Luteal estrogen supplementation in stimulated cycles may improve the pregnancy rate in patients undergoing in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection-embryo transfer.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of estradiol addition to progesterone supplementation during the luteal phase on pregnancy and implantation rates in patients undergoing in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection-embryo transfer (IVF/ICSI-ET) cycles.

Methods: In this prospective, randomized study, carried out in an IVF unit of a university hospital, we studied patients who were undergoing IVF/ICSI with controlled ovarian hyperstimulation using a gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist/human recombinant gonadotropin long protocol. The main outcome measures were the pregnancy and implantation rates measured in the two groups.

Laparoscopic treatment of ovarian dermoid cysts: eleven years' experience.

Study Objective: To compare laparoscopic and open approaches in the management of benign ovarian teratomas (dermoid cysts) with regard to operative outcome, complications, and postoperative follow-up. Factors that predispose to rupture of dermoid cysts during laparoscopic removal and rates of adhesion formation in women with and without cyst rupture during laparoscopic surgery also were considered.

Design: Review of cases of women with dermoid cysts who underwent cystectomy either by laparoscopy or laparotomy in our department from 1992 through 2002 (Canadian Task Force classification III).

Miliary tuberculous peritonitis mimicking advanced ovarian cancer.

Primary peritoneal tuberculosis is a rare presentation of this disease. It is usually associated with ascites and raised CA-125 levels. Occasionally a pelvic mass may be present making the preoperative differential diagnosis from advanced ovarian cancer extremely difficult.