Volume 41, Number 7, July 1996

 
 
   
463
Fang-Ping Chen, M.D., Shuenn-Dyh Chang, M.D., Kiu-Kwong Chu, M.D., and Yung-Kuei Soong, M.D.
Presacral neurectomy provides longer-lasting of pain relief than laparoscopic uterine nerve ablation,though the procedure takes more time and entails more of an operative risk.
 
 


467
E. Scott Sills, M.D., David J. Zegarelli, D.D.S., Mordechai M. Hoschander, D.M.D., and William E. Strider, M.D., Ph.D.
For practitioners engaged in primary care obstetrics and gynecology, routine oral examination and proper identification of pyogenic granuloma are important to avoid misdiagnosis and overtreatment
 
 


471
Mo H. Saidi, M.D., Thierry G. Vancaillie, M.D., A. James White, M.D., R. Kent Sadler, M.D., Bruce D. Akright, M.D., and Scott A. Farhart, M.D.
In our experience, the incidence of overall complications is lower in operative laparoscopy than in standard gynecologic surgery.
 
 


478
Robert Pretorius, M.D., Mark Binstock, M.D., M.P.H., Masood Sadeghi, M.D., and Walter Hodges, M.D.
A smear suggestive of adenocarcinoma mandates strict evaluation, starting with biopsy and culminating with laparoscopy.
 
 


483
Kristen H. Kjerulff, Ph.D., Patricia Langenberg, Ph.D., Jeffrey D. Seidman, M.D., Paul D. Stolley, M.D., M.P.H., and Gay M. Guzinski, M.D.
Black women having hysterectomy had larger and more numerous leiomyomas, and the leiomyomas were more symptomatic than in white women despite a younger age at diagnosis and hysterectomy.
 
 


491
Robert Mittendorf, M.D., Dr.P.H., Kristine Y. Lain, M.D., Michelle A. Williams, Sc.D., and Cheryl K. Walker, M.D.
Primiparas who had urinary tract infections during pregnancy were five times more likely to have preeclampsia than were primiparas who did not.
 
 


497
Donald L. Fylstra, M.D., and James F. Carter, M.D.
Laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy in a teaching hospital decreased the need for an abdominal approach to one-third of all hysterectomies and doubled resident experience in vaginal surgery.
 
 


504
James Fanning, D.O., Sotirios N. Markuly, D.O., Travis L. Hindman, M.D., Phillip C. Galle, M.D., Mary Ann McRae, M.D., Patricia M. Visnesky, M.D., and Robert D. Hilgers, M.D.
The incidence of false positive malignant peritoneal cytology was 2% and of psammoma bodies was 5% when prospectively evaluating cytology obtained from peritoneal fluid.
 
 


509
Karen L. Reuter, M.D., Stephen Cohen, M.D., Linda Furey, R.N., and Stephen Baker, M.Sc.P.H.
Endometrial layering, endometrial thickness of at least 8 mm, a higher number of follicles (up to three) with an average of 15 mm and a serum estradiol level of at least 192 pg/mL correlated with a higher rate of conception.
 
 


515
Gregory A. L. Davies, M.D., Philip M. Hahn, M.Sc., and Michael M. J. McGrath, M.D.
Physicians have an accurate perception of the success of their patients who have a vaginal birth after a cesarean delivery, in keeping with the results in the literature.
 
 


521
Gwang S. Han, M.D.
Laparoscopy may assist in converting a potential total abdominal hysterectomy case to a vaginal route in very limited cases, probably in the range of 2-3%.
 
 


529
Alex C. Wang, M.D., F.I.C.S.
In this series, detrusor instability following continence procedures might have been the consequence of established postoperative outflow obstruction.
 
 


534
John D. O'Boyle, M.D., Keith A. Heslinger, M.D., and Sharon L. Hier-Duffin, D.O.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a rare but important cause of intraamniotic infection because of its high virulence.
 
 


537
Vern L. Katz, M.D., Jeffrey A. Kuller, M.D., M. Cathleen McCoy, M.D., and Wendy F. Hansen, M.D.
In a case of lupus pleuritis in pregnancy, serositis and nephritis led to maternal death.
 
 


541
Henry L. Galan, M.D., Mark B. Reedy, M.D., John Starr, M.D., and Alfred B. Knight, M.D.
This is the first report of the use of fresh frozen plasma for long-term prophylaxis in a pregnant woman with hereditary angioedema.