D. B. Redwine

A 33-year-old woman, para 1001, had pain in the inner right thigh and proximal right leg weakness. At surgery a locally invasive, fibrotic lesion was found encircling the right ureter, right internal iliac vein and obturator nerve. It exten…

Visual identification of endometriosis is important, identification of very subtle manifestations of disease has recently received increased attention. Colorless and other subtle manifestations of peritoneal disease can be seen more easily …

Of 132 women with endometriosis, almost one-fifth had peritoneal pockets. Two-thirds of the structures had endometriosis either around the rim or inside. Since one-third of the pockets lacked endometriosis and fibrosis was not present as a …

A 31-year-old nulligravid woman had had two previous laparoscopies for endometriosis. Disease of the right broad ligament was treated by electrocoagulation at the first surgery, but pain persisted despite postoperative danazol therapy. At h…

This study fails to uphold the concept of invisible, microscopic endometriosis. Peritoneum devoid of disease exists, can be described, and can be consistently found.

Endometriosis presents a large variety of color manifestations, most nonblack, and many easily missed unless meticulous inspection is used to identify small or nonhemorrhagic lesions. An evolution in appearance with age may occur, with resu…

In this series of patients, endometriosis does not involve more pelvic areas in older age groups. Exposure to pregnancy is associated with slightly less pelvic involvement, although this effect is inconstant when age groups are studied indi…

An error occurred in the LAW AND MEDICINE entitled "The First Amendment and Cigarette Advertising," published in the July 25 issue ofTHE JOURNAL(1986;256:502-509). On page 509, column 2, the last paragraph in footnote 6 should have been the…