D L Chatman

Traditional gynecologic opinion holds that endometriosis is rare in teenagers. However, several reports of this disease in teenagers have appeared over the past four decades, and in one study of a series of endometriosis patients, teenagers…

This retrospective study demonstrates an increased documentation of subtle appearances of endometriosis. This documentation was associated with an increased emphasis on excising these lesions for histologic examination. Endometriosis was do…

A series of 273 consecutive patients with the primary complaint of pelvic pain were laparoscopically diagnosed as having endometriosis. Peritoneal and/or ovarian biopsy was performed at the endometriosis site or sites in 115 patients. Histo…

Congenital or acquired defects in the mesentery are rare, and defects of the supporting structures and in the peritoneum of the pelvis are even more uncommon. Such pelvic peritoneal defects have been associated with endometriosis; however, …

The peritoneum covering the pelvic viscera is usually smooth and glistening. Defects in the pelvic peritoneum are usually presumed to be acquired. Allen and Masters described such a clinical syndrome, the anatomic cornerstone of which was l…

Endometriosis has heretofore been considered rare in black women. Laparoscopy in 190 black women, in many of whom pelvic inflammatory disease was previously diagnosed clinically and treated, revealed endometriosis to be present in 21 per ce…