Endometrial stripe differs between women with a miscarriage, and intrauterine and ectopic pregnancy, with considerable overlap; a cutoff of 21 mm excludes 99% of ectopics.

Intrapartum electronic fetal heart rate monitoring lacks precision in identifying systemic fetal inflammation, a condition predisposing to the development of neonatal encephalopathy.

Asian American patients presenting for routine examination have a higher prevalence of stage 2 pelvic prolapse than white or black patients.

Cord blood adiponectin levels are relatively high as compared with those in adults, and the source is the fetus and not the mother or placenta.

Our validation study on the Nurses' Health Study II cohort identified a simple method of assessing incident premenstrual syndrome in large, prospective, epidemiologic studies.

Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics teaching objectives, covered ACGME competency and predicted performance on standardized examinations.

Mid to high placental weight excluded the diagnosis of almost all small-for-gestational-age neonates, particularly among women whose placentas were weighed at <32 weeks' gestation.

The risk of ectopic pregnancy is increased in women with an adverse obstetric history that includes interrupted pregnancies.

Outcome of in vitro fertilization and ovarian response parameters in women with previous unilateral endometrioma stripping at laparoscopy and laparotomy indicate that a higher amount of follicle-stimulating hormone is needed to achieve an acceptable in vitro fertilization outcome.

Although the relationship between this chromosomal translocation and the DNA fragility in these patients is not well understood, this study showed for the first time a link between the presence of this novel chromosomal translocation and complete early embryonic lethality.

Ser128Arg E-selectin and Thr715Pro P-selectin polymorphisms had no impact on the risk of severe preeclampsia, but Thr715Pro P-selectin polymorphism was associated with the onset of hypertension.

A multimodal approach with optimal multiagent combination chemotherapy and adjuvant surgery and irradiation has resulted in a remission rate of 92% in patients with high-risk GTN.

Adrenomedullin receptor was found in fetal membranes and placenta, and its localization and distribution changed with advancing gestation.

Invasive mole, a low grade malignant variant of gestational trophoblastic tumor, can be fatal because of acute uterine perforation.

Thoracentesis provides beneficial effects as the initial treatment for fetal hydrothorax prior to thoracoamniotic shunting.

Identifications of zygosity and chorionicity in a twin pregnancy early in gestation will direct clinical management.

A large, symptomatic, prolapsing vaginal cyst initially thought to be a myxoma or Gartner's duct (mesonephric) cyst was treated with simple excision.

Retained fetal bones after termination of pregnancy can present many years after the termination.

Although rescue urinary human chorionic gonadotropin and oocyte pickup had not been tried before, triggering an endogenous luteinizing hormone surge with gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist in a gonadotropin releasing hormone antagonist cycle resulted in zona-free germinal vesicle oocytes.

A 33-year-old woman with Mayer-Rokitansky-K�ster-Hauser syndrome underwent vaginoplasty using acellular human dermal allograft material, but vaginal stenosis resulted from inadequate postoperative dilatation.