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This retrospective chart review covered all patients with vulvodynia treated with gabapentin at a single facility between January of 2002 and September of 2004.
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Legro and colleagues, reporting for the Cooperative Multicenter Reproductive Medicine Network, presented the results of a multicenter, randomized trial indicating that clomiphene is superior to metformin in achieving live births in women with the polycystic ovary (PCO) syndrome.
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It has not been clear as to whether a cervical conization truly predisposes a patient to preterm birth (PTB). The authors of this enlightening paper set out to see if the interval between the procedure and subsequent conception had any effect on the incidence of PTB.
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Citalopram Useful for Depression in CDA Patients; When to Stop Anticoagulation Before Surgery?; Drug Warnings: Ranibizumab and Bevacizumab, Growth Hormone Treatment, More Harm Than Good, FDA Actions
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This is a prospective, randomized, multi-centered study from Sweden in which the psychological well-being of 125 women scheduled for hysterectomy was evaluated for up to 6 months post-operative. Of those enrolled, 119 completed the study with 56 undergoing abdominal hysterectomy and 63 having a laparoscopic hysterectomy.
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Black and colleagues reported the results of an extension of the alendronate Fracture Intervention Trial (FIT) in which the participants were randomized after 5 years of treatment either to another 5 years of treatment or placebo.
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Case and her co-authors performed a blinded and prospective evaluation of the accuracy of frozen section analysis in a cohort of 60 patients undergoing a surgical staging attempt. Their institutional policy was to formally stage all patients regardless of the uterine tumor characteristics.
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Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (NACT) for ovarian cancer refers specifically to the administration of cytotoxic therapy ahead of a planned surgical resection usually for primary therapy.