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Endometriosis is a common disease in gynecology. Many theories were proposed to explain the endometriosis pathogenesis. The distribution of the endometriosis lesions seems to be interesting in order to understand the endometriosis pathogene…

Müllerianosis may be defined as an organoid structure of embryonic origin; a choristoma composed of müllerian rests--normal endometrium, normal endosalpinx, and normal endocervix--singly or in combination, incorporated within other normal o…

Endometriosis is a debilitating disease estimated to affect 10% of reproductive-age women and characterized by the growth of endometrial tissue outside of the uterus. The present study characterizes a human endometrial explant culture model…

Endometriosis is a debilitating disease found in 10-15% of reproductive-age women and is characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue outside of the uterus. The present study characterizes the expression of AhR and ARNT mRNA in a hum…

We summarize the epidemiologic literature on the effect of life-style factors such as cigarette smoking, alcohol and caffeine consumption, physical exercise, body mass index, and drug use on female infertility. We identified relevant papers…

To examine the belief that women with endometriosis have "voluntarily" delayed childbirth, the authors used a case-control approach to assess the relation between sexual, contraceptive, and reproductive factors and endometriosis. A total of…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of body fat distribution with risk of endometriosis in an effort to determine whether a specific somatotype is related to the disease. METHODS: We conducted a case-control study of 88 laparoscopically c…

The present study utilized a case-control design to assess the relation between menstrual cycle factors and risk of endo-metriosis in women age 19–45 years. From a gynecologic specialty clinic in Western New York in 1987, we identified 104 …

We suggest that müllerianosis is a distinct form of endometriosis, separate in its pathogenesis from transplantation endometriosis of lymphatic, hematogenous, transtubal, or iatrogenic origin, and also distinct from endometriosis of coelomi…

Sixty-five infertile patients with moderate or severe endometriosis were treated with conservative surgery. Acosta's classification was used to demonstrate the extent of disease. In 48 women whose partners were normally fertile, 65% conceiv…