Liver stiffness as a predictor of hepatocellular carcinoma behavior in patients with hepatitis C related liver cirrhosis.

Background: Risk stratification and prognostication of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) help to improve patient outcome. Herein we investigated the role of liver stiffness measurement (LSM) in the prediction of HCC behavior.

Methods: Totally 121 naïve patients with HCC were included.

Significance of endometrial polyps detected hysteroscopically in eumenorrheic infertile women.

Aim: To determine if the incidence of small endometrial polyps detected hysteroscopically in an infertile eumenorrheic population differed from that in an apparently fertile eumenorrheic population. Evidence was sought to determine whether removal of such lesions would enhance reproductive performance.

Methods: In a prospective study, 266 consecutive infertile women had undergone complete fertility evaluation.

Combined diagnostic approach of laparoscopy and hysteroscopy in the evaluation of female infertility: results of 612 patients.

Aim: To clarify the role of a combined diagnostic approach using laparoscopy and hysteroscopy in the evaluation of female infertility in developing countries.

Methods: In a prospective study, 612 consecutive infertile women underwent complete fertility evaluation at a tertiary university infertility clinic: 300 complained of primary infertility, 221 of secondary infertility, and 91 were requesting reversal of a previous tubal ligation. All the patients were examined by simultaneous combined laparoscopy and hysteroscopy as a part of their routine infertility evaluation.