Throughout the years 1978-1998, 13 patients, 9 months to 16 years of age, were treated for vaginal malignancy at the Medical City Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq. The majority were found to have an embryonal sarcoma, an endodermal sinus tumour or a clear cell adenocarcinoma. Most were treated by genital resection combined with triple cytotoxic therapy. We have eight survivors for more than 3 years following surgery. This study also illustrates the potential curability of these tumours with preservation of urinary function.
Haematological and obstetrical data were collected from 32 pregnant women with ,8-thalassaemia minor. Twenty of these were given folate supplements throughout pregnancy; the remainder did not receive folic acid. Folic acid did not affect the course of anaemia and there was no statistical difference in the haematological parameters in the two groups, both in the antenatal and the immediate postnatal period. There was no excess of obstetrical complications in either of the two groups.
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