R. Punnonen

Endometriosis is a common problem affecting 5-10% of women of childbearing age. It is a condition with unknown pathology, leaving us with several theories. However, about half of women with endometriosis complain of difficulty conceiving. T…

Of 903 surgically treated patients with endometriosis the disease recurred in 132 cases (14.6%) during the follow-up period of 6-10 years. The re-operation was performed within 1 year after the primary operation for 7 patients, within 1-5 y…

The effect of electric stimulation of the uterine cervix on vasopressin and prolactin secretions was investigated in 16 patients with uterine myomas and/or hypermenorrhea. One month after hysterectomy a similar stimulation was induced near …

ObjectiveThe levels of interleukin-2, interleukin-4, interleukin-5, interleukin-6, interleukin-10, and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor were measured in the peritoneal fluid of 15 patients with endometriosis to characterize …

Fifteen patients with obstructive salpingitis isthmica nodosa were studied. Histologically the tubal lumen was narrowed in all cases and in five patients the central tubal lumen could not be detected at all. In all cases an at least slight …

"Compression of the femoral nerve due to endometriosis of the inguinal region." Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 7(1), pp. 70–71

Specific androgen (Kd 0.27 +/- 0.06 nM), estrogen (Kd 0.19 +/- 0.04 nM) and progestin (Kd 0.22 +/- 0.07 nM) binding were investigated in benign gynecologic tumors and tumor-like lesions. The simultaneous presence of androgen and progestin r…

Details of medical history, symptomatology, operative findings and certain other special features are reported for patients with external endometriosis treated operatively during the period 1969-76. The incidence of endometriosis in this su…

Twenty five patients were operated on for isthmic tubal occlusion. In 15 cases (60%) the etiology of this lesion was salpingitis isthmica nodosa. Of the other 10 cases, three showed tubal endometriosis and another three isthmic fibrosis. In…

Abstract During the period 1971–1980 a total of 1226 diagnostic laparoscopies were performed at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Turku University Central Hospital. In 591 patients the indication for laparoscopy was chronic pel…

Forty-one cases of ovarian pregnancies diagnosed during 1946 and 1980 were analysed clinically and histologically. All of the pregnancies were terminated during the first trimester. The average duration of amenorrhea was 36.4 +/- 28.6 days;…

During the years 1968--1972, 903 patients with endometriosis were operated on in the Turku University Central Hospital, of whom 136 were found to have adenomyosis (endometriosis interna). The diagnosis of adenomyosis was usually made post-o…

The frequency of postmenopausal endometriosis (ovarian endometriosis and adenomyosis) was 2.2%. The mean of the menopausal ages in 11 patients with ovarian endometriosis was 50.3 yr and the average time elapsed since menopause, 7.3 yr. The …