Publications by authors named "Poojitha Kanikaram"

Choriocarcinoma is a highly vascular and invasive tumor of anaplastic trophoblast, predominantly made up of cytotrophoblasts and syncytiotrophoblasts without villi. Based on its origin, choriocarcinoma can be either gestational or non-gestational. Non-gestational choriocarcinoma can be of germ cell origin, or can be seen in association with a somatic high-grade malignancy.

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Gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) arising in the placenta and presenting as a metastatic disease concurrently in the mother and the baby is extremely rare. GTN poses a diagnostic dilemma to the treating clinicians. In the current review, an electronic search of Scopus, PubMed, Embase and other databases was conducted for case reports and case series of GTN co-existing or metastatic to both the mother and the baby, published to date.

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Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the effect of local infiltration of anesthetic to the vaginal vault on postoperative pain after total laparoscopic hysterectomy.

Materials And Methods: This was a single-center, randomized trial. Women assigned to laparoscopic hysterectomy were randomly divided into two groups.

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