Attendance at rural and urban specialized prenatal clinics enhanced medical students� comfort in discussing spiritual beliefs, tribal ceremonies and complementary medicine with pregnant Native American women.

The twinning rate can be taken as a barometer of the population�s biologic attempt to perpetuate its gene pool expeditiously when an existential threat occurs.

Endometrial ablation performed under local anesthesia is a safe, feasible and efficacious procedure.

Previous molar pregnancy is the most important risk factor for molar pregnancy, followed by maternal age, history of previous abortion and consanguinity.

Increased sensitivity of tumor necrosis factor-alpha-dependent cyclooxygenase-2 expression in eutopic endometrial stromal cells from women with endometriosis may play a critical role in the pathophysiology of endometriosis development.

Both commercial human chorionic gonadotropin assays, which reacted with different human chorionic gonadotropin molecules, might be useful in the management of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia.

Resection of the abnormal placental implantation site, a conservative type of surgical management, was performed for 3 cases of placenta accreta diagnosed at delivery.

Accurate differentiation between primary breast tumors and metastases to breast is essential because treatment and prognosis vary.

A delayed complication of an ischiorectal abscess accompanied by an ischiorectal-vaginal fistula occurred after placement of a posterior intravaginal slingplasty.

The gynecologist should be wary of performing a hysterectomy during the postovulatory luteal phase of the menstrual cycle in those fertile women using no method of contraception because a preoperative pregnancy test will not be helpful prior to implantation.

An unusual case of nontraumatic/spontaneous clostridial gas gangrene occurred, localized to the adnexa in a postmenopausal woman and associated with occult endometrial carcinoma.

Laparoscopic gonadectomy was successfully performed to address a sexual differentiation disorder in a patient who previously received a kidney transplant.