The Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of the British Commonwealth

Summary A case of rupture of an endometriotic cyst in late pregnancy is reported. This is a rare problem giving rise to an acute abdomen with a clinical picture similar to abruptio placentae. Points in differential diagnosis and management …

Summary A search of the literature has failed to reveal previous reports of obstructed labour due to stromal endometriosis or sarcoma. Such a case is here recorded. A biopsy was taken at Caesarean section and hysterectomy four weeks later c…

Summary Homogenates of human endometrium from different stages of the menstrual cycle were incubated with strips of copper foil and with cupric ions. The alkaline photophatase activity in homogenates exposed to metallic copper was reduced o…

Summary A case is presented of unilateral ureteric obstruction, with hypertension, due to extrinsic endometrosis successfully treated by pe l vic radical surgery and ureteric lysis.

summary A case of menorrhagia due to a cirsoid aneurysm of the uterus is reported.

Summary The occurrence of cystic glandular hyperplasia of the endometrium in adolescent girls has been reviewed. This condition has been diagnosed much less frequently in the South‐Eastern Region of Scotland than in previously reported seri…

Summary A lesion consisting of isolated foci of endometrial stroma in the ovarian cortex is discribed. These become common from about the age of 40 years, although they are sometimes present earlier, and effect more than a third of all ovar…

Summary A detailed study of the arterial and venous patterns in human uteri with endometrial hyperplasia, adenomyosis and polypi by using an injection technique coupled with microradiography and histology is described and the possible cause…

Summary Clinical evidence of oedema was found in 69 out of 83 women selected during early pregnancy as being healthy; 11 of the 83 developed some hypertension during late pregnancy. Measurements of body weight, leg volume, ankle circumferen…