abstract：:Adolescent pregnancy and its consequences continue as major sources of morbidity in the United States. A teenager who becomes a parent is at a significant disadvantage in becoming a contributing adult, both psychosocially and economically. The physician who cares for adolescents has the responsibility of helping paren...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Cromer BA,Brown RT

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists as adjunctive therapy with gonadotropins for ovulation induction in in vitro fertilization and other assisted reproductive technologies has become common clinical practice. With the recent advent of potent gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonists free from the marke...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Gordon K,Danforth DR,Williams RF,Hodgen GD

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past year, new data have been published on the molecular biology of human papillomavirus infections and their relationship to cervical neoplasia. As molecular techniques have become more sophisticated and as the molecular knowledge of human papilloma-virus infections has been pursued in greater depth, it is inc...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Richart RM,Wright TC Jr

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1991, the abortion literature was characterized by articles relating to 1) epidemiologic issues in abortion care, 2) advances in knowledge and experience with medical abortifacients such as mifepristone (RU 486), and 3) cervical ripening prior to abortion with the use of both mifepristone and prostaglandins. Techni...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Blumenthal PD

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the period under review (December 1990 through January 1992), the revised World Health Organization Histological Classification of Ovarian Neoplasms and Tumor-like Lesions was completed, and it is presented herein. This system of classification incorporates recent advances and includes newly recognized entities...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Talerman A

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of the placenta may be viewed as a diary of the pregnancy. Apart from its immediate diagnostic value, it can also broadly serve two purposes: 1) it provides a method of auditing antenatal clinical judgment by clinicopathologic correlation, and 2) it makes an important contribution in the context of unsolve...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Gillan JE

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired immunodeficiency virus infections had recently been the leading cause of death in minority women of reproductive age in several urban cities in the United States. In addition, more than 80% of infants with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection acquired the infection perinatally. These alarming data ha...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Sison AV

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews psychologic aspects of sexual abuse in female adolescents. It documents that sexual abuse is widespread, occurring at an alarming rate at all socioeconomic levels of society. It is perpetrated principally by adult men in the victim's family. Often its effects are tragic. Adolescent female sexual abu...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Jeffrey TB,Jeffrey LK

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review discusses studies documenting an increase in birth rate associated with in vitro fertilization and gamete intrafallopian transfer. The results of zygote intrafallopian transfer are also encouraging. The rates of chromosomal and congenital abnormalities in assisted reproduction are similar to the rates at w...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Craft I,al-Shawaf T

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary incontinence remains a common problem that adversely affects the quality of life of millions of women. In detrusor instability, treatment measures often lack efficacy or are accompanied by unacceptable side effects. In this review, standard treatments are discussed, together with recent pharmacologic advances ...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Wise B,Cardozo L

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many different disease processes can result in a phenotype of hirsutism, anovulation, and oligomenorrhea or amenorrhea. An important goal of reproductive endocrinologists is to identify specific genetic diseases that can produce the hyperandrogenic phenotype. Two genetic disorders that can result in the hyperandrogeni...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Barbieri RL

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early ectopic pregnancy screening using vaginal ultrasonographic technology together with measurement of beta human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-hCG) and human chorionic somatomammotropin is possible within the first 2 weeks of the missing menses, prior to the appearance of symptoms. This article summarizes the main a...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Mettler L

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past year has seen major challenges to existing maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein testing protocols for both neural tube defects and chromosomal anomalies. These challenges are reviewed along with the physiology of alpha-fetoprotein; the use of amniocentesis, ultrasonography, and additional serum markers in women w...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Drugan A,Dvorin E,Obrien JE,Johnson MP,Evans MI

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infertility is a common medical problem resulting from one or more defects in the reproductive tract. Of the known causes of infertility, cervico-utero-tubal factors are important because they are generally manageable. Cervical factors include changes in cervical architecture, mucus, or both, resulting in a hostile en...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Markham S

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of invasive vulvar malignancy has become more individualized during the past decade. In the past, radical vulvectomy with bilateral inguinofemoral lymphadenectomy was the standard therapy for invasive squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma of the vulva. This is no longer always the case. The treatment of stage...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Girtanner RE,Kaufman RH

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various malignant neoplasms, either primary or secondary, can affect the vagina. The most common primary malignant tumors of the vagina are squamous cell cancers; however, they are among the most uncommon of all primary gynecologic cancers. Vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia is being diagnosed with increasing frequency...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Benedet JL

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reflective of increasing attention to male sterilization are the development in China of the so-called "no scalpel" vasectomy technique, experiments with predicting reversibility through measurement of the cytometry of testicular aspirates, and research on issues such as the effects of vasectomy on spermatogenesis...

journal_title：Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology

authors： Davis JE

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00