Urology

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When patients present with pelvic pain, the list of diseases to consider is long and includes ectopic pregnancy, acute salpingitis, a variety of sexually transmitted diseases, acute dysmenorrhea, cervicitis, endometriosis, fibroids, and uterine inversion. But in your search for gynecologic causes, dont overlook common neurologic disorders outlined in this article.

Therapeutic successes and a trend toward delaying childbearing now permit survivors of breast, ovarian, endometrial, and cervical cancers to consider future fertility. How should this affect the advice you offer your patients?

Once a rare complication of pregnancy, the incidence of placenta accreta has continued to increase since the 1930s. An expert on the disorder outlines the best approach to diagnosis and management.

Androgen insensitivity

controversy about varicocelectomy treating male-factor infertility

controversy regarding use of varicocelectomy for treatment of male-factor infertility

Innovations like HDTV laparoscopy and virtual colonoscopy--which once were only science fiction--will continue transforming surgery and the OR as we know them today.

Considering the number of severe maternal and fetal complications that can result from untreated hypertension, ob/gyns must be vigilant about recognizing the chronic form of the disease. Anything less puts your patients and you in harm's way.

Gives criteria for evaluating and diagnosing bleeding disorders in newborns and tells how to differentiate such disorders in newborns, children, and adults.

malpractice articles

Understanding the normal sexual response cycle is being revised.

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in vitro fertilization

understanding screening tests