Ultrastructural features of endometriotic implants suggest an incomplete response to the prevalent hormonal milieu. The cyclic changes, especially in the secretory phase, appear to depend more on the morphologic differentiation of the ectop…
Patients (n = 10) with endometriosis or fibrocystic mammary disease were treated with an oral dose of 4 x 200 mg danazol for 6 months. Prolactin and gonadotropin secretion was evaluated before, and in some of them during 1, 3, and 6 months …
This report, the first ultrastructural study of endometriotic implants, compares the ectopic endometrium in 14 patients with that found in the uterus. The ultrastructural features of most of the glands of the ectopic endometrium resemble th…
Electron microscopic examinations were carried out on 29 representative endometriotic glands obtained from 16 biopsies. Patients with endometriosis diagnosed by laparoscopy and confirmed by laparoscopic biopsy prior to hormonal treatment re…