The surgical treatment of deep infiltrating endometriosis is challenging and complex. Currently, the gold standard for patient care is the referral to tertiary centers with a multidisciplinary team including gynecologists, colorectal surgeo…
BACKGROUND: This study was designed to compare the surgical outcomes of standard and reverse laparoscopic techniques for the treatment of rectovaginal endometriosis. METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted in a teaching and research h…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate in infertile women the benefit of laparoscopic surgical treatment of endometriosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS: All infertile patients aged 18 to 43 years old, operated between February 2004 and March 2008, with a minimal …
Good knowledge of physiopathology, surgical techniques and of the literature allows for an adequate treatment of ovarian endometrioma. Preoperative medical treatment has not shown to be efficient and might be adapted to each patient (contin…
OBJECTIVE: to evaluate the complications after surgery for deep endometriosis. DESIGN: retrospective study. SETTING: data from the CHU Estaing database and patients' charts between January 1987 and December 2007. SAMPLE: all women given …
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the fertility status in women suffering from major postoperative complications following deep endometriosis surgery. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective study in teaching and research hospitals (tertiary centers) including…
CONTEXT: Only a few, small, human studies on E-cadherin and beta-catenin expression in normal cycling human endometrium have been reported. It remains unclear whether expression of these molecules might be altered in the endometrium of infe…
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for the removal of normal ovarian tissue during laparoscopic cystectomy for endometriosis. METHODS: A total of 121 patients who had histologically confirmed ovarian endometrios…
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate HOXA-10 expression in endometrium from infertile patients with different forms of endometriosis; with uterine fibromas, or with unexplained infertility and from normal fertile women. MET…
Endometriosis, a common gynecological disorder responsible for infertility and pelvic pain, is defined as the presence of endometrial glands and stroma within extra-uterine sites. Gene expression studies performed on endometriotic tissue ho…
OBJECTIVE: With a prospective study, to evaluate the existence of two distinct clinical diseases in the endometriosis syndrome, by comparing pain symptoms and quality of life from patients with minimal endometriosis (AFS-R<5) and data from …
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of protein kinase C inhibition on surgically induced endometriosis in mice. DESIGN: Prospective, randomized study. SETTING: Academic facility. ANIMALS: Sixty adult female C57BJ6 mice. INTERVENTION(S): O…
The minimum distance between the vaginal mucosal epithelium and the endometriotic glands was <1,000 microm in 30 patients (49.2%), <2,000 microm in 44 patients (72.1%), and <5,000 microm in 60 patients (98.4%). Our findings provided histolo…
BACKGROUND: Deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) is commonly associated with severe pain. The pain can be managed successfully with GnRH agonists or continuous progestins. The precise molecular mechanism by which DIE causes pain or why hor…
From the literature, the crucial knowledge were drawn among endometriosis related infertility. Endometriosis is an important factor of infertility in minimal or light stages and a major one in mild or moderate stages. Thus, a laparoscopy mu…
Although malignant degeneration of cutaneous endometriosis is rare at only 0.3-1% in endometriosis surgical scars, diagnosis and management need to be defined. A case of malignant degeneration of perineal endometriosis is reported, with a r…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate mRNA expression of aromatase and 17beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (17betaHSD2) in epithelial and stromal cells from eutopic and ectopic endometrium of patients with deep endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospectiv…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether genes that had been found to be differentially expressed in deep-infiltrating endometriosis and matched eutopic endometrium in our previous complementary DNA microarray study also are differentially express…
Endometriosis has long been considered as a disease of women over 30 years old. However, recent data from the literature demonstrated its high incidence in teenagers. Endometriosis in teenagers is generally associated with chronic pelvic pa…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether WT1 protein expression is altered in eutopic endometrium of endometriosis patients. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENT(S): Patients with endometriosis and fertile women with…
OBJECTIVE: Evaluation of fertiloscopy's place in the management of female infertility. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Retrospective study including 229 women presenting primary or secondary infertility without pathology raising of an evident surgic…
We investigated relationships between delay of surgical diagnosis and severity of disease in 95 patients with symptomatic deep infiltrating endometriosis. The delay before surgical diagnosis of deep infiltrating endometriosis was significan…