BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The relationship between leiomyoma and endometriosis is poorly understood. Both contribute to considerable pain and may cause subfertility or infertility in women. We conducted this retrospective study to assess the rate of coexistence of endometriosis in women with symptomatic leiomyoma. The primary outcome measured was the coexistence of histology-proven endometriosi...

Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) could be considered nowadays a deep health problem that challenges physicians all over the world. This because its aetiology is still unclear, the course of the disease could vary a lot among different patients and through time in the same patient, and the response to treatments is not every time successful. Among women who underwent laparoscopy for CPP, endometriosis ...

• Objective: To review the diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis in young women. • Methods: Qualitative assessment of the literature. • Results: Endometriosis is one of the most common conditions affecting young women and may result in considerable patient suffering. Primary symptoms include dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, noncyclic pelvic pain, and subfertility. Diagnosis is reliably made only b...

BACKGROUND Endometriosis is a prevalent gynaecological condition, significantly affecting women's lives. Clinical presentations may vary from absence of symptoms to complaints of chronic pelvic pain, most notably dysmenorrhoea. The management of pain in endometriosis is currently inadequate. Acupuncture has been studied in gynaecological disorders but its effectiveness for pain in endometriosis...

Signs and symptoms of endometriosis are nonspecific, and an acceptably accurate noninvasive diagnostic test has yet to be reported. Serum markers do not provide adequate diagnostic accuracy. The preferred method for diagnosis of endometriosis is surgical visual inspection of pelvic organs with histologic confirmation. Such diagnosis requires an experienced surgeon because the varied appearance ...

To explore the associations between intimate relationships, psychological health, and endometriosis-related variables such as pelvic pain infertility. In this cross-sectional study, data were collected with an online survey delivered through Qualtrics posted on Facebook page website of a patient association (Associazione Progetto Endometriosi—APE) in August 2020. The was composed researcher-mad...

INTRODUCTION Postmenopausal endometriosis is a rare form of a common disease, since the absence of estrogenic hormone production should halt disease progression. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a 54-year-old Italian Caucasian woman in surgical menopause with a history of ovarian endometriosis, who underwent voluntary hormone replacement therapy for seven years. She developed postrena...

Scar endometriosis is a rare form of extra-pelvic endometriosis that can occur after surgery involving the uterus. Direct mechanical implantation seems to be the most conceivable theory for scar endometriosis. Patient usually presents with lump and pain at surgical site. Often the diagnosis of endometriosis is not suggested until histology has been performed. We hereby present a case of scar en...

Kaisa huhtinen Molecular profiling of human endometrium and endometriosis Departments of Physiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Institutes of Biomedicine and Clinical Medicine, University of Turku, Finland, and Drug Discovery Graduate School, Finland. Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, Medica-Odontologica Painosalama Oy, Turku, Finland, 2010 Endometriosis is a common hormone-dependent gynecolog...

Endometriosis is most commonly a disease of women in the second half of their reproductive life, between 30 and 45 years, and tends to regress at the menopause or even before. As a significant gynecological problem, endometriosis occurs in 7%–10% of the general population and up to 50% of premenopausal women (Wheeler, 1989). It is found in 20%–50% (mean 38%) of infertile women (Rawson, 1991; St...