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10 September 2010
Timothy B. Hutchings, Hilary J. Cholhan, Kristin E. Rooney
We appreciate the interest in our article by Drs Elzevier and Bekker. As we stated in our article, this project was brought about by observing paraurethral banding in some of our patients with a trans...
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Dyspareunia associated with paraurethral banding in the transobturator sling
10 September 2010
Henk Willem Elzevier, Milou Dieuwertje Bekker
We read with interest the recent work by Cholhan et al. They introduced a phenomenon they call paraurethral banding, which are palpable bands in the urethral folds. This is an interesting observation ...
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Repeat teen birth: does delivery mode make a difference?
10 September 2010
Laura J. Richio, Maureen G. Phipps, Christina A. Raker
Objective: We sought to evaluate the association between the rate of repeat adolescent births and mode of delivery. Study design: This was a retrospective cohort study of 899 adolescents delivering in...
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Contemporary perspectives on vaginal pH and lactobacilli
10 September 2010
Iara M. Linhares, Paul R. Summers, Bryan Larsen, Paulo C. Giraldo, Steven S. Witkin
Ever since the pH of the vagina was found to be much more acidic than blood and interstitial fluids, a belief going back more than a century has persisted that the vagina is protected from pathogenic ...
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The molecular basis for sonographic cervical shortening at term: identification of differentially expressed genes and the epithelial-mesenchymal transition as a function of cervical length
06 September 2010
Sonia S. Hassan, Roberto Romero, Adi L. Tarca, Chia-Ling Nhan-Chang, Pooja Mittal, Edi Vaisbuch, Juan M. Gonzalez, Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa, Rouba Ali-Fehmi, Zhong Dong, Nandor Gabor Than, Chong Jai Kim
Objective:: The purpose of this study was to determine whether cervical shortening of a ripe cervix at term is associated with changes in the cervical transcriptome. Study Design:: Sonographically mea...
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