Advantages of open laparoscopic surgery over exploratory laparotomy in patients with tubo-ovarian abscess.

Study Objective: To compare laparoscopic surgery and conventional laparotomy in managing patients with tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA).

Design: Retrospective study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).

Setting: Regional hospital.

Expression of sialyltransferase family members in cervix squamous cell carcinoma correlates with lymph node metastasis.

Objective: Altered messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) expression of the four sialyltransferases (STs including ST3Gal I, ST3Gal III, ST3Gal IV, and ST6Gal I) is important in squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix. This study further investigates their changes in mRNA expression of the four STs in FIGO stage IB1 squamous cell carcinoma to assess the extent of sialylation associated with lymph node metastases.

Methods: Alterations in ST mRNA expression in FIGO IB1 cervical squamous cell carcinomas (n = 79) were examined by semiquantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.

Successful conservative treatment for advanced interstitial pregnancy. A case report.

Background: Interstitial pregnancy is a relatively rare and life-threatening disease, occurring in 2-4% of all extrauterine pregnancies, and the maternal mortality rate is 2-2.5%. Laparoscopic surgery and, less commonly, methotrexate are the treatments of choice for interstitial pregnancy.

Ovarian stone. A case report.

Background: To our knowledge, ovarian calcification and ossification involving the whole ovary with images that mimic stone formations have not been reported before.

Case Report: A 42-year-old woman presented with severe abdominal pain. Plain abdominal radiography showed a well-defined, calcified mass, 4 x 5 cm, located in the pelvis.

Successful pregnancy in a woman with symptomatic fibroids who underwent laparoscopic bipolar coagulation of uterine vessels.

Objective: To report a case of successful pregnancy after laparoscopic bipolar coagulation of uterine vessels (LBCUV).

Design: Case report.

Setting: University-affiliated tertiary referral center.

Detecting cytokeratin 19 mRNA in the peripheral blood cells of cervical cancer patients and its clinical-pathological correlation.

Objective: The aim of this study was to study the presence of cytokeratin 19 (CK19)-expressing cancer cells in the blood of preoperative patients with FIGO stage Ib and IIb cervical cancers who received radical hysterectomy and to investigate the cells' clinical significance.

Methods: CK19 mRNA in the blood cells of the patients was detected preoperatively by a newly designed nested reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, which excluded pseudogenes a and b, performed on 84 patients with stage Ib and IIb cervical carcinoma. Possible correlations between clinicopathological factors were then analyzed.

New strategies and advances in the management of cervical carcinoma.

Background: Carcinoma of the cervix is still common female cancer in Taiwan. A large portion of patients die of the disease in spite of various kinds of therapies and even the combination of multi-modality treatment.

Methods: The current review includes a comprehensive review of the literature.

Analysis of genetic aberrations in uterine adenomyosis using comparative genomic hybridization.

Objective: To use comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) to analyzefrozen tissuesfrom adenomyosis cases to discover and map genomic regions for chromosomal gains and losses.

Study Design: In a retrospective study, upper and lower threshold values of 1.20 and 0.

Early pregnancy uninterrupted by laparoscopic bipolar coagulation of uterine vessels.

Laparoscopic bipolar coagulation of uterine vessels (LBCUV) is reported to treat clinically symptomatic myomas that caused severe menorrhagia, but the viability of pregnancy after operation is unknown. A woman with clinically diagnosed uterine myomas, possibly with adenomyosis, had unexpected early pregnancy diagnosed at the time of LBCUV. The procedure resulted in improvement of menorrhagia to normal menstruation and reductions in the volume of both uterus and myomas.