Leroy JL

BackgroundIt has been well documented that the maturing oocyte is very vulnerable to changes in its micro-environment, the follicular fluid (FF). Recent research has focused on different components within this FF, like hormones, growth fact…

Relationship between infertility and endometriosis is still controversial. Many mechanisms have been reported such as anatomical disorders, biologic and cytological modifications of peritoneal liquid, functional ovarian and endometrial diso…

Endometriosis is characterised by the presence in abnormal situation of a tissue resembling the endometrium with glands and stroma. Several assumptions try to explain the development of this tissue. The oldest, the theory of the metaplasia,…

Adenomyosis is a frequent pathology of the uterus for women over 40. Difficult to diagnose, adenomyosis can be responsible of pelvic pain and menorrhagia. Association with infertility is a rare event and the responsibility of adenomyosis is…

Although endometriosis appears as a rare cause in long series of cases of extrauterine pregnancy, the study of pregnancies which survive after treatment of endometriosis show a significant increase of extrauterine pregnancy, especially in c…

Fluid was collected from the Ponch of Douglas at laparoscopy or laparotomy in 104 women. Macrophages were always present. The Schiff's histochemical reaction was positive inside the cytoplasm in cases of pelvic endometriosis in our study. T…