Gynaecology and obstetrics

This volume presents the scientific advances and current status of our understanding of precision medicine for common diseases in gynecology and obstetrics.

This book presents state of the art knowledge aimed at understanding the clinical and socio-cultural factors that affect mental health of children and adolescents.

El presente libro es el resultado de la experiencia en investigación de la autora; plasma los resultados de investigaciones realizadas por ella en el grupo de investigación en Promoción de la Salud Promesa de la Universidad del Valle.

Este libro constituye la recopilación de diferentes capítulos que integra conocimientos de las ciencias básicas medicas y la semiológica, cuya aplicación es necesaria al enfrentarse a una paciente con una dolencia ginecológica u obstétrica.

Desde su publicación hace más de diez años, Pautas de Práctica Clínica en Ginecología ha acompañado la formación de múltiples generaciones de alumnos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y de muchas otras facultades de medicina de Chile y Latinoamérica.

This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art review of the diagnosis and management of retroperitoneal tumors.

This book examines the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on national and international jurisprudence, since its adoption in 1989.

This book presents new findings that deal with different facets of the well-being of children and their relevance to the proper treatment of children.

This book focuses on the prevention of child abuse and neglect deaths in the U.

This book (anupdated and extended edition) is about mobilizing women and health care policymakers and providers to unite their efforts in a single strategy for fightingcervical cancer worldwide.

This book discusses a rare form of female genital tract abnormality.

Progress in biomedical science has called for an international discussion of the medical, ethical, and legal problems that confront physicians, medical researchers, infertile couples, pregnant women, and parents of premature or disabled infants.

course, also aware that many who use this volume One in every three slides examined by a general diagnostic pathologist in the United Kingdom, and will be well familiar with the classical, or 'textbook', in most other countries, comes from a gynaecological appearances of most of the more common conditions patient.

In Memoriam xiii Preface xvii Chapter 1 Development, Mechanisms of Action and Evaluation of IUD Performance 2 Chapter 2 IUD Insertion 28 Chapter 3 Uterine Perforation 54 Chapter 4 Pelvic Inflammatory Disease 92 Chapter 5 Bleeding 138 Chapter 6 Cervical and Uterine Pathology 158 Chapter 7 Intrauterine Pregnancy 172 Chapter 8 Ectopic Pregnancy 194 Chapter 9 Return to Fertility after IUD Discontinuation 222 Chapter 10 IUD Complications in Perspective 232 Appendices 243 Index 253 Foreword Ever since Hippocrates observed that foreign bodies placed in the uterus would help to prevent pregnan- cy, periodic interest in this information and its use has resulted in attempts to control unwanted fertil- ity.

The International Federation of Fertility Societies XI World Congress on Fertility and Sterility took place in Ireland at the Royal Dublin Society from the 26th June-1st July, 1983.

This book concisely presents the essential information in the field of gyneco- logic endocrinology.

The decision taken during the First International Congress on the Menopause in June 1976 to repeat the exercise 2 years later turned out to be a good one.

The suggestion of Max Knoll that an electron fascinated by the numerous SEM photographs, the wealth of information and the enthusiasm of the microscope could be developed using a fine scanning researchers covering a variety of disciplines.

In Vitro Fertilization, Embryo Transfer and Early Pregnancy is undoubtably the most exciting and onwardly progressing field in reproductive medicine today.

The no-man's-land between reproductive physiology and immunology is becoming crowded.

The image of obstetrics as a largely manipulative art has changed radically in recent years.

The Eighth Brook Lodge Conference on Problems of Reproductive Physiology is the latest in a series of small meetings held over 18 years.

This is the fourth in a series of books on Advances in Prostaglandin Research published by MTP Press.

The peri-menopause is emerging more and more as a subject for study by the doctor, the psychologist, the social worker, the gerontologist, the clinical chemist, the public health specialist, the sociologist, the psychiatrist and the experimental pathologist.

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Despite the increasing number of andrological pub- opment of basic and clinical research in andrology, lications, the diagnostic aspects of andrology have to analyze modern techniques for the evaluation of received relatively little attention.

Honourable Chairman, distinguished speakers, ladies and gentlemen, May & Baker, Singapore is proud to play a part in organizing and hosting this symposium.

The need to improve maternal and child health care may be the most important global health need of the remaining years of the twentieth century.

Three International Congresses on the Menopause have been held during the last five years, evidence of the explosive increase in the scient- ific study of this subject.

Advances in research, knowledge and clinical practice in all branches of medicine have been rapid over the past decades and the speed is accelerating.

The treatment of menopausal and postmenopausal symptoms is a focus of considerable debate, on account of both the medical and social factors involved.

This book contains a consensus on menopause research, a consensus reached during the First International Congress on the Menopause in June, 1976.

Years of involvement, firsthand experience and research at the Menopause Clinic of the Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, exist as the background to this book.

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The commonest cause of blindness in young and middle-aged people in the Western world is diabetes mellitus.

Despite the fact that the average woman spends one third of her life after the menopause, medical research has been devoted almost entirely to the repro- ductive period of her life span.

Despite its universality in human female aging, the menopause and its biology are not completely understood.

Despite a plethora of theories, premenstrual syndrome (PMS) has remained an enigma.

Reproductive Immunology is a compilation of research articles presented during the VII International Congress of Reproductive Immunology which was held in New Delhi, India on 27-30 October 1998.

Endometriosis provides a unique clinical and scientific challenge.

The most comprehensive review available today, Marshall's Physiology of Reproduction is the classic reference source for teachers and researchers of animal reproduction.

Breast cancer is not only a burning public issue, but very soon we shall see genetic testing for a woman's predisposition to breast cancer.

This series of volumes dealing with reproductive health care has as its primary objective the improvement of the quality of human reproduction.

The subject matter in this volume was derived from papers presented at the Pediatric Andrology session of the 1st Pan American Congress of Andrology held in Caracas, Venezuela in February 1979, as well as from selected additional manuscripts of interest in this field.