Results of treatment in endometrial carcinoma: ten years experience.

From 1980 to 1989, 145 patients of histologically proven adenocarcinoma of the endometrium were seen and treated at the Department of Radiotherapy, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, Majority of the patients (84/145) presented with FIGO stage I disease. Relationship of myometrial invasion to grade was highly significant (p < 0.001). One hundred and seven patients were treated by surgery in combination with pre-operative or post-operative radiotherapy. The importance of various prognostic factors was assessed and grade of the tumour had statistically highly significant effect on survival (p < 0.005). Postoperative radiotherapy is recommended in patients with poor prognostic factors.

Growth of term infants during neonatal period.

One hundred and seventy two healthy term (T) appropriate-for-dates (AFD) singleton neonates were prospectively studied from birth until 28 days of age for changes in weight, occipitofrontal circumference (OFC), chest circumference (CC), midarm circumference (MAC), thigh circumference (TC) and crownheel length (CHL). Male babies had statistically significant (p < 0.05) higher values than females for weight, OFC, CC and CHL at birth and for all the six parameters at 28 days. The mean loss of weight during the first 72 hours was 120 g and 140 g and the mean gain in weight at 28 days was 640 g and 520 g for males and females, respectively. After an initial decrease, OFC, CC and TC showed a mean growth of 1.9 cm and 1.9 cm, 1.4 cm and 1.1 cm and 0.9 cm and 0.7 cm in males and females, respectively by 28 days. By that age CHL showed a mean growth of 3.2 cm in males and 3.0 cm in females. Although both groups after an initial decrease in MAC, had started showing growth by 2nd week, female babies fell short by 0.1 cm of mean birth values by 28 days while males had a mean growth of 0.1 cm.