The survival of patients with synchronous primaries correlates with the stage of the individual tumors; a second, synchronous primary does not adversely affect prognosis.

We recommend that patients with one normal smear after an initial cytologic diagnosis of ASCUS favoring LSIL be followed with serial smears until two or three normal smears are obtained.

New diagnostic methods greatly reduce the need for laparoscopy to diagnose or rule out ectopic pregnancy.

In most cases, the outpatient loop electrosurgical excision procedure can replace inpatient cold knife conization as a diagnostic procedure for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.

The factors classically associated with ectopic pregnancy remained similar over a period of about 50 years; the association with voluntary interruption of pregnancy still seems controversial.

In the human neonate, amnioinfusion with normal saline is not associated with hyperchloremia.

A 5-mg dose of PGE2 gel was neither more effective nor associated with more side effects than the more commonly used 2.5-mg dose.

When one takes into account the efficacy, safety and cost of the three methods of obtaining cervical cytologic smears in pregnant women, the Ayre spatula/cotton swab is the most satisfactory.

The judicious use of operative vaginal delivery and attention to the course of labor may ultimately be most helpful in preventing neonatal injury at birth.

Maternal glucose metabolism is altered in nonhypertensive pregnancies, with a risk of delayed fetal growth; however, the fetal glucose response may remain normal in the face of fetal growth retardation.

We were unable to demonstrate any significant effect on pregnancy rates or suboptimal human chorionic gonadotropin timing resulting from a the lack of Sunday services.

Apparently the puncturing needle created a fistulous tract through which the ascitic fluid was forced into the subcutaneous tissues, presenting as unilateral vulvar edema.

In this case, a totally unexpected event occurred: coarctation of the umbilical cord of the recipient and the recipient's subsequent death.