BACKGROUND: To raise awareness about the accessory and cavitated uterine masses (ACUM) with functional endometrium as a different entity from adult adenomyosis and to highlight the importance of a correct diagnosis, we studied four new case…
Six cases with a coexistence of endometriosis and genital anomalies among 112 patients with external endometriosis and 90 patients with genital anomaly were detected. Three cases of severe endometriosis associated with uterovaginal duplicat…
We present an exceptional case of a patient with complete cervical atresia and total vaginal aplasia. After McIndoe vaginoplasty, cervicoitsmic resection with implantation and reimplantation of the uterine corpus in the neovagina, and conse…
Cytochrome P-450 aromatase is responsible for catalysing the conversion of androstendione into estrone, so its expression in endometriotic tissue could contribute to the development of endometriosis. The aims of this study were, on the one …
ObjectiveTo determine the effect of human interferon (IFN)-alpha-2b on experimental endometriosis in rats.DesignExperimental, controlled, double-blind randomized study.SettingExperimental surgery laboratory in a university department.Animal…
ObjectivesTo evaluate the effects of triptoreline, gestrinone, and both, on experimental endometriosis in rats.Study designExperimental endometriosis was surgically induced in 225 Wistar rats. Of these, 202 rats showed at least one grown im…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the repercussion of experimentally induced endometriosis on the fertility of Wistar rats and the effects of pregnancy and lactation on endometrial ectopic implants. DESIGN: Eight-five animals were used for the exp…
Basal levels of prolactin (PRL) were studied in 16 normal women and in 60 women with endometriosis, 37 of whom were infertile. In addition, the authors studied the response to an intravenous (IV) injection of luteinizing hormone-releasing h…