Endometriosis causes significant chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, and infertility and affects 10% of all women. In endometriosis, ectopic endometrium surviving after retrograde menstruation exhibits an abnormal immune response characteriz…
BACKGROUND: To evaluate the efficacy of robot-assisted laparoscopic myomectomy for deep intramural myomas. METHODS: We have conducted a retrospective study for 170 patients who underwent robot-assisted laparoscopic myomectomy by a single op…
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BACKGROUND AND AIM: NK cells are one of the major immune cells in endometriosis pathogenesis. While previous clinical studies have shown that helixor A to be an effective treatment for endometriosis, little is known about its mechanism of a…
ObjectivesTo evaluate the usefulness of CA125 levels in the differential diagnosis of adenomyosis and myoma. This has been addressed by few, if any, previous studies.Study designPreoperative serum CA125 levels were measured in 2149 women wh…