Unlabelled: After the age of 55 almost every third woman suffers from conditions of the incapability to retain urine when the intra-abdominal pressure is raised by different causes. So called stress incontinence. It' s caused by a predisposition in the family, weakness of the tissue, physical strain, deficiency in the metabolism, especially an increasing local estrogen deficiency and a local and systemic vitamin D deficiency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn a small praxis/ambulance study we evaluated data of 200 women with chronical recurrent cervical infections and with a cervix dysplasia (CIN 1, CIN 2). who got after the primary therapy a treatment with vitamin D vaginal suppositories (12.500 IU, 3 nights a week, for 6 weeks).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUsing a new method, exfoliative cytologic examinations were performed in patients after laryngectomy and in patients with rhinitis sicca in comparison to normal nasal mucosa. In patients after laryngectomy an increased rate of nasal secretion can be seen. In the nasal smear the main fraction of cells are ciliated epithelial cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLaryngol Rhinol Otol (Stuttg)
June 1983
A new method for collecting nasal secretions yields quantitative cytological results of human nasal secretions. The new results are compared with the conventional methods for obtaining nasal smears by cotton or replica technique. The best staining method is a modified May-Grünwald stain.
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