While uterine scar dehiscence is associated with preterm delivery, number of previous cesarean deliveries and nonprogress in the first stage of labor, multiparity has a significant protective effect.

Gadolinium is a safe, cost-effective and clinically useful alternative for hysterosalpingography in patients with iodinated contrast hypersensitivity.

Hysterosalpingography identifies a low prevalence of tubal abnormalities in women seeking sterilization reversal and should play no role in assessment of the proximal oviductal segment in women requesting sterilization reversal.

Histologic chorioamnionitis is a reliable indicator of infection whether or not it is clinically apparent.

Men absorb vaginal estrogen cream during intercourse, and serum estradiol levels are markedly lower after intercourse in women using such cream.

Triptorelin induces estradiol, luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone secretion similar to that induced by human chorionic gonadotropin but with lower progesterone production.

Some parameters can be used as predictors of tuboovarian abscess in women with acute pelvic inflammatory disease.

Third-trimester amniocentesis carries a low complication rate, and all complications are self-limited.

Foci of endometritis may cause noncatemenial symptoms, so endometriosis must be considered during evaluation of an umbilical mass despite the lack of pathognomonic symptoms.

An unusual case occurred of acute colonic pseudoobstruction and preterm labor during twin pregnancy complicated by twin-twin transfusion syndrome.

Haemophilus influenzae infection caused stillbirth at 32 weeks and subsequent maternal bacteremia and generalized infection.

A patient developed a perineal endometrioma following an operative vaginal delivery and then had progression of the endometrioma during the next pregnancy.

Perinatal transmission of Trichomonas vaginalis occurs rarely and is a negative consequence of untreated trichomoniasis in pregnancy.

Shoulder dystocia not relieved by the usual maneuvers resolved with spontaneous separation of the symphysis pubis.

Uterine incarceration in the early second trimester was managed conservatively with a favorable outcome, with spontaneous resolution occurring at 20 weeks.

Topical application of magnesium sulfate can be used to reduce an extensive cervical prolapse in labor.