Barbara A. Goff

TL;DR: The practice of abandoning a planned radical hysterectomy for unexpected metastatic disease may not worsen the outcome, and preoperative clinical predictors, complication rates, and outcomes were evaluated.

TL;DR: There is significant gender bias against the Medicare reimbursement of female-specific services, which results in a lower net reimbursement for gynecologic procedures since many private sector insurance carriers now use the resource-based relative value scale system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe perceptions of patient-centered communication (PCC); assess whether physician specialty, patient characteristics, or health system characteristics are associated with PCC; and identify associations between PCC, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and symptom burden among individuals with ovarian cancer.

TL;DR: The use of bevacizumab in heavily pretreated recurrent platinum resistant epithelial ovarian cancer, fallopian tube cancer, or primary peritoneal cancer when no more than two prior cytotoxic regimens have been used is worth consideration.

TL;DR: A pregnant woman sustained an abdominal gunshot wound during the second trimester; the bullet injured multiple loops of bowel and passed through the uterus, placenta and fetus, and although the stillborn fetus was delivered by cesarean section, a review of the literature indicated that operative delivery is not indicated when the fetus has died already.