Cervical sarcoma botryoides. A case report.

Background: Sarcoma botryoides is a rare gynecologic malignancy. Reported treatment protocols range from localized resection of the tumor to radical surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy. Recently, limited excisional surgery combined with chemotherapy has contributed to excellent survival rates and preserved bladder and rectal function.

Genital fistulas caused by diverticular disease of the sigmoid colon.

Objective: Our purpose was to bring to the attention of gynecologists a subject not mentioned in a single textbook of gynecology, namely, genital fistulas resulting from diverticular disease of the sigmoid colon.

Study Design: We report our experience with 13 genital fistulas caused by sigmoid diverticulitis.

Results: Ten fistulas involved the vagina, one the vagina and bladder, one the tube, and one the uterus.

Genital fistulas secondary to diverticular disease of the colon: a review.

Genital fistulas that complicate diverticular disease of the sigmoid colon may no longer be considered esoteric, or even rare phenomena. The vast majority of such lesions present with a foul, often fecal, sometimes purulent and occasionally blood-tinged, vaginal discharge for which patients customarily first seek relief from their gynecologists. Despite this fact, the topic is not mentioned in a single American textbook of gynecology.

Prenatal exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES): childhood play behavior and adult gender-role behavior in women.

Data from lower mammals suggest a masculinizing or defeminizing influence of pre- or perinatal diethylstilbestrol (DES) exposure on various aspects of the sex-dimorphic behavior (including juvenile rough-and-tumble play) of genetic females. However, three previous studies on childhood play and adult gender-role behavior in human females have led to ambiguous results. In a follow-up study of 60 women with prenatal exposure to DES and 26 controls, we used psychometrically well-designed multi-item scales based on self-report inventories for the assessment of these aspects of behavior.

Squamous cell carcinoma of the endometrium. A case report.

Invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the endometrium occurred secondary to squamous cell carcinoma in situ of the cervix. There have been 27 previous reports of secondary endometrial squamous cell carcinoma and 31 of primary.