Disease-adapted relapse therapy for ovarian cancer: results of a prospective study.

Primary therapy of advanced ovarian cancer is standardized, the therapy in relapsed ovarian cancer however is still controversial. In a prospective study the benefit of secondary surgery and/or second-line chemotherapy were evaluated. 139 patients with relapsed ovarian cancer were stratified according to a treatment plan: patients with early relapse (recurrence-free interval 12 months) or primary progression during chemotherapy (n=43) were treated chemotherapeutically with etoposide (p.

[HLA compatibility and susceptibility to habitual abortion. Results of histocompatibility testing of couples with frequent miscarriages].

We have performed class I HLA antigen testing in 42 women with recurrent habitual abortions and in their husbands. The main criterion for inclusion in this group was a frequency of more than two abortions without the known reasons for abortion and without a living child. 29 couples with a least two healthy children and no abortion in the clinical history served as a control group.

[Clinical and immunologic results of immunotherapy with pooled buffy coat transfusions in females with habitual abortion].

In a multicenter study we have evaluated the effect of immunotherapy with pooled buffy coats on women with habitual abortions. 21 women were selected under the same criteria with respect to clinical, immunological and blood banking conditions. All women have had at least two miscarriages with the same partner and no living child (except one case).

[Haemangiopericytoma of the uterus - importance and incidence of this tumor in the uterus].

Reported in this paper is the case of a woman, 43 years of age, with malignant haemangiopericytoma. The patient had undergone radical surgery and irradiation, following diagnosis of globucellular sarcoma. Metastasis occurred after an interval of six years from surgery.

[Experience from palliative chemotherapy for advanced ovarian carcinoma - progress report on hospital with outpatient department at district level (author's transl)].

Reported in this paper is progress obtained from palliative treatment of patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma in an area under the control of a district hospital, between 1957 and 1978. Particular reference is made to the favourable effects of combination chemotherapy on survival rates and general condition. This study is intended to underline that the above therapeutic approach should not be restricted to few highly specialised centres and that it is practicable to the benefit of the patients concerned also under routine conditions at district hospitals.

[Influence on the programmed labour of some perinatological parameter (author's transl)].

In a critical analysis the obstetric results of individual induced labour (socalled "programmed labour") are compared with a series of births with spontaneous start of labour and of indicated induced deliveries. The results shows a much superior outcome of programmed labour: a shorter period of labour, a much reduced number of cesarean sections, a lower frequency of hypoxia, fewer newborn with pronounced Clifford-signs. The technical, personal and organisational efforts in modern obstetric is enormous increased.

[Amnioscopy as a routine method--results of 9 years experience].

In the 9-years period (1967 to 1975) we are using the amnioscopy increasing generously. Nevertheless the percentage on pathological findings of the amniotic fluid altogether and in the seperate groups of indication is nearly has been always the same. It is'nt exact correlation between the severity of the symptoms of risk and the occurrence of the pathological findings in the amniotic fluid.