Thoracic endometriosis (TE) syndrome is a clinical condition known as an extrapelvic form of endometriosis with the presence of functioning endometrial tissue involving lung parenchyma, pleura, chest wall, or diaphragm. In an effort to obta…
Thoracic endometriosis (TE) syndrome is a clinical condition known as an extrapelvic form of endometriosis with the presence of functioning endometrial tissue involving lung parenchyma, pleura, chest wall, or diaphragm. In an effort to obta…
STUDY QUESTION: Are the fetal membranes of women affected with endometriosis similar to those from disease-free women? SUMMARY ANSWER: Decidua of women with endometriosis is able to generate endometriotic-like lesions in contact with the fe…
For many years, endometriosis has been an enigmatic and confusing disorder, but there have been recent contributions to the subject, provided by modern techniques in cellular and molecular biology, regarding the cell lineage involved, the s…
Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) was used in parallel with fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) and conventional karyotyping to perform a genome-wide survey of DNA gains and losses in the endometriosis-derived permanent cell lin…
Endometriosis is characterized by infertility and pelvic pain in 10-15% of women of reproductive age. The genetic events involved in endometriotic cell expansion remain in large part unknown. To identify genomic changes involved in developm…
A human epithelial-like cell line derived from peritoneal implants from a patient with gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist-resistant endometriosis graded as stage IVd according to the American Fertility Society classification was…