Zentralblatt für Gynäkologie

OBJECTIVE: Examining the consequences of temporary postoperative hormone replacement therapy following hysterectomy for the function of the ovaries and the subjective well-being of women. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Hormone profiles (Estradiol, …

319 Patients are retrospectively competed, which underwent an inpatient or outpatient gynecological laparoscopy in 1992. Equality exists for martial status, education degree, nationality, anesthesiological risk and social structure. Outpati…

After bioptical diagnosis of endometriosis, 81 patients were treated with GnRH-agonists buserelin or leuprolide for six months. Biopsies before and after treatment were used to test a semiquantitative score-system, regarding atrophy of glan…

Beside of other cytokines and growth-factors Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha (TNF-alpha) exerts as a macrophage-derived cytotoxic product a variety of immunologic effects in the human organism. It is also an important angiogenetic factor and re…

Medical oestrogen suppressive therapy has to be considered as an important principle in the management of endometriosis. In the last years GnRHa became the "gold standard" as pre or postoperative measures before/after surgical intervention.…

The histological diagnoses of 109 cystic adnexal masses were compared with the results of ultrasound examination, color, cytology and biochemical analyses of cystic fluid. In cases with suspicious results by ultrasound examination most of t…

Antiandrogens or progestins with an antiandrogenic component usually have only a weak antigonadotropic activity. It is thus possible that the antiandrogenic effect on the cellular level is cancelled or at least reduced by an increased ovari…

63 cases of adenomatous endometrial hyperplasia (1st-3rd degree) were diagnosed by hysteroscopy and D&C at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of Greifswald from January 1991 to December 1994. In 40 patients with …

We report a case of parenchymal pulmonary endometriosis in combination with severe endometriosis genitalis externa. The difficulties on the way to final diagnosis are described, also the different possibilities of hormonal treatment that re…

Endometriosis is a chronic benign proliferative disease with high risk of recurrences, despite of medical and/or surgical treatment. The variation and severity of symptoms reduce the quality of life, the ability of working and the sexual be…

For conservative therapy of endometrial hyperplasia drugs and local surgery measures are taken into consideration. For medical therapy the following drugs are considered: Gestagens, danazol, GnRH-agonists/antagonists and for medical post tr…

In 130 sterile women undergoing first look laparoscopy we found in 86.9% patent tubes. In this group in 34.5% an endometriosis was discovered. All patients with closed tubes had no signs of endometriosis. In a second look laparoscopy we fou…

The use of a 1.2 mm microendoscope is compared to the conventional laparoscopy technique in this study. In 22 sterility patients and 23 patients suffering from chronic pelvic pain the high diagnostic value of the microendoscope is shown. On…

Kupperman-index, weight, blood pressure, serum lipids, blood count, thrombocytes, fibrinogen, thrombine time, electrolytes, enzymes, serum proteins, bilirubine and other parameters were studied in 16 healthy post-menopausal women treated fo…

Using technological progress, laparoscopic lymphadenectomy is becoming the standard for staging of pelvic cancer. In the same way more extensive procedures such as para-aortic lymph nodes dissection and radical hysterectomy have been demons…

In a prospective study in 40 patients the pretreatment for endometrial ablation with a gestagen (Orgametril 10 mg/die), danazol (600 mg/die) and an injection of a GnRH-analogon (Decapeptyl-Depot) was compared with a control group without pr…

Therapy of endometriosis with a GnRH-agonist (Leuprorelin) demonstrated a good therapeutical efficiency. As a side effect it had a significant negative impact on trabecular bone mass (non significant on cortical bone) as measured by DXA. Ri…

In a previous study 198 patients with histologically confirmed endometriosis underwent a "three-step" therapy, where surgical removal of endometriosis implants was followed by a 6 months treatment with 3.75 mg leuprorelinacetate depot as mo…

A 30-year-old primigravida experienced spontaneous uterine rupture at 18 weeks of gestation. The etiology for the rupture was an extensive, heavily decidualized adenomyosis. Although adenomyosis is relatively common, complications are rare.

We report on a 50-year-old woman with a decompensated alcoholic liver cirrhosis and Korsakow syndrome since 1991. In July 1992, an abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingoophorectomy was made because of an endometrial carcinoma pT1NOM…

The report is given about 154 patients, who were operated because of chronic abdominal pain in the lower abdomen 27 (17.5%), suspicion of adhesion 43 (27.9%), of an adnexal tumor 56 (33.8%), of endometriosis 5 (3.2%), sterility 11 (10%), or…

59 patients with extensive mastopathia, aged between 23 and 58 years, had been examined over a period of approximately 36 months. They were treated with danazol (Winobanin, Sanofi-Winthrop, Munich) at doses between 100 and 800 mg/day becaus…

A hysteroscopic endometrial ablation (HEA) under maximal anesthesiologic surveillance was performed on 34 high-risk patients (group I: chronic anticoagulant therapy n = 26; group II: endogenous coagulopathy n = 8) with therapy resistant men…