ABSTRACT
In about 60 cases demonstrating a tentative diagnosis of a palpable recidivation (cancer of the cervix), a puncture of the parametrium and of the pelvic wall was carried out with the biopsy needle "Tru-Cut". The modalities of procedure are described. Verification of cancer suspicion was achieved to a rate of 50 per cent, this percentage having increased for about 20% when the puncture was repeated. Ten per cent of the carcinomas could not be listed, and in 20% of the cases a recidivation could be excluded. There were no complications.
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Genital Neoplasms, Female/diagnosis , Neoplasm Recurrence, Local/diagnosis , Biopsy, Needle/instrumentation , Biopsy, Needle/methods , Female , Humans , Needles , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/diagnosisABSTRACT
A vaginal applicator combination for intracavitary radium therapy in cancers of the female genitals was developed. By means of several stages which may be combined moreover with tube filters, different combinations and different radium quantities are applicable which can be adjusted to the results of medical examination using symmetric or asymmetric radium sources. The loading of the applicator combination is executed by straight genuine tube filters which were fixed by weld.
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Radium/therapeutic use , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/radiotherapy , Vaginal Neoplasms/radiotherapy , Female , Humans , Radiotherapy/instrumentation , Radiotherapy DosageABSTRACT
A prospective study was performed for a new model concerning the potentiation of radiation with Podophyllum (Proresid) and the radioprotection with Acethylhomocystein-thiolactone (Reducdyn) in cases of the squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix. The study was carried out on the basis of alternated data of birth. The total number of the randomization was 256, consisting of 173 stages II und 83 stages III. All patients were irradiated with 6000 mgeh Ra and 4500 R 60Co. In addition to the irradiation one group of 128 patients received an infusion of 1g Podophyllum/day after irradiation. Another group of 46 patients was treated prior to irradiation with 1g Acethyl-homocystein-thiolactone (AHCT) and with Podophyllum after exposure. The total dosage was between 30 and 50g Pod. and 30 and 50g AHCT. It could be shown that the survival rate after three years was increased up to 15%. An earlier study revealed a five-year-survival rate of 23%.
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Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/therapy , Female , Homocysteine/analogs & derivatives , Homocysteine/therapeutic use , Humans , Methods , Podophyllin/therapeutic use , Prospective Studies , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/drug therapy , Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/radiotherapyABSTRACT
Animal experiments with 110 female guinea pigs proved an external ovum passage in 14 per cent of cases. These results ask for the conversative character of operations on the adnexes in sexually mature females. Literature reports on several cases of external ovum passage postoperatively. We presume, however, that the phenomenon of external ovum passage also results with an anatomically and physiologically normal sexual system more often than books in out discipline normally report. The basis of this study, which has the aim to prove in an experimental investigation with guinea pigs the phenomenon of external ovum passage, represented the delivery of a patient in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Göttingen, in whom precended operations of contralateral tube and ovary exstirpation.
