{"paper_id":"483d4e23-d35b-4028-b70a-12414f8ea4cc","body_text":"Abstract\nBackground : Endometriosis is one of the gynecological disorders that affects women at reproductive age between 20-35 years. Based on the above, endometriosis can cause pain that can interfere daily activity and infertility.\nAim : To found the incidence and characteristics of patients with endometriosis who undergoing treatment and surgery in RSUP Dr. Kariadi Semarang Method: This study was a descriptive study. Data retrieved from medical records of endometriosis’s patients who undergoing treatment and surgery at RSUP Dr. Kariadi Semarang 2018. The result presented in distribution and frequency characteristics tables.\nResult : The incidence of endometriosis in RSUP Dr. Kariadi Semarang in 2018 were 176 cases of 8690 inpatients in the obstetric and gynecology wards. Characteristics of endometriosis patients are most at the age of 20 - 35 years, nullipara, with complaints of menstrual pain / dysmenorrhoea, location in the ovary, by managing the surgery and using GnRH agonists, and not a recurrent endometriosis patient.\nConclusion : The incidence of endometriosis in RSUP Dr. Kariadi Semarang 2018 was 176 cases of 8690 patients at the Obstetrics and Gynecology (2 %). Endometrosis highest incidence was in the reproductive age (20-35 years).\nKeywords: Endometriosis, Female Reproduction, Gynecological Disorder\nFunding: Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Diponegoro University\nArticle Metrics:\nArticle Info\nSection: Original Articles\nLast update:\nNo citation recorded.\nLast update:\nNo citation recorded.\nCopyright 2022 DIPONEGORO MEDICAL JOURNAL (JURNAL KEDOKTERAN DIPONEGORO)\nAuthors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: - Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-SA) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal. - Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal. - Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access).\nAuthors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: - Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-SA) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal. - Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal. - Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access).","source_license":"CC0","license_restricted":false}