the head and neck found in the semen samples of fertile men were also found in the semen samples of the patients, albeit in higher percentages; the morphologic abnormalities of the tail in the semen samples of the patients were similar to those of the fertile men, both qualitatively and quantitatively.

Conclusion: No specifically characteristic morphologic abnormalities of the spermatozoa were detected in men who were subjected to unilateral orchiectomy and to preventive radiotherapy in comparison with fertile men.