Small bowel obstruction during pregnancy.

The authors report the case of a 28-year old pregnant woman with abdominal pain and contractions at 37 weeks of gestation. After labour and delivery, abdominal pain persisted and laparoscopy was performed. A bowel obstruction was diagnosed and surgically corrected.

Prenatal diagnosis of a constitutional interstitial deletion of chromosome 5 (q15q31.1) presenting with features of congenital contractural arachnodactyly.

Prenatal diagnosis of a constitutional interstitial deletion of chromosome 5 (q15q31.1) in a 30-year-old woman is reported. At 21 weeks of pregnancy, routine fetal ultrasounds showed the presence of apparently isolated bilateral club feet.

Antenatal fetal death in twin pregnancies: a dangerous condition mainly for the surviving co-twin; a report of four cases.

The outcome of four twin pregnancies with fetal death of one twin during the late second and the third trimester is described. A review of the complications occurring after antepartal fetal death of one twin is presented. A management plan for this rare complication of pregnancy is established.

A case report of unusual complication of myomatous uterus in pregnancy: spontaneous perforation of myoma after red degeneration.

An unusual complication of myomatous uterus in pregnancy is presented. It shows spontaneous perforation of a myoma after red degeneration, presenting as an acute abdomen. To our knowledge spontaneous perforation of a necrotising leiomyoma has not been reported earlier.

The gonadotropin-resistant ovary syndrome in association with secondary amenorrhea.

A young patient with secondary amenorrhea and primary infertility is described. After a gynecological-endocrinological exploration including laparoscopy, the diagnosis indicates secondary hypergonadotropic, hypo-estrogenic normo-androgenic amenorrhea. The anatomopathological examination of an ovarian biopsy revealed an intact follicular apparatus, thus disproving the suspected diagnosis of climacterium praecox.