Despite the commonly held impression that leiomyomas tend to enlarge during the course of pregnancy, this phenomenon is, in fact, quite rare.

Because of the increasing trend of women starting childbearing in their 30s and the increased risk for poor outcomes in older women, health providers need to pay extra attention to this group of women.

As the number of enucleated fibroids increased, the risk of residual fibroids and recurrence tended to increase.

Abnormal antenatal fetal heart rate nonstress testing is independently associated with increased maternal intervention in labor.

Any circumstance that affects the amount of available IGF so as to modify the sensitivity of the ovary to FSH appears to govern and define the rate of spontaneous twinning.

In handling pregnancies in which fetuses possess balanced chromosome rearrangements, detailed obstetric ultrasound examinations and parental karyotyping should be part of the workup.

Meconium-stained amniotic fluid and umbilical cord plasma motilin do not affect the development of infantile colic.

The protein:creatinine ratio for screening and 12-hour total protein for diagnosis are an accurate and rapid means of diagnosing preeclampsia.

Two patients with a symptomatic, benign metastasizing leiomyomas of the lung underwent oophorectomy, but 1 failed to respond and was treated successfully with raloxifene.

A gravida with an uncommon continent urinary diversion (Mitrofanoff procedure) underwent preterm premature rupture of the membranes, preterm labor, breech presentation and cesarean delivery.

Hemoperitoneum should be included in the differential diagnosis when a pregnant woman experiences acute-onset, severe abdominal pain, even without abdominal trauma.

A 29-year-old primigravida with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia was successfully managed in pregnancy with an implanted cardioverter defibrillator and a beta blocker.

A spontaneous heterotopic pregnancy had an unusual presentation after laparoscopic surgical management of ectopic pregnancies involving each of the fallopian tubes.

An incisional bladder hernia presented as refractory urinary urgency after pelvic surgery, and an accurate diagnosis allowed resolution of the urgency.

This case demonstrates the importance of testing high-risk patients for tuberculosis prior to the start of long-term oral glucocorticoid therapy.

Bilateral uterine artery embolization for symptomatic leiomyomata was complicated by small bowel volvulus requiring bowel resection.

This was the first reported case of intermediate trophoblast found in a cesarean scar diverticulum.

The first case of non-sexually acquired squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix is described.

The incidence of solid tumors in Down syndrome patients is extremely rare or nonexistent, and this case calls attention to reproductive pathology in long-lived women with Down syndrome.

We report a case of the second twin delivered at term after miscarriage of the first twin at 17 weeks of gestation.

An unsuspected, asymptomatic, intraomental Dalkon Shield placed 30 years earlier became a source of pelvic pain, consistent with perimenopausal intraabdominal fat redistribution as a possible etiology.