Women who have undergone a tubal ligation are more likely than those who have not to report stress interfering with sex and seeing a physician about sexual problems.

Surgical treatment of persistent adnexal masses in pregnancy is justified because of the high risk of torsion, rupture and malignancy and does not impair pregnancy outcome.

Many candidates for progesterone to prevent preterm birth are not offered the drug.

Postoperative femoral motor neuropathy can be diagnosed by the gynecologist and the patients referred directly for physical therapy.

Women with a previous stillbirth have favorable outcomes in a subsequent pregnancy.

Amniotic fluid index is a poor predictor of an adverse intrapartum or perinatal outcome in pregnancies complicated by the HELLP syndrome.

The high false positive rate of the fasting and postprandial plasma glucose tests, alone or in combination, makes them unsuitable to screen for gestational diabetes in early pregnancy.

Activation of TGF-b1 is increased at sites of endometriosis because production of urokinase-type plasminogen activator by the glandular epithelium is enhanced and plasmin activates TGF-b1.

The data demonstrate a strong correlation between decreasing uterine and peripheral arterial resistance and increasing hGH-V during normal pregnancies.

Since twin fetuses simultaneously exposed to the same maternal influence had a completely different outcome, maternal factors play a limited role in influencing CMV transmission.

The diagnostic criteria for ovarian pregnancy established in 1878 by Spiegelberg are in need of revision due to advanced surgical techniques and the potential for conservative management.

A second case of tampon-associated toxic shock-like syndrome was attributed to group B Streptococcus.

A clinical dilemma was encountered in the management of a young woman with endometrial polyp adenosarcoma because of the necessity to preserve her fertility.

Despite the advantage of lack of atrophogenicity, topical immunosuppressants should be used with caution in premalignant conditions such as vulvar lichen sclerosus.

Ultrasound-guided injection of methotrexate may be a useful means of managing an unruptured interstitial pregnancy to preserve the entirety of the uterus after failed systemic methotrexate treatment.

A case of congenital uterine arteriovenous malformation was diagnosed prior to conception, and without intervention, a healthy infant was born at term.

A 31-year-old woman who developed a renal angiomyolipoma with spontaneous bleeding at 12 weeks' gestation underwent elective, simultaneous cesarean section and radical nephrectomy at 38 weeks' gestation.

An extremely rare case of benign schwannoma (peripheral nerve sheath tumor) occurred in the anterior vaginal wall.