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Laparoscopic management of fallopian tube prolapse masquerading as adenocarcinoma of the vagina in a hysterectomized woman

open access: yesBMC Women's Health, 2002
Background Fallopian tube prolapse as a complication of abdominal hysterectomy is a rare occurrence. A case with fallopian tube prolapse was managed by a combined vaginal and laparoscopic approach and description of the operative technique is presented ...
Kucuk Mustafa
doaj   +1 more source

Inflammation is a key contributor to ovarian cancer cell seeding. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The incidence of ovarian cancer dramatically increases in early menopause but the factors contributing to cancer onset are unclear. Most ovarian cancers originate in the fallopian tube with subsequent implantation of malignant cells into the ovary ...
Jia, Dongyu   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Fallopian Tube: Report of a Case Series and Review of the Literature.

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecological Pathology, 2017
Primary neuroendocrine tumors of the fallopian tube are extremely rare with a few reported cases of high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma and a single report of a carcinoid tumor arising in a teratoma.
Katherine Grondin   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Living with acuteness in chronic illness: The temporal underpinnings of endometriosis

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how acuteness is experienced by people with endometriosis in Finland. Drawing on in‐depth interviews as well as anonymous written endometriosis stories, we trace instances when the sense of chronicity and cyclicality of endometriosis is disrupted by a possibility of risk to life. These instances include when endometriosis
Venla Oikkonen, Elina Helosvuori
wiley   +1 more source

Slippery Knowledge: Ignorance, Ecologies, and Environment in Endometriosis Framing

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite a growing body of literature linking environmental toxins and endometriosis, environmental issues make only occasional appearances in public, patient, and specialist conversations about endometriosis. These conversations may hover at the edges of public discourse, but do not gain traction.
Andrea Ford
wiley   +1 more source

Smooth Muscle Mechanosensitivity Generates and Maintains Pressure Gradients Across the Intestine

open access: yesNeurogastroenterology &Motility, EarlyView.
Mechanosensitivity of the smooth muscle induces a positive‐feedback loop that spontaneously generates pressure gradients across gut segments and stabilizes initially applied pressure gradients. It can act jointly or compete with the pressure gradient induced by directional peristaltic waves.
Richard J. Amedzrovi Agbesi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incidence and Outcomes of Surgically Managed Ectopic Pregnancy in Women With Disabilities: A Population‐Based Cross‐Sectional Study

open access: yesPaediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Disparities in the incidence, management, and outcomes of ectopic pregnancy have been documented among marginalised patients; however, there are few data on ectopic pregnancy in women with disabilities. Objective To compare the incidence and outcomes of surgically managed ectopic pregnancy in women with and without disability ...
Natalie V. Scime   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A theory for the tissue specificity of BRCA1/2 related and other hereditary cancers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Women who inherit a defective BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene have risks for breast and ovarian cancer that are so high and seem so selective that many mutation carriers choose to have prophylactic surgery. There has been much conjecture to explain such apparently
Bernard Friedenson
core   +1 more source

Angiotensin II receptors and angiotensin II stimulation of ciliary activity in human fallopian tube. [PDF]

open access: bronze, 1996
Ertan Sarıdoğan   +6 more
openalex   +1 more source

Spaceborne and spaceborn: Physiological aspects of pregnancy and birth during interplanetary flight

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Crewed interplanetary return missions that are on the planning horizon will take years, more than enough time for initiation and completion of a pregnancy. Pregnancy is viewed as a sequence of processes – fertilization, blastocyst formation, implantation, gastrulation, placentation, organogenesis, gross morphogenesis, birth and neonatal ...
Arun V. Holden
wiley   +1 more source

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