Objective: To determine hymenal injuries and morphologic variants. Materials and Methods: Prospective and descriptive study done during July and August 2005. Results: There were 284 examinations for sexual violation denunciations; 80,3% corresponded to children and adolescents. The main findings were: dilatable hymen (36,9%), integral hymen (34,8%), old ruptures (13.6%), dilatable hymen with recent injuries (4,5%), recent ruptures (1,5%), among others. Conclusions: The elastic hymen with ample orifice originates difficulty in the recognition of recent injuries. An ‘accommodating’ or ‘dilatable’ hymen does not categorically determine the introduction of the penis or other member of the body or object. Legal Medicine teaches on hymenal variants and main injuries so that any examiner has enough technical and scientific knowledge at the time of crediting his findings to judicial or f...

Objective: To determine clinical and pathological findings in hydatidiform mole. Design: Descriptive retrospective study. Material and methods: All cases de molar pregnancy attended at Dos de Mayo National Hospital (HNDM) between 1998 and 2001 were reviewed. Results: Twenty-four cases of hydatidiform mole were attended; mean age was 26,4 years ± 6,4 and gestational age 13,1 weeks ± 3,3. Past history only showed 1 and 3 cases of hyperemesis gravidarum and previous abortions, respectively; 18 pregnant women were multiparae. Symptoms on admission were hypogastric pain (75%), nausea and vomiting (29,2%), dysuria (20,8%) and headache (8,3%); and clinical sigsn, fetal absence (100%), vaginal bleeding (91,7%), soft uterus (45,8%), discordant uterine height (33,3%) and expulsion of vesicles (25%). Ultrasound diagnosis was hydatidiform mole with fetal absence (100%), ovarian enlargement (29,2%)...