Tony Chung

..The purpose of this study was to examine if depressive symptomatology in pregnancy is associated with adverse obstetric and neonatal outcomes...

..To investigate the incidence of microsatellite instability (MI) in cervical carcinoma and its relationship with clinicopathological characteristics...

..The high incidence of p53, HER-2/neu and c-myc overexpression in fallopian tube adenocarcinoma suggests these genes may play a role in its tumorigenesis...

..To compare the efficacy of surgical evacuation of the uterus with medical evacuation using misoprostol in cases of spontaneous abortion...

..TVS can accurately identify those women who do not have a significant amount of residual uterine tissue following spontaneous abortion...

..The results suggest that MSI is present in a subgroup of cervical squamous cell carcinomas, and defects resulting in MSI may be related to tumor progression and possibly poor prognosis in cervical cancer...

..To analyze the effect of one interval vaginal delivery on the prevalence of stress urinary incontinence amongst a cohort of nulliparous women...

..Common and important psychosomatic disorders in pregnancy reviewed here include perinatal depression, posttraumatic stress disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and postpartum psychosis...

..Sixteen percent (8/49) of the tumor specimens showed neither amplification nor overexpression. Disease stage, tumor grade and overexpression of cyclin D1 were found to be independent poor prognostic factors in cervical carcinoma...

..To investigate the clinical and prognostic significance of human papillomavirus (HPV) in a Chinese population of cervical cancers...

..Our findings suggest that the administration of HRT will have a beneficial effect on peripheral flow velocity in postmenopausal woman. These changes require confirmation in a larger controlled trial...

..Cox regression analysis confirmed that advanced stage disease and poorly differentiated tumour are independent prognostic factors for cervical carcinoma...

..The purpose of this study was to compare the psychologic impact and client satisfaction of routine surgical evacuation of the uterus with medical evacuation in cases of spontaneous abortion...

..We hypothesized that applying two complementary rating scales of symptoms and functioning as a double test would significantly enhance the positive predictive value of screening...

..To determine whether a single oral dose of misoprostol is associated with change in Doppler resistance indices (RIs) of the uterine artery in early pregnancy...

..A prospective randomized controlled trial was conducted to compare the efficacy and side-effects of vaginal versus oral misoprostol in the medical management of incomplete miscarriage...

..Although the combination of both tests improved the detection rate compared to the use of CRH alone, the small increase in the likelihood ratio from 1.9 to 2.6 did not suggest that the combination would be of great clinical value...

..However, measurement of c-erbB-2 ECD when used alone or in combination with CA 125 is not useful in differentiating benign from malignant ovarian tumors...

..Psychiatric morbidity affects 48% to 51% of women who have miscarried. This study evaluated the utility of two sample and brief self-report questionnaires in screening psychiatric morbidity after miscarriage...

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..Protracted labor longer than or equal to 800 min is a risk factor for postpartum urinary retention. The PVRBV is directly related to the duration of labor...

..There is, however, little data among non-Western populations. The aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity following miscarriage among Chinese women in Hong Kong...

..The present work may be extended to the development of molecular diagnosis of MTAP gene deletion in other cancers and assist in selecting appropriate chemotherapy...

..The study also showed that 64% of these patients with pain had moderate to severe disabilities to the basic activity of daily living, although there was no correlation between the severity of pain and the severity of disability...

..We evaluated the utility of the Chinese version of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and measured the prevalence of major depression six weeks after confinement among Chinese women in Hong Kong...

..The results indicate that methylation of the p16INK4A gene is present in a proportion of primary gynecologic malignancies and this alteration may be associated with poor outcome in cervical and endometrial carcinomas...

..To assess 5-year compliance with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in Hong Kong Chinese women and the reasons for long-term compliance or non-compliance...

..This study evaluated the utility of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) in screening for depression among recently delivered women in Hong Kong...

..This suggests that environmental factors in early life have a differential effect on the development of urinary incontinence...

..The character of the ROC would indicate that it is not useful for prediction. CONCLUSION: ANP levels in the second and early third trimesters has limited clinical utility for the prediction of PIH...

..The LOH at 3p13 appears to be a late event in tumor progression and may serve as an indicator for a less favorable clinical outcome...

..About 3.4% of the women experienced regret at 12 months after sterilization...

..As the hormone is synthesized by the placenta, it supports the suggestion that the human placenta has an important role in determining gestational length...

..903 (Spearman's correlation, P < 0.0001). Either ultrasonographic volume estimation method gives reasonable bladder volume assessment in postpartum patients and could be used interchangeably as the clinical situation requires...

..05). CONCLUSION: Marital relationship and sexual function were negatively affected in women who had USI or DO...

..Hysteroscopic examination using NS is more accurate than that which uses CO2...

..No specific pathology was found. After reviewing all the previously reported cases, hypertension is found to be a common factor in all cases presenting in late pregnancy. The clinical course is benign and all resolved after delivery...

..These findings suggest that low levels of colonization may be related to a low incidence of preterm delivery in our patients...