Use of a levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device in the treatment of adenomyosis associated heavy menstrual bleeding.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of a levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device in the treatment of adenomyosis associated with heavy menstrual bleeding.

Methods: The retrospective study was conducted at a tertiary referral hospital in Izmir, Turkey, and comprised data on adenomyosis patients who were implanted with a levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device for heavy menstrual bleeding between December 2004 and January 2008. After the insertion of the device, all patients were followed up by transvaginal ultrasonography and serum haemoglobin levels and menstrual patterns were determined at the 6th and 12th month.

The impact of thrombocytosis on clinicopathological prognostic factors and survival in patients with vulvar cancer.

Purpose: Reactive thrombocytosis in many solid tumors has widely been studied. In the present study we aimed to investigate whether thrombocytosis is a common and prognostic factor in women with vulvar cancer

Material & Methods: The preoperative platelet counts of 41 women, treated for vulvar cancer in our onco-gynecology center between March 1994 and January 2007, were retrospectively reviewed and correlated to clinical and pathological prognostic factors and 5-year survival. The chi-square or Fisher exact tests were used to compare categorical variables.

Borderline ovarian tumors: a study of 100 cases from a Tertiary Care Hospital.

Aim Of The Study: The purpose of the study was to evaluate patients with borderline ovarian tumors.

Material And Methods: Clinical features, treatment and survival status of 100 patients with borderline ovarian tumors were retrospectively evaluated between 1998 and 2007.

Results: Patients' mean age was 37.

Prevention of infectious morbidity after elective abdominal hysterectomy.

Objective: Our aim was to investigate whether posthysterectomy infectious morbidity could be reduced by intravaginal therapy before operations.

Materials And Methods: Women expected to undergo elective total abdominal hysterectomy were included. Vaginal flora was evaluated by preoperative Gram-stained vaginal smears up to Nugent's criteria.