Complications due to adhesion formation following cesarean sections: a review of deliveries in three cases.

Objective: To describe complications due to adhesion formation following cesarean sections and methods to prevent adhesion formation.

Design: Case reports.

Setting: Labor and delivery suites in three hospitals.

Osteomyelitis of the pubic symphysis in pregnancy.

Background: Pubic symphysis osteomyelitis during the antepartum period of pregnancy is rare.

Case: We report a patient in the third trimester who presented with pubic pain, low-grade fever, and altered gait. She was found to have a retropubic abscess at the time of cesarean delivery.

Saphenous vein sparing during inguinal lymphadenectomy to reduce morbidity in patients with vulvar carcinoma.

Objectives: To compare short- and long-term morbidity associated with saphenous vein sparing versus ligation during inguinal lymphadenectomy for vulvar carcinoma.

Methods: A retrospective evaluation of patients with carcinoma of the vulva that underwent inguinal lymphadenectomy was performed. Operative reports were evaluated and patients were divided into those who had sparing of the saphenous vein versus ligation.