Chlamydial infection in female lower genital tract and its correlation with cervical smear abnormalities.

Background: It is widely known that infection by Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is the most common curable sexually transmitted infection (STI) among the young population.Chlamydial cervicitis has been suspected in the past to be a risk factor for squamous intraepithelial neoplasia (SIL) and cervical cancer on the basis of case-control comparisons of serological tests.

Methods: A total of 110 women with symptomatic cervicitis were examined and samples for microbiologic detection of Chlamydia trachomatis antigen were obtained.

Diagnosis of an autoamputated ovary with dermoid cyst during a Cesarean section.

Objective: To report an extremely rare case of an autoamputated ovary with a dermoid cyst diagnosed during a Cesarean section and review the literature.

Design: Case report.

Setting: Tertiary hospital.

The effects of duloxetine on urethral function and sphincter morphology.

The aim of our study was to investigate the effect of duloxetine on urethral function and sphincter ultrasound morphology in 54 women, who were referred to a urogynecology unit, with urodynamic stress incontinence. All completed a King's Health Questionnaire and a patient global assessment of improvement (PGI-I) question and underwent urethral pressure profilometry, measurement of urethral retro-resistance pressure (URP), and ultrasound of the striated urethral sphincter. The investigations were repeated after 8 weeks of duloxetine 40 mg twice daily in 36 women who continued the medication.

Paclitaxel, cisplatin, and epirubicin first-line chemotherapy in stage III and IV ovarian carcinoma: long-term results of a phase II study.

Background: The combination of paclitaxel with cisplatin or carboplatin has become the preferred chemotherapy regimen in the treatment of epithelial ovarian carcinoma. Anthracyclines also have activity in this disease. We conducted a Phase II study by using the combination of paclitaxel, cisplatin, and epirubicin for the treatment of advanced ovarian carcinoma.

Gynecologic cancer and surgical infectious morbidity.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate retrospectively the surgical infectious morbidity in gynecologic cancer. We examined 1,180 gynecologic oncology patients: 608 women had carcinoma of the endometrium, 510 cancer of the cervix, 48 ovarian cancer and 14 vulvar cancer. Thirty-five (6%), 92 (18%), 7 (15%) and 2 (14%) were complicated by infection in carcinoma of the endometrium, cancer of the cervix, ovarian cancer and vulvar cancer, respectively.