All women with urinary incontinence should be initially offered nonsurgical therapy since a large percentage will obtain satisfactory results.

Laparoscopically guided transabdominal uterine needle biopsy proved to be a simple, rapid and safe method of obtaining a myometrial specimen to investigate the presence of diffuse adenomyosis.

Laparoscopy can be advantageous for certain procedures but has little advantage for hysterectomy and may make fewer vaginal hysterectomies available for resident education.

Laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy using the Endo GIA stapler and ligature hysterectomy technique may be a viable and safe alternative for the single surgeon.

In pregnant women without bulging membranes, emergency cervical cerclage can be effective in prolonging gestation.

Cellular material collected in a cervical scrape is sufficient to prepare at least five satisfactory smears.

The final shape of the female pelvis seems to be determined by culture and environment as well as by genetics.

Complete amenorrhea with endometrial rollerball ablation is best accomplished with a preoperative preparation that achieves excellent endometrial atrophy.

A case of primary hyperaldosteronism in pregnancy was treated successfully with unilateral adrenalectomy in the early second trimester.

This case is unique because gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist administration was utilized as both a diagnostic and therapeutic modality.

These results provide further evidence of genetic heterogeneity in the etiology of 46,XY sex reversal.

The tenth and youngest reported patient with vulvar dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans illustrated that survival rates of 91-100% follow very wide local excision.

Operative videolaparoscopy was successfully employed to identify and resect bilateral intraabdominal gonads without complications

A woman with an asymptomatic pelvic mass and rising serum CA-125 levels proved to have pelvic tuberculosis.

Ultrasonography and computed tomography were invaluable in the diagnosis and guided drainage of rare psoas cesses complicating delivery.

Laser uterosacral nerve ablation should be performed with caution on women whose occupation or life-style is associated with heavy physical labor or exercises producing marked increases in intraabdominal pressure.

The most common malignant tumor of the skin, basal cell carcinoma, is rare and was detected in the vulvar skin of four patients.

Pregnancy was successful in a patient who had undergone the Fontan procedure for tricuspid atresia seven years earlier.

Transvaginal closure of a colovaginal fistula resulting from diverticular disease failed although performed under optimal conditions.

After three cases of laparoscopic oophorectomy and salpingo-oophorectomy, intraabdominal bleeding occurred.