BACKGROUND: Laparoscopic surgery in pregnant women has become increasingly more common; however, the safety of laparoscopy in this population has been widely debated in emergent situations and big size at bigger pregnant weeks. This study w…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the pathogenesis of endometriosis by studying endometriosis coexisting with variable genital tract anomalies and analysis the association between obstructive or non-obstructive anomalies with endometriosis. METHOD…
BACKGROUND: Currently, all the diagnostic indicators for endometriosis lack perfect sensitivity and specificity. According to the characteristic of endometriosis, we analyzed the new biomarker neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and the co…
Endometriosis, characterized by endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus, is a frequently occurred benign gynecologic disease that afflicts mainly women of reproductive age, with a prevalence of 6% to 10%. Endometriosis can be subdivided …
OBJECTIVE: The issue of female sexual function is often overlooked in women with endometriosis, especially in mainland China. The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence and associated factors of female sexual dysfunction i…
OBJECTIVE: To study the relationship between the clinic-pathological features and pain symptoms in patients with endometriotic cyst (EM). METHODS: The medical data of symptoms, laparoscopy and pathology examination in 416 patients with end…
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a controversial and enigmatic disease. Deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) is responsible for painful symptoms and is the least understood type of endometriosis. Little work has been devoted to define the loca…
BACKGROUND: Clear-cell carcinoma transformed from an abdominal wall scar is extremely rare; there are only 22 cases reported in literature. Here we report a case of a patient with clear-cell carcinoma of the abdominal wall after cesarean de…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression of transient receptor potential vanilloid subtype 1 (TRPV1) in uterosacral ligament and its correlation with pain in endometriosis. METHODS: Total of 54 patients undergoing endometriotic lesions exc…
Endometriosis has critical implications for women's quality of life. However, an overview of the current knowledge of this issue is limited. The objective of this systematic review was to determine the extent of endometriosis and its treatm…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist (GnRH-a) on the expression mRNA of nerve growth factor (NGF) and its receptors (TrkA and P75NTR) in normal and eutopic endometrial stromal cells (ESC). METHO…
OBJECTIVE: To study the pathologic characteristics of eutopic endometrium in patients with endometriosis. METHODS: Pathologic characteristics of eutopic endometrium were studied in 176 patients with endometriosis in Peking Union Medical Co…
STUDY QUESTION: What are the psychometric properties in mainland China of the 30-item Endometriosis Health Profile (EHP-30) translated into simplified Chinese? SUMMARY ANSWER: The simplified Chinese version of the EHP-30 is a valid, reliab…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate clinicopathological characteristics of recurrent endometriosis and outcomes of secondary surgery. METHODS: From Jan. 2003 to Dec. 2008, 69 cases with recurrent endometriosis operated by the same senior gynecologis…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate strategies of diagnosis and treatment of ureter endometriosis. METHODS: From 1983 to 2010, the cases registered in Peking Union Medical College Hospital and confirmed as ureter endometriosis by surgery were enroll…
OBJECTIVE: To explore the hospital expenses and hospital stay of surgical management for endometriosis and adenomyosis. METHODS: The average hospital expenses and average hospital stay were compared for a total of 12003 patients of endomet…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression of transforming growth factor (TGF)-β and Smad pathway expressed in adhesion peritoneums in patients with endometriosis (EM). METHODS: From Dec. 2009 to Mar. 2010, 11 patients with EM [including 3 p…
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis (EM) is a benign gynecologic disease predominantly found in women of reproductive age. However, its pathogenesis is still poorly understood. Our experiment was designed to establish a stable and reliable cultural e…
OBJECTIVE: To study the diagnosis and treatment of inguinal endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective study was made of 9 patients presenting with inguinal endometriosis between January 1986 and November 2008. RESULTS: The incidence of…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the characteristics and trends of surgical management on endometriosis in Peking Union Medical College Hospital From 1983 to 2009. METHODS: The medical documents of patients with endometriosis diagnosed by surgica…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the characteristics of the anatomical distribution of posterior deeply infiltrating endometriosis (PDIE) lesions, pain symptoms and effects of laparoscopic surgery. METHODS: Clinical data of 176 PDIE patients with…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate characteristics of endometriotic lesions clone with various pathological subtypes by analyzing the polymorphism of X chromosome linked human androgen receptor allele (HUMARA). METHODS: Eight frozen tissues of endo…
BACKGROUND: Stathmin was identified as an endometriosis-related protein by comparative proteomics in our previous study. As a microtubule-destabilizing factor, stathmin was shown to participate in the relay and integration of diverse intrac…