[Risk factors and clinical characteristic patients with vulvar cancer].

Introduction: Vulvar cancer is very rare, accounting for about 3-5% female tract malignancies. Venereal diseases and cigarette smoking have been associated with vulvar cancer. Recently p53 gene mutation and Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infections have been considered etiologic factors.

[Can vulvar carcinoma be a danger in the 21st century?].

Vulvar carcinoma accounts for 3-5% of all genital cancers. The most common histology of vulvar cancer is squamous cell carcinoma. It has been suggested that vulvar cancer exists as two separate diseases--HPV-positive, occurring in young women, and p53-positive, that occurs in older women.

[Hematometra in 76-year-old woman followed by DIC and the result of the carcinoma of cervix--a case report].

This is a case report of a 76-year-old women with hematometra due to cervical cancer followed by DIC. To the authors' knowledge this is the first report of such case.

[The analysis of sodium, potassium and calcium concentration in myomas, myometrium and peripheral blood].

We have examined the concentration of sodium and potassium in myomas, myometrium and peripheral blood of 55 women and in 69 women calcium was examined. The levels of these elements were correlated to the phase of the menstrual cycle. The sodium concentration is similar in the examined tissues in both phases.

[Cadmium concentration in uterine myomas, myometrium and peripheral blood from women living in Lower Silesia].

The author has studied the cadmium concentration in uterine myomas, myometrial tissue and peripheral blood in 72 women living in Lower Silesia. The highest cadmium concentration was observed in myometrial tissue, lower in uterine myomas and the lowest in the peripheral blood. The differences among the tissues were statistically significant.

[Chlamydia trachomatis in cervical canal and in the pouch of Douglas in infertile women].

The results of microbiological examination of samples from cervical canal of the uterus and from pouch of Douglas in 71 women who underwent diagnostic and operative laparoscopy is presented. In 33 cases diagnosed because of infertility Chlamydia trachomatis was present in 2 (6.1%) women and in one woman both in cervical canal and pouch of Douglas.