Postvoid residual bladder volume after uncomplicated vaginal delivery.

Objective: To create a reference curve for postvoid residual volume (PVRV) in asymptomatic postpartum women who are at low risk of developing postpartum urinary retention (PUR), a well-known complication in the immediate postpartum period.

Methods: This is a prospective observational study measuring PVRV after uncomplicated vaginal delivery. PVRV was assessed by transabdominal ultrasound using a portable ultrasound scanner within the first 26 h after delivery (PVRV 1) and on the day of discharge (day 2 or 3 postpartum) (PVRV 2).

Minimally Invasive Laparoscopic Transabdominal Cerclage with a "Needle-Free" Technique: A Single-Center Experience.

Background: In high-risk patients with cervical incompetence, laparoscopic cerclage is a promising treatment option. However, the procedure exhibits relevant surgical risks.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to evaluate a surgical "needle-free" technique for minimally invasive, laparoscopically placed cervico-isthmic cerclage in high-risk patients.

Perception of Labial Size and Objective Measurements-Is There a Correlation? A Cross-Sectional Study in a Cohort Not Seeking Labiaplasty.

Introduction: Poor genital self-image is a common phenomenon leading to an increasing interest in female genital surgery over the last years.

Aim: The aim was to correlate objective measurements of the labia minora with the individual subjective perception of the labial size.

Methods: In a cross-sectional study with 200 premenopausal women (median age 33.

Recurrence of genitals warts in pre-HPV vaccine era after laser treatment.

Purpose: Human papillomavirus (HPV) can cause condylomata acuminata, also known as genital warts. Our aim was to evaluate the long-term recurrence of genital warts after primary carbon dioxide laser treatment before the introduction of the vaccination against HPV.

Methods: Recurrence rate and localization of genital warts were analysed in a retrospective study in 1798 women presenting with a new diagnosis of genital warts from 1992 to 2009 at a University hospital and had received laser treatment.

L1CAM and HER2 Expression in Early Endometrioid Uterine Cancer.

Recently L1CAM was shown to be a promising biomarker for early-stage endometrial carcinoma (EC). As L1CAM expression was found to be related to serous ECs and areas of serous differentiation in endometrioid carcinomas, there is evidence that L1CAM-positive cancers more likely resemble type II carcinomas. Furthermore, expression of growth factor receptor HER2 has been found to be closely associated with serous ECs.

HE4 is an independent prognostic marker in endometrial cancer patients.

Objective: To evaluate the prognostic value of pretherapeutic serum HE4 in endometrial cancer in comparison to CA125.

Methods: HE4 and CA125 serum levels were analyzed by means of chemiluminescent microparticle immunoassays in 183 patients with endometrial cancer treated at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Innsbruck Medical University, between 1999 and 2009. The Kaplan-Meier method and Cox's proportional hazards analysis were performed to determine the prognostic significance of HE4, CA125 and the combination of both markers.

Fatal invasive cervical cancer secondary to untreated cervical dysplasia: a case report.

Introduction: Well-documented cases of untreated cervical intra-epithelial dysplasia resulting in fatal progression of invasive cervical cancer are scarce because of a long pre-invasive state, the availability of cervical cytology screening programs, and the efficacy of the treatment of both pre-invasive and early-stage invasive lesions.

Case Presentation: We present a well-documented case of a 29-year-old Caucasian woman who was found, through routine conventional cervical cytology screening, to have pathologic Papanicolaou (Pap) grade III D lesions (squamous cell abnormalities). She subsequently died as a result of human papillomavirus type 18-associated cervical cancer after she refused all recommended curative therapeutic procedures over a period of 13 years.

Mineral oil paraffins in human body fat and milk.

Paraffins of mineral oil origin (mineral paraffins) were analyzed in tissue fat collected from 144 volunteers with Caesarean sections as well as in milk fat from days 4 and 20 after birth of the same women living in Austria. In the tissue samples, the composition of the mineral paraffins was largely identical and consisted of an unresolved mixture of iso- and cycloalkanes, in gas chromatographic retention times ranging from n-C(17) to n-C(32) and centered at n-C(23)/C(24). Since the mineral oil products we are exposed to range from much smaller to much higher molecular mass and may contain prominent n-alkanes, the contaminants in the tissue fat must be a residue from selective uptake, elimination by evaporation and metabolic degradation.

Calgranulins in cystic fluid and serum from patients with ovarian carcinomas.

Ovarian cancer remains still associated with poor prognosis because it is diagnosed predominantly at advanced stages. Ovarian-specific tumor markers do not yet exist for early detection of the disease. At the search of diagnostic markers for ovarian cancer, proteomic-based approaches have focused on novel investigations of neoplastic processes in tumor patients.