Endometriosis as a common hormone-dependent gynecologic disease is seen in 10-15% of women of reproductive age. On the other hand, 20-50% of women with infertility have endometriosis and 30-50% women with endometrioma are infertile. One of severe form of endometriosis is endometrioma. Surgery is considered as essential treatment for endometrioma with the recurrence rate of 10%. Many researches ...

A 63-year-old male was admitted to the emergency department with cough, purulent sputum, dyspnoea, fatigue, haematemesis and melaena. The patient immediately underwent gastroscopy, and endoscopic sclerotherapy was performed on an actively bleeding duodenal ulcer. The patient had a 60-pack-year smoking history, but had ceased smoking 3 years previously. Three years before admission, he was diagn...

staple transection as a salvage procedure after failure of acute in]ection sclerotherapy. It is not clear which therapy should be used in patients with bleeding esophageal varices that are not controlled by emergency sclerotherapy. This is a high-risk group with reported mortality rates of between 70% and 90%. We report our 7-year experience with staple transection of the esophagus in this pati...

OBJECTIVE This retrospective study evaluated the results of sclerotherapy with low doses of ethanol for treatment of head and neck venous malformations. METHODS We treated 51 patients, 37 females. Median age was 23 years. Patients were treated with percutaneous intralesional injection of alcohol every two weeks and followed up prospectively for a median period of 18 months. Most lesions affec...

Injection sclerotherapy has a prominent role in the treatment of bleeding hemorrhoids. The commonly used sclerosants are not available or very expensive in Nigeria. We prospectively evaluated 50% dextrose water, used as a nonallergenic sclerosant, in the treatment of bleeding internal hemorrhoids. Forty consenting adult patients (median age 50 years [range 35-67]; 22 women) with bleeding hemorr...

A 40-year-old woman with a history of alopecia areata related to stress or hormonal changes was treated for bilateral primary symptomatic varicose veins (CEAP clinical score C2S) of pelvic origin, using a staged procedure. Her first procedure entailed pelvic vein embolisation of three pelvic veins using 14 coils and including foam sclerotherapy of the tributaries, using 3% sodium tetradecyl sul...

BACKGROUND Lymphangiomas occur most commonly in the head and neck region, while other sites are rarely affected. A combination of retroperitoneal and genital lymphangioma is very rare indeed. Though congenital, it may persist into adulthood due to missed diagnosis and inadequate or total lack of treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS A report of a 22-year-old male student who presented with recurre...

Introduction: Haemorrhoids is a very common condition in patients presenting to surgery Outpatient Department (OPD) with complaints of bleeding per rectum. Injection Foam Sclerotherapy has been established as safe, simple and effective non surgical modality treatment symptomatic grade 1 2 haemorrhoids. Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness foam sclerotherapy suffering Grade I II Haemorrhoidal dise...

AIM To study the prevalence, predictors and control of bleeding following N-butyl 2 cyanoacrylate (NBC) sclerotherapy of gastric varix (GV). METHODS We analyzed case records of 1436 patients with portal hypertension, who underwent endoscopy during the past five years for variceal screening or upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. Fifty patients with bleeding GV underwent sclerotherapy with a ...