BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Chronic pelvic pain is often difficult to diagnose and treat properly. Physicians called on to treat this problem may not be able to give a specific diagnosis. The aim of this study was to see whether the physical presence of anterior vaginal wall tenderness could help narrow down and elucidate diagnoses in a practice focusing on diagnosis and treatment of chronic pelv...

Endometriosis, which is defined as the presence of ectopic endometrial glands and stroma outside the uterus, is a common cause of pelvic pain and infertility, affecting as many as 10% of premenopausal women. Because its effects may be devastating, radiologists should be familiar with the various imaging manifestations of the disease, especially those that allow its differentiation from other pe...

OBJECTIVE To assess the cause of pain on diagnostic laparoscopy in women with chronic pelvic pain and equivocal clinical and ultrasound examination. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Red Crescent General Hospital, Hyderabad, Sindh, from January 2007 to December 2009. METHODOLOGY All the women presenting with chronic pelvic pain for more than 6 m...

Endometriosis is characterised by the presence of endometrial tissue outside uterine cavity that responds to oestrogen and stimulates local inflammatory processes, adhesions, pelvic pain, infertility. The treatment endometriosis includes use medications videolaparoscopy for excision adhesions or lesions. Some complications are associated with videolaparoscopy, such as vascular, intestinal, urin...

Endometriosis is a benign gynaecological disease characterized by the presence of endometrial glands and stroma outside the uterine cavity. This condition is mainly found in women of reproductive age, from all ethnic and social groups and it is associated with pelvic pain and infertility. Endometriosis is typically present in the pelvis such as on the ovaries and pelvic peritoneum, but may also...

Endometriosis is a common disease with typically delayed diagnosis. Its prevalence high among adolescents pelvic pain symptom. Deposits of tissue outside uterine cavity depend on oestrogen. Progestins and oral contraceptives are not successful 1/3 symptomatic women worldwide. Pathogenesis endometriosis well understood but immune system plays role in its pathophysiology. The aetiology remains la...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of endometriosis in general gynecological and infertile women presenting to hospital and to correlate symptomatology and stage of disease. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Gynecology Department of Mother and Child Health Center, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad, from March 2000 to March 2002. PATIENTS AND METHO...

We report the case of a 33-year-old female who presented with endometriosis of the anterior abdominal wall following Caesarean Section at the surgical incision site. Abdominal Incisional Site Endometriosis can pose a diagnostic dilema owing to its relative rarity and vagueosity of symptoms, vis-a-vis, cyclical abdominal pain and occasional palpable mass associated with menstruation. A greater i...