Evaluation of nitric acid donor, transdermal glycerol trinitrate patches for facilitating cervical ripening: a randomised controlled trial.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of transdermal glycerol trinitrate skin patches as an additive and effective agent for facilitating cervical ripening for labour induction.

Methods: This was a double-blinded prospective randomised clinical trial carried out in a major obstetric unit in India. Women who planned for labour induction were randomly allocated for induction either by combined application of glycerol trinitrate skin patches [GTN patch] and intracervical dinoprostone gel or by the gel only.

Malignant phylloides tumor of breast in a pregnant woman with coincidental nulliparous vaginal prolapse.

Malignant phylloides tumor is a relatively rare and rapidly growing tumor of the breast. Presentation during pregnancy is uncommon. Reports regarding malignancy in these tumors differ greatly in incidence, and most of them are stromal malignancies.

Maggots in prolapsed uterus - Polluted progress of life style.

Myiasis is infestation by dipterous larva that thrives on host's living or necrotic tissue and cause massive tissue infection. We present a case of Myiasis in uterine cavity of a prolapsed uterus of a 77-year-old multiparous lady of West Midnapore District, West Bengal, India. It is a very rare case as only a few reports have been previously published in literature.

Knowledge and information on psychological, physiological and gynaecological problems among adolescent schoolgirls of eastern India.

Background: Sex education aims to reduce the risks of potentially negative outcome from sexual behavior such as fear and stigma of menstruation, unwanted and unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections including HIV. Hence, this study was conducted to determine sex education knowledge level of school going adolescents in semi urban area of Midnapore, West Bengal, India.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in two selected premier secondary school of girls in the Midnapore Town from September - October 2007.

Yours faithfully -- prevention of parent to child transmission (PPTCT).

The objective of this study is to find out the reasons behind drop out of the mothers from the prevention of parent to child transmission (PPTCT) programme, thereby going undiagnosed of their HIV serostatus. A retrospective 6-year study was undertaken among mothers attending antenatal clinic and the unbooked cases delivering at the medical college. The percentage of mothers taking pretest counselling was 95.

Symphysiotomy: Is it obsolete?

Aim: To compare the maternal and neonatal outcomes of symphysiotomy (SYM) and cesarean section (CS), when they were performed in women presenting with obstructed labor.

Material And Methods: This was a prospective comparative cohort study. Symphysiotomy was performed in 25 women who presented with obstructed labor.