Intimate examination teaching with volunteers: implementation and assessment at the University of Antwerp.

Objectives: Teaching intimate physical examinations in medical schools generates practical, didactical and ethical problems. At the University of Antwerp, a unique program with intimate examination assistants (IEA) was implemented for fifth year's undergraduate students. They learn gynaecological and urological skills in healthy volunteers.

Biphasic sarcomatoid carcinoma or carcinosarcoma of the breast: prognosis and therapy.

Biphasic sarcomatoid carcinoma of the breast represents only 0.2% of all breast cancer. Due to its rarity and repetitive reclassifications little is known about optimal treatment modalities.

Contrast-enhanced MR imaging of breast lesions and effect on treatment.

Purpose: To assess the value of local staging with preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with suspect breast lesions and the effect on therapeutic approach.

Materials And Methods: Two hundred and four consecutive women with suspect breast lesions on clinical examination (CE) and/or mammography (MX) and/or ultrasound (US) underwent preoperative contrast-enhanced MRI. Detection of multifocal, multicentric and bilateral breast cancer by all three imaging modalities was evaluated.

Preoperative breast MRI in patients with invasive lobular breast cancer.

To investigate the use of MRI in preoperative characterization of invasive lobular breast cancer (ILC) and in detection of multifocal/multicentric disease. We retrospectively reviewed T1-weighted FLASH 3D precontrast and postcontrast MR images together with subtraction images of 26 women with histopathologically proven invasive lobular cancer. Two experienced radiologists described tumor patterns of ILC independently.

Twin versus singleton pregnancy and preterm prelabour rupture of the membranes.

Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to compare the latency period between preterm prelabour rupture of the membranes (PPROM) and delivery in twin versus singleton pregnancies. The secondary purpose was to compare the neonatal outcome of these two groups.

Methods: A retrospective case control study was performed on 33 consecutive bichorionic twin pregnancies with gestational age 20 to 36 weeks admitted to the Antwerp University Hospital with PPROM from 1995 to 2000.