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Ultrasound screening of pregnant women is recommended by the Danish National Health Organisation only when the investigation is indicated, and not as part of routine antenatal care. The press has suggested that ultrasound examination makes pregnant women feel anxious and insecure. The attitude of the pregnant women to ultrasound screening is illustrated by a questionnaire investigation, including 220 women. Most of the women (93%) thought, that ultrasound examination should be offered to all pregnant women, while only 4.3% thought, that ultrasound screening should be offered only on special indications. Most of the women thought, that ultrasound examination was a positive experience, enhancing the women's feeling of security.
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Ultrasonography, Prenatal , Adolescent , Adult , Attitude to Health , Denmark , Female , Humans , Pregnancy , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
OC-125 is a monoclonal antibody raised against tumor cells from a patient with serous cystadenocarcinoma and reacting with an antigen CA-125 on the surface of ovarian epithelial cancer cells. We investigated whether immunohistochemical determination of CA-125 in cell samples from the peritoneal cavity could be used to discriminate between non-specific inflammatory changes in the mesothelium and malignant ovarian tumour cells. Three categories of patients were investigated: patients with disseminated serous or endometrioid ovarian carcinomas, patients with non-specific inflammatory changes in the peritoneal cavity and patients subjected to simple hysterectomy with no pathological changes in the mesothelium. In all cases of ovarian cancer CA-125 positive cells could be detected in the peritoneal fluid; none of the other categories showed positive reaction for CA-125. The results suggest that OC-125 may be a valuable adjunct in differentiating neoplastic from other cells in ascitic fluid from patients with some types of ovarian cancer.
