The Italian Perinatal Surveillance System SPItOSS: insights from Confidential Enquiries.

Background: An effective strategy to reduce perinatal mortality requires an active surveillance system. This includes monitoring cases, organizing multidisciplinary local audits, conducting Confidential Enquiries, identifying avoidable factors, and facilitating changes in the healthcare system. In 2017, the Italian Obstetric Surveillance System launched the SPItOSS pilot Perinatal Surveillance System.

Development and validation of a prognostic model to predict birth weight: individual participant data meta-analysis.

Objective: To predict birth weight at various potential gestational ages of delivery based on data routinely available at the first antenatal visit.

Design: Individual participant data meta-analysis.

Data Sources: Individual participant data of four cohorts (237 228 pregnancies) from the International Prediction of Pregnancy Complications (IPPIC) network dataset.

Triple-Negative Pleomorphic Lobular Carcinoma in a BRCA1 Mutation Carrier: A Case of Complete Pathological Response.

BACKGROUND Hereditary breast cancer arising in BRCA1-deficient patients is commonly diagnosed as invasive carcinoma of no special type (NST) with medullary features, while invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) appears to be significantly under-represented in BRCA1 mutation carriers. We report a case of pleomorphic ILC arising in a 28-year-old woman harboring a germline BRCA1 c.3756_3759delGTCT p.