A Textbook of Gynecology for Less-Resourced Locations

Prelims, Title pages, Contents, List of contributors

Chapter 1: Gynecological History Taking and Examination

Section 1: Symptoms
Chapter 2: Vaginal Bleeding in the First Trimester of Pregnancy
Chapter 3: Lower Abdominal Pain in the First Trimester of Pregnancy
Chapter 4: Hyperemesis Gravidarum
Chapter 5: Acute Pelvic Pain in a Limited-resource Setting
Chapter 6: Chronic Pelvic Pain
Chapter 7: Painful Menstrual Period: Dysmenorrhea
Chapter 8: Amenorrhea
Chapter 9: Abnormal Uterine Bleeding in thePremenopausal Period
Chapter 10: Uterine Bleeding in the Postmenopausal Period
Chapter 11: Abdominal Masses in Gynecology

Section 2: Specific benign conditions
Chapter 12: Ectopic pregnancy
Chapter 13: Abortion
Chapter 14: Recurrent Miscarriage including Cervical Incompetence
Chapter 15: Contraception
Chapter 16: Subfertility
Chapter 17: Sexually Transmitted Infections and Reproductive Tract Infections
Chapter 18: HIV/AIDS-related Problems in Gynecology
Chapter 19: Uterine Fibroids
Chapter 20: Treatment of Dysfunctional Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Chapter 21: Vesico-vaginal and Recto-vaginal Fistula
Chapter 22: Female Genital Mutilation
Chapter 23: Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Incontinence
Chapter 24: Gynecology in Children and Adolescents
Chapter 25: Benign Disease of the Breast

Section 3: Specific malignant conditions
Chapter 26: Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment in Low-Resource Settings
Chapter 27: Molar Pregnancy and other Gestational Trophoblastic Diseases
Chapter 28: Ovarian Cancer
Chapter 29: Cancer of the Uterine Corpus
Chapter 30: Breast Cancer
Chapter 31: Basic Oncology including Treatment in Less-resourced Locations
Chapter 32: Palliative Care

Section 4: Basic program skills
Chapter 33: Epidemiology in Gynecological Diseases
Chapter 34: Quality Improvement and Clinical Audits
Chapter 35: Management of Low-cost Drugs and Equipment
Chapter 36: Gynecological Care and the Health System

Index