Donald L. Chatman

A series of 273 consecutive patients with the primary complaint of pelvic pain were laparoscopically diagnosed as having endometriosis. Peritoneal and/or ovarian biopsy was performed at the endometriosis site or sites in 115 patients. Histo…

Endometriosis has heretofore been considered rare in black women. Laparoscopy in 190 black women, in many of whom pelvic inflammatory disease was previously diagnosed clinically and treated, revealed endometriosis to be present in 21 per ce…