BackgroundEndometriosis as a benign disease appears frequently in premenopausal women with highly variable symptoms. In advanced stages bowel involvement is common. In symptomatic disease the adequate treatment requires complete resection o…
Our laboratories have focused recently on the production and localization of eotaxin, a C-C-chemokine of 8.4 kDa, whose major biological activity is the chemoattraction of eosinophils. Given evidence of autoimmune activity in the endometrio…
Compartment syndrome of the lower extremities is a clinically and medicolegally potentially devastating complication. Recently, the more widespread use of advanced laparoscopic surgical techniques, dealing with complex gynecologic diseases,…
We explored the association of the PPAR-gamma2 (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor) Pro-12-Ala polymorphism with endometriosis in a case-control study with 51 women with endometriosis stages I-IV and 55 control women without endomet…
Chemoattraction of macrophages into the peritoneal cavity is one of the important characteristics in patients with endometriosis. An inflammatory response is postulated to be responsible for infertility and pelvic pain associated with this …