Journal Issue - Volume 119 Issue 3 (February 2012)

Editor's Choice

• Editor’s Choice
• Julia Hussein
• Published online on Jan 12, 2012
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03269.x (p i-ii)

Commentary

• Laparoscopic skills training using inexpensive box trainers: which exercises to choose when constructing a validated training course
• FW Jansen, E Hiemstra
• Published online on Jan 12, 2012
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03143.x (p 263-265)

Maternal medicine

• Increased prevalence of diabetes and polycystic ovary syndrome in women with a history of preterm birth: a case–control study
• TB Eilertsen, E Vanky, SM Carlsen
• Published online on Dec 13, 2011
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03206.x (p 266-275)

Epidemiology

• An analysis of the interrelationship between maternal age, body mass index and racial origin in the development of gestational diabetes mellitus
• M Makgoba, MD Savvidou, PJ Steer
• Published online on Nov 02, 2011
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03156.x (p 276-282)

• Contribution of overweight and obesity to the occurrence of adverse pregnancy outcomes in a multi‐ethnic cohort: population attributive fractions for Amsterdam
• AAAMJ Djelantik, AE Kunst, MF van der Wal, HA Smit, TGM Vrijkotte
• Published online on Dec 13, 2011
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03205.x (p 283-290)

Short communicationsArticle with a Commentary

• Placental site trophoblastic tumours and the concept of fertility preservation
• S Saso, J Haddad, P Ellis, I Lindsay, NJ Sebire, A McIndoe, MJ Seckl, JR Smith
• Published online on Dec 13, 2011
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03230.x (p 369-374)

Epidemiology

• Maternal waist to hip ratio is a risk factor for macrosomia
• W Salem, AI Adler, C Lee, GCS Smith
• Published online on Oct 18, 2011
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03167.x (p 291-297)

• Mode of delivery and postpartum emotional distress: a cohort study of 55 814 women
• SS Adams, M Eberhard‐Gran, ÅR Sandvik, A Eskild
• Published online on Nov 15, 2011
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03188.x (p 298-305)

• Increasing trends in atonic postpartum haemorrhage in Ireland: an 11‐year population‐based cohort study
• JE Lutomski, BM Byrne, D Devane, RA Greene
• Published online on Dec 13, 2011
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03198.x (p 306-314)

• Depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence in the 12 months after childbirth: a prospective pregnancy cohort study
• H Woolhouse, D Gartland, K Hegarty, S Donath, SJ Brown
• Published online on Dec 07, 2011
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03219.x (p 315-323)

• Terminations of pregnancy in the European Union
• M Gissler, I Fronteira, A Jahn, H Karro, C Moreau, M Oliveira da Silva, J Olsen, C Savona‐Ventura, M Temmerman, E Hemminki, 
• Published online on Nov 30, 2011
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03189.x (p 324-332)

• Cancer of the body of the uterus: trends in mortality and incidence in England, 1985–2008
• ME Duncan, V Seagroatt, MJ Goldacre
• Published online on Nov 15, 2011
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03201.x (p 333-339)

General obstetrics

• Prevalence and risk factors for third‐ and fourth‐degree perineal lacerations during vaginal delivery: a multi‐country study
• F Hirayama, A Koyanagi, R Mori, J Zhang, JP Souza, AM Gülmezoglu
• Published online on Jan 12, 2012
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03210.x (p 340-347)

UrogynaecologyEditor's Pick of the Month

• The effects of vault drainage on postoperative morbidity after vaginal hysterectomy for benign gynaecological disease: a randomised controlled trial
• A Dua, A Galimberti, M Subramaniam, G Popli, S Radley
• Published online on Oct 18, 2011
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03170.x (p 348-353)

Urogynaecology

• Development of de novo prolapse in untreated vaginal compartments after prolapse repair with and without mesh: a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial
• MI Withagen, AL Milani, JW de Leeuw, ME Vierhout
• Published online on Jan 12, 2012
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03231.x (p 354-360)